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- NewsYahoo Canada Style
People aren't happy with Donald Trump's International Women's Day tweet
While protesters were gearing up to march for women’s rights and gender equality on International Women’s Day, Donald Trump spent the morning sending out tweets.
- NewsYBN Style
10 fictional women in literature who are eternally enigmatic
The best literary pieces are eternal because the message they bring never dies or because the characters born out of the stories we remember, just as we would remember old friends. While some we never forget because they made us laugh or fall in love, there are some female literary characters whom we can never forget because they are eternally enigmatic. A door left to slam shut will not go by unnoticed, once we read Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain because it will remind us of Clavdia Chaucha
- NewsYahoo Life UK
To celebrate International Women's Day there's now a fearless girl facing Wall Street's famous bull
Ahead of International Women’s Day, a statue of a defiant little girl was placed in front of Wall Street’s famous Charging Bull statue in a bid to challenge the traditionally male environment in the finance industry. It was placed on Tuesday morning by asset manager State Street Global as part of a campaign to increase gender diversity in Wall Street’s traditionally male-dominated environment and call on the industry to increase the number of women on corporate boards.
- NewsYahoo Life UK
Forget craft and cake: 7 things you probably didn't realise about the Women's Institute
Because it was actually a meeting of the Peckham branch of the Women’s Institute. An influx of younger women has completely switched up the demographic of the UK’s largest voluntary women’s organisation.
- NewsYahoo Life UK
The problems still facing women in the UK today
No one knows this better than those in the US, for example, as President Donald Trump has recently reintroduced old restrictions on abortion funding. Similarly over here in the UK, as many fantastic women fight to influence policy, raise awareness and support vulnerable women all over the country, other kinds of change – whether that be austerity, internet culture or a lack of understanding – seem to be doing their best to hold us back.
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Why ‘T-Shirt Activism’ Is Bigger — and More Impactful — Than Ever
Who among us has not glimpsed a woman, at least from afar, proudly wearing a “Nasty Woman” T-shirt? Or a “Pussy Grabs Back” shirt? Or any kind of tee that speaks to and with the public, using style and aesthetics to signal the wearer’s insistent lack of complacency about a range of sociopolitical policies?
- NewsYahoo Canada Style
International Women's Day 2017: 'You are loved and protected. And we've got your back'
As part of Yahoo’s global coverage of International Women’s Day 2017, Yahoo Canada profiled women from various backgrounds and professions and asked them “What’s next?” What happens after Women’s Day — what would women like to see happen next in their personal lives, in their respective careers, and as a whole for females across the nation? Check out more of our International Women’s Day coverage here.
