A federal lawsuit argues that restricting assignments violates the constitutional rights of women.

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2 Women Sue Over Army’s Combat Ban

Lincoln’s Casey Stoney is picked as the new England women’s captain after Faye White’s retirement.

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Stoney named as England captain

A serial rapist is given a lifelong restriction order for attacking women across Scotland over a 15-year period.

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Lifelong order for serial rapist

The Mexico-US trade in women that makes men rich

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Trafficked: Sex slaves seduced and sold

Orange announces that it is ending its 17-year sponsorship of The Women’s Prize for Fiction.

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Orange pulls out of fiction prize

Women in their early 40s should be given access to IVF on the NHS, draft guidelines for England, Wales and Northern Ireland recommend.

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IVF age limit ‘should be raised’

When George Washington University’s Class of 2012 marched across the Mall to accept its degrees Sunday morning, the nation’s back yard was transformed into an eco-fashion runway. Sure, the men wore dress shirts and slacks while the women donned colorful spring dresses and shoes that wouldn’t sink in soft soil. But on top of these outfits, each GWU student sported the newest trend: gowns made from plastic bottles. Read full article > >

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Green graduations at Washington area universities

A royalist County Durham teashop owner throws three women out after they refuse to stand for the national anthem.

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Trio thrown out of royal tearoom

A royalist County Durham teashop owner throws three women out after they refuse to stand for the national anthem.

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Trio thrown out of royal tearoom

REAUTHORIZING THE Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is a critical task that merits thoughtful attention. It’s distressing — even sickening — that debate about this landmark law has devolved into one more election-year grudge match between Democrats and Republicans shamelessly using gender to try to score political points. Read full article > >

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Editorial Board: Gender politics in Congress

Opened driving school for women in Kabul.

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Afghan Woman Wants Driving Rights

More than 2,000 female members of the Church of England sign a petition opposing the ordination of women bishops.

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Women oppose female bishops move

Palisades Park administrators say they rejected a request to remove a plaque in memory of “comfort women” forced into sexual slavery in World War II.

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Monument in Palisades Park, N.J., Irritates Japanese Officials

Leith Anderson and Lynne Hybels says a new House version of the Violence Against Women Act erodes protections from abuse for immigrant women.

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Opinion: Save immigrant women in U.S.

Leith Anderson and Lynne Hybels says a new House version of the Violence Against Women Act erodes protections from abuse for immigrant women.

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Opinion: Save immigrant women in U.S.