Just last month, Saudi Arabia got its first woman cabinet member, Noura al-Fayez, the deputy minister for women's education.

VOA: special.2009.03.07

It is the story of a black woman's search for happiness and her true identity, during twenty-five years and three marriages.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

Today we tell about a woman who became famous for her activities in government, the media and the arts.

VOA: special.2010.08.08

The lead author of the research says he does not know if the shoe was made for a man or a woman.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

The woman of action was ordered to remain quiet for months in a dark room, or become blind.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

It's lonesome enough to live in the mountains when a man and a woman care for each other.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

said the gray-haired woman. "You see,I was nurse to the boy when it happened,and for years afterward I worked in the family.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

It was not unusual for the love of science to compete with the love of a woman.

VOA: special.2009.09.26

They urged her to become a music teacher, because they said that was the only good job for a black woman at that time.

VOA: special.2010.05.09

For example, genes direct formation of the fetus's brain at set times in a woman's pregnancy.

VOA: special.2010.03.23

In those days, it was unusual for a woman to be the head of a business.

VOA: special.2009.04.26

In time,Eunice's mother went to work cleaning house for a white woman in the town.

VOA: special.2009.10.04

Tom Ryder suggested bringing a woman into the camp to care for the baby.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

He always was concerned about money. For example, he would put on a jeweler's glass to examine the diamond on a wealthy woman he had just met.

VOA: special.2009.10.11

For the first time, a woman had crossed the Atlantic Ocean by air.

VOA: special.2010.05.26

When a baby's head is stuck in the birth canal for an extended period of time, it cuts off the blood supply to the woman's surrounding organs.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

Rachel Carson was the only woman to try for the position.

VOA: special.2010.03.14

The woman,Harriet Beecher Stowe, wrote the book for one reason.

VOA: special.2009.04.16

That's the number 12 followed by 12 zeroes,or roughly $40,000 for every man,woman and child living in the United States.

VOA: standard.2010.01.15

Irish authorities tie at least some of the suspects to another American woman who U.S.officials say tried to recruit people for the assassination plot.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

Semenya and the other athletes were invited to lunch by President Jacob Zuma who praised the young woman for her achievement in the face of adversity.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25