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Heavy Is the Burden on Japan’s Royal Women

Motoko Rich and Hikari Hida / The New York Times

A princess who will soon marry represents the third generation to suffer intense emotional distress in a country that often consigns women to rigid roles.

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The Apache Woman Warrior Who Helped Lead Resistance to European Invaders

TONY TEKARONIAKE EVANS / History.com

Lozen fought against Mexican and American forces for 30 years, earning the nickname 'Apache Joan of Arc.'

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More than 30,000 Polish women sought illegal or foreign abortions since law change last year

Rosie Swash / The Guardian

Tens of thousands have travelled to other European countries including England for legal terminations since near-total ban, campaigners say.

Pioneers and progress

Johnnie Walker Appoints Its First-Ever Female Master Blender

Jelisa Castrodale / Food and Wine

Dr. Emma Walker — no relation to the Walker on the Scotch whisky's labels — will take over for Dr. Jim Beveridge OBE, who has been Jonnie Walker's Master Blender for the past 20 years. In her new role, she'll lead a 12-person team that will create and develop other new variants of Johnnie Walker whiskies.

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Facebook and Big Tobacco’s common target: Girls and women

Karen Kornbluh / The Hill

Unlike Big Tobacco — which provides no public good and is the world’s leading cause of preventable death — Facebook and other tech platforms do connect people around the world, oftentimes for good. But Facebook has followed in Big Tobacco’s footsteps by targeting vulnerable populations to make money, in spite of information that doing so has been harmful and, in many cases, deadly.

Pioneers and progress

London Stock Exchange poised to list first company with all-female board

Kalyeena Makortoff / The Guardian

An investment trust focused on renewable energy due to float next month is understood to be the first company with an all-female board to list on the London Stock Exchange.

Pioneers and progress

She’s Making History in Opera. Can She Help Ensure Its Future?

Javier C. Hernández / The New York Times

“It’s a hard job, it’s a big job, whether you’re a woman or a man. I want to be seen just as a conductor.”

Where are all the women and men?

Percentage of women in state policing has stalled since 2000

Lindsey Van Ness / USA Today

Overall, women make up less than 13% of full-time police officers in the United States. As a national reckoning over law enforcement practices unfolds, research shows that women are less likely to use force, are named in fewer complaints and get better outcomes for some victims.