While women and minorities make up two-thirds of the American workforce, they represent less than The survey cites poor schools, and lack of quality science and math programs, persistent negative stereotypes, financial cost and school and workplace bias.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

Doctor Nusslein-Volhard has said she hopes life will become easier for women scientists in Germany while Angela Merkel is the chancellor.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

While people of all ages are affected, women who are old enough to have children are especially at risk.

VOA: special.2009.04.14

But after the war, women were expected to stay at home and have babies while their husbands went back to work in factories and laboratories.

VOA: special.2009.05.13

At the end,two women had a sword fight while dancing to tango music.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

In general,fraternities are for men, while sororities are for women.

VOA: special.2009.09.25

The researchers say while exercise helps prevent disease, the only way that heavier women can lose weight is to simply cut calories.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

While more contraceptive options and devices are available today, many women are denied access to them.

VOA: standard.2010.05.12

So she says(In other words) while emergency contraception is effective for individual women, advance provision can't be expected to make a different in the community.

VOA: standard.2010.03.22

For five years, the three women have shared a house and their lives while serving in one of the most prominent and fast-paced careers in Washington.

VOA: standard.2010.08.07

But many women avoid taking antidepressants while they're pregnant because of safety concerns.

VOA: standard.2010.03.03

In her debut novel,"Try to Remember," poet Iris Gomez explores the challenges young Latinas struggle with to stay loyal to their families, while becoming independent women in modern American society.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

The day-to-day situation for many Palestinian women living under occupation involves supporting their children while their husbands are in prison, finding housing after their homes are demolished, and navigating their way through Israeli checkpoints.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

A camera only shows women's legs walking on high heels disappearing in the crowd, while an announcer encourages women to vote "independently" in the presidential and local elections Sunday in the former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

women making up more than half of the U.S.population while occupying only 17 percent of the seats in U.S Congress, and constituting less than three percent of Fortune 500 company chief executive officers (SPEAKING) Madeleine Albright, who served as Secretary of State during the Clinton administration, pointed to the challenges women still face globally in achieving the same basic rights and dignity as men.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08