She photographed men dressed as women, circus performers, and even patients with severe mental limitations.

VOA: special.2009.08.09

Even as women's groups applauded the code as a way to combat the forced marriage of young girls and give wives more economic power, many Mali women opposed it as an attack on traditional values.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

And,wonderfully,women who had the sentinel node biopsy alone did just as well as the women who had the more radical operation."

VOA: special.2011.03.23

BeadforLife began as a chance meeting between three American women on a trip to Uganda and a local jewelry maker.

VOA: special.2010.06.28

The W.H.O.says pregnant women should take the antiviral drug Tamiflu as soon as possible after they show signs of illness.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

Four years later, as head coach of the women's Olympic team, she led the players to a gold medal win.

VOA: special.2009.03.20

In many countries, women are half as likely as men to use fertilizers to increase the amount of crops.

VOA: special.2011.03.22

Mount Holyoke College was the first college to offer women the same kind of education as was offered to men.

VOA: special.2010.06.27

Four years later, North Carolina State University hired her as the school's first full-time women's basketball coach and athletics coordinator.

VOA: special.2009.03.29

She believed that training women to serve as support pilots at home could free up men to fly combat operations overseas.

VOA: special.2010.11.08

But she wrote that women's roles decreased over time as the Cherokee people accepted the values of the larger American culture.

VOA: special.2010.04.09

They say the concern is that players might see the training room as not the place even for well-qualified women.

VOA: special.2010.07.15

A medical aid program in Kenya offers hope to women and girls suffering from a condition known as fistula.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

She met with twenty women that the widows' association had chosen as good candidates to take part in the program.

VOA: special.2010.06.16