This all-female skateboarding crew from Bolivia wears their Vans sneakers with their grandmas' polleras — colorful, layered skirts worn by the country's indigenous Aymara and Quechua people. They want to pay homage to their heritage — and call out the persecution of indigenous peoples.

"How dare they not listen to us?" says Yande Banda, 17. The gender equality activist from Lusaka, Zambia was frustrated when her and her fellow activists' remarks were cut short by the organizers of the Generation Equality Forum in Paris last week.

Of the 27 members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, only two are women. It's a gender breakdown that's echoed around the world. For example, 10 of the 31 members and advisers of the World Health Organization's Emergency Committee on COVID-19 are women, and of the 25 members of the WHO-China joint mission on COVID-19, 20% are women.

According to a data analysis released on Thursday by UNICEF, the U.N. children's agency, almost two-thirds of the world's children under age 1 — nearly 90 million — live in countries where dads are not entitled by law to take paid paternity leave. In these countries, this policy is typically decided by employers. For Jody Heymann, founding director of World Policy Analysis Center, the data draws attention to a glaring gap in expectations on gender roles. "To achieve gender equality both in the workplace and the home, it's essential for men to have an equal chance to be there with their newborn babies," she says.

"Feminism" was the most looked-up word in Merriam-Webster's online dictionary in 2017. We've profiled some extraordinary women in Goats and Soda this year who should be cited in the dictionary's definition. They pursued their goals in the face of poverty, war and prejudice.