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Ashton Lansdell of the Los Angeles Queens bats during the Women’s Professional Baseball League Opening Day game against the New York Heights on Aug. 1, 2026, in Springfield, Ill. Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images

The Women’s Professional Baseball League is betting that women’s baseball has a future in the US

What will it take for the league to survive, expand and carve out its own identity in an increasingly saturated pro sports landscape?
Greater access to broadband could cut the time women wait in line. Colin Anderson Productions pty ltd/DigitalVision via Getty Images

American women in communities with ample broadband access lose less time waiting for services, reducing time poverty

Making broadband affordable and training people how to best use it are also key to saving time.
Afghan schoolgirls pose for a photo in a classroom in Kabul, Afghanistan, in December 2022. The Taliban ordered women nationwide to stop attending private and public universities until further notice. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

I lived through the first Taliban girls’ school ban — watching it happen again is heartbreaking

The author was banned from school by the Taliban as a girl in 1996. Years after the Taliban returned to power in 2021, she asks why the international community’s response has fallen so short.
Afghan schoolgirls pose for a photo in a classroom in Kabul, Afghanistan, in December 2022. The Taliban ordered women nationwide to stop attending private and public universities until further notice. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

I lived through the first Taliban girls’ school ban — watching it happen again is heartbreaking

The author was banned from school by the Taliban as a girl in 1996. Years after the Taliban returned to power in 2021, she asks why the international community’s response has fallen so short.
Adolescence is when desire itself is shaped, and unequal experiences for girls during this period can have lasting effects on sexual comfort, confidence and interest. (Unsplash)

Learned, not broken: Why we need to fix the pleasure gap, not women’s libido

Women’s changing libido has been treated as biological fact — the product of evolution or hormonal destiny. But differences in sexual experience early on can have a real and lasting impact.
The linguistic debates about the creation of humans, which shaped whether the word ‘mankind’ was understood to include women, emerged from the two very different creation accounts in the Book of Genesis. (Unsplash)

When ‘man’ didn’t mean humanity: How language excluded women for centuries

Language that fails to explicitly name women has historically excluded them. And that exclusion is an active, reversible mechanism that’s now resurfacing.
People are often concerned about environmental risks lurking near their homes. Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

Research about global fishing shows value of detailed environmental data, which the Trump administration seeks to limit

Detailed data is useful for understanding and addressing environmental effects on people’s lives in ways that become difficult or impossible if only the broadest and blurriest picture is developed.
The International Day of Women in Diplomacy celebrates the drivers of global change, bridging parliaments and international platforms through inclusive leadership who are still largely underrepresented. (Statue of Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, Washington D.C.) Tinnaporn Sathapornnanont/Shutterstock

Where do women feature in the history of diplomacy?

What grants influential women visibility and diplomatic status? Women in Diplomacy day on June 24 is an opportunity to consider how female-led efforts are recognised, valued and remembered.

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