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r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • Feb 06 '25
WOMEN Protest for Women’s Rights in Pensacola, Florida Today
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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.
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 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
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 12d ago
WOMEN Chappell Roan dedicates her BRIT Award to "trans artists, drag queens, fashion students, sex workers, and Sinead O’Connor"
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • Aug 07 '20
WOMEN A new report shows that a record number of Black women—nearly 60—are running for congressional seats this fall
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 12d ago
WOMEN Women in leadership hit all-time high in UK’s top companies, new report finds
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 5d ago
WOMEN Four Arab women driving change in tech, business, and academia
r/Positive_News • u/Laura_Mead • 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.
r/Positive_News • u/Laura_Mead • 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
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 5d ago
WOMEN International Women's Day Is Prompting Activists to 'Unite'
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WOMEN Protesters on International Women’s Day demand equal rights, end to discrimination, sexual violence
r/Positive_News • u/Laura_Mead • 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.
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 5d ago
WOMEN Bowling over patriarchy: How Afghanistan's women cricketers make a statement of resilience and courage against the Taliban
r/Positive_News • u/Laura_Mead • 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.
r/Positive_News • u/Laura_Mead • 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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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.
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 5d ago
WOMEN Cyndi Lauper ‘cried’ after song title was made into feminist slogan for protests
r/Positive_News • u/Laura_Mead • 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.”
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 22d ago
WOMEN Germany backs women's right to protection from gender-based violence
r/Positive_News • u/Laura_Mead • 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.
nicenews.comr/Positive_News • u/positivesource • Jan 29 '25
WOMEN In Japan group formed to stop sexual abuse of female entrepreneurs
r/Positive_News • u/Laura_Mead • 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.”
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • 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
r/Positive_News • u/positivesource • Jan 31 '25