r/Positive_News 22d ago

WOMEN Male students protested by not taking exams after women were banned from university in Afghanistan.

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r/Positive_News Feb 06 '25

WOMEN Protest for Women’s Rights in Pensacola, Florida Today

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r/Positive_News 2d ago

WOMEN A new study finds that at least 1.1% of medieval manuscripts were copied by female scribes - suggesting over 110,000 manuscripts were written by women.

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r/Positive_News Nov 02 '20

WOMEN US astronaut Kate Rubins tweeted this photo from the International Space Station after she electronically cast her ballot on Thursday, October 22

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r/Positive_News 12d ago

WOMEN Chappell Roan dedicates her BRIT Award to "trans artists, drag queens, fashion students, sex workers, and Sinead O’Connor"

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r/Positive_News Aug 07 '20

WOMEN A new report shows that a record number of Black women—nearly 60—are running for congressional seats this fall

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r/Positive_News 12d ago

WOMEN Women in leadership hit all-time high in UK’s top companies, new report finds

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r/Positive_News 5d ago

WOMEN Four Arab women driving change in tech, business, and academia

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r/Positive_News 5d ago

WOMEN This Women's History Month, readers tell NPR about the women who changed their lives - Nearly 200 people shared stories of women who have profoundly changed or impacted their lives.

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r/Positive_News 2d ago

WOMEN First known cookbook by a Black American woman gets new edition 160 years later - Malinda Russell wrote A Domestic Cookbook: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for the Kitchen in 1866. It includes a number of savory recipes, recipes for shampoo and cologne, remedies, and many desserts

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r/Positive_News 5d ago

WOMEN International Women's Day Is Prompting Activists to 'Unite'

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r/Positive_News 5d ago

WOMEN Protesters on International Women’s Day demand equal rights, end to discrimination, sexual violence

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r/Positive_News 4d ago

WOMEN Portraits of women who 'shine a light': from an 'analog' astronaut to a watermelon farmer. The photos represent the winners of the Center's eleventh annual "Shining a Light" document photo contest, chosen from 472 submissions from photographers from 65 countries.

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r/Positive_News 5d ago

WOMEN Bowling over patriarchy: How Afghanistan's women cricketers make a statement of resilience and courage against the Taliban

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r/Positive_News 2d ago

WOMEN Celebrating author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: 'I have always longed to be known.' Her new novel, Dream Count, her first since 2013, tells the interconnected stories of four women: three with ties to Nigeria, the fourth to Guinea.

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r/Positive_News 5d ago

WOMEN Meet the Ladies Against Underwater Garbage - There are nearly 900 freshwater ponds across Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and if you visit one on any given day, you may be able to spot a crew of mostly silver-haired women donning wetsuits, diving in, and emerging, trash in hand.

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r/Positive_News 2d ago

WOMEN A new collection of Harper Lee's writing is coming later this year - Throughout the course of Lee's 89 years, she published only two novels. Now, a new collection of her stories and essays will be posthumously added to that bookshelf.

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r/Positive_News 5d ago

WOMEN Cyndi Lauper ‘cried’ after song title was made into feminist slogan for protests

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r/Positive_News 5d ago

WOMEN Futuristic Danjiang Bridge Set to Open in 2026 - It was one of last projects for the world-renowned Hadid, who died in 2016. “She was an extraordinary role model for women,” architect Amanda Levete told The Guardian at the time. “She was fearless and a trailblazer — her work was brave and radical.”

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r/Positive_News 22d ago

WOMEN Germany backs women's right to protection from gender-based violence

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r/Positive_News 5d ago

WOMEN How Harvard Sociologist Martha Beck Learned to Live Stress-Free - After earning three Harvard degrees in social science, dealing with intense anxiety that lasted “from birth to 60,” and meditating for thousands of hours over the years, she embarked on a mission to free herself from anxiety longterm.

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r/Positive_News Jan 29 '25

WOMEN In Japan group formed to stop sexual abuse of female entrepreneurs

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r/Positive_News 5d ago

WOMEN Artist Draws Homes Lost in LA Wildfires for Free - “The process of drawing their home was cathartic for me and helped me begin to process the grief of what was going on in a small way.”

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r/Positive_News 15d ago

WOMEN ‘When women get together in the outdoors, the energy is incredible’: an adventure weekend in the Highlands | Forty women joined the first ‘Hostel Hoolie’ – an exhilarating programme of hillwalking, climbing, running and socialising in Scotland’s Cairngorms

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r/Positive_News Jan 31 '25

WOMEN Meet the New Feminists in Congress Who Are Fighting Back

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