Every country will have at least one female athlete after Saudi Arabia included two women in its team for the first time, setting an important precedent for women's rights in the kingdom.
They are here to raise money for First Choice Women's Centers, a group that presses women with unwanted pregnancies to forgo abortion.
While at first intended for younger women, Clinique says Chubby Sticks are appealing to older women including those in their 40s, who have been buying several at once.
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Ever the optimist, with the economy ticking up again, law school (at the first tier) may again become a go-to first career step for women who want to control their own economic future.
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With 1.7m more women than men convention went by the board: for the first time women's advertisements outnumbered those placed by men.
The result brought deeper and more personal insights about the assumptions and hypothesis of how to use workshops to establish lasting relationships with women, and ultimately ensured the successful launch of the very first Financial Planning Month for Women.
At Wharton, women accounted for 40 percent of first-year enrollment, at Stanford University, women made up 39 percent of the entering business school class and at Harvard women accounted for 36 percent of first-year students.
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The news of the Fort Hood case comes as the military prepares for a historic move: opening combat roles to women for the first time.
In 1950, the average age for urban Chinese women to marry for the first time was just under 20.
They also complained that the new law would strengthen supporters of the king by allowing members of the security forces to vote for the first time, and allocating three more seats for women from Bedouin districts.
For example, among women giving birth for the first time, there was a two-fold difference between hospitals with the highest and lowest rates of induction of labour (17% compared to 38%), emergency caesarean section after induction of labour (20% to 40%) and instrumental delivery (16% to 32%).
The Pill for the first time afforded women an opportunity to take control over their reproductive lives.
For the first time the women's race started half an hour ahead of the men's, partly to try and alleviate the problem of crowded roads.
When stated this way, it is not that the board is not looking for qualified men, it is just that they are looking for the women first.
Launched in 1998, the For Women in Science Award was the first international award devoted to women in science.
She is the founder of the The Prizm Project, the first human rights education organization for young women.
Fully one quarter of the list members this year are newcomers, including, for the first time, two women.
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According to data released by comScore, affluent males are now spending more online than women for the first time ever.
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The New York veteran who started the nation's first Veteran of Foreign Wars post for women welcomes them in elite forces.
In a general election in Kuwait , women for the first time were able to vote and run for national office.
Most eye-catchingly, enough of Kuwait's 385, 000 eligible voters shook off traditional habits to elect women for the first time since they gained full political rights in 2005.
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By the end of the seventeenth century, church membership in New England had undergone a startling transformation, with women for the first time finding themselves in a substantial majority.
With successful conclusion of this Phase III clinical program, LibiGel could be the first product approved by the FDA for women with low sexual desire, HSDD, a significant unmet medical need.
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Kati Whitaker's radio documentary No Country for Old Women is first broadcast on the BBC World Service on 1 September - check the schedule or listen again on the programme website.
Chin said that if she were to try to keep pace with the top women for the first half of the race, she probably would be so exhausted that she'd wind up walking by the end.
Started in 1985 in the ski-resort of Park City, Utah by actor Robert Redford, this year it has 57 world premieres and half of all the films in competition are made by women - a first for any film festival.
And for the first time, more young women than young men put career success at the top of their values.
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