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From Three Blocks to Three Miles: Afghan Teen’s Journey to School

By Arifa ● Teen Voices ● April 13, 2016

Being driven away from school was devastating for third-grader Arifa. But when she learns of a new school she can attend, not even a three mile walk could stand in her way of completing her education.

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What Stand Will Hillary Take on Campus Rape Law?

By Ann Marie Cunningham ● Politics ● September 28, 2015

Some safety activists hail CASA, the bipartisan bill currently knocking around the Senate, as a means of curbing campus rape. But others see it as a dangerous threat to the rising and stronger protections of Title IX in this area. Will Clinton’s proposal take sides?

Student Debt Costlier When Degree Doesn’t Rank

By Maggie Freleng ● Politics ● September 8, 2015

A degree from where? It’s already well known that the student debt crisis is harder on female grads due to the gendered pay gap. Less understood is the hazard of attending a high-tuition, for-profit school that employers don’t recognize.

Laura Golakeh introducing National Security Advisor Ambassador Susan Rice

Hear My Story, I’m a Girl Who Got an Education

By Laura Golakeh ● Politics ● August 12, 2015

Education has done so much for me. It has made it possible for me to break the shackles of fear, pain and trauma and it has given me a new energy to give back to Liberia, my “crying society.” So many more girls around the world need this same chance in life.

Free Community College Opens Doors for Teen Moms

By Patricia Frazier & Por Alison Bowen ● Politics ● January 30, 2015

President Obama’s recently unveiled community college plan can help young women out of the predicament of choosing between their futures and keeping their babies, says this commentator from Youth Narrating Our World, the teen writing initiative of The OpEd Project.

‘Yes Means Yes’ Is All Wrong for Harvard

By Wendy Murphy ● Crime & Law ● October 29, 2014

Harvard Law students who say “affirmative consent” will make campuses safer from sex assault are off track. They should be doing everything they can to assert Title IX, the best law there is for victims of violence “on the basis of sex.”

Nigeria’s Lost Girls Part of Long-Term Conflict

By Corinna Barnard ● Politics ● September 5, 2014

Nigeria’s gender-based abductions began in early 2013, a report finds, after the government imprisoned wives of Boko Haram members. Since then, the rate and scale of abductions has increased, with Christian women and girls the main target.

Universal Pre-K: Let’s Step on the Accelerator

By Wendy McGee & Por Alison Bowen ● Politics ● August 13, 2014

A child care director can tell you what this means to mothers desperate to see their children get a foot forward on their lives and educations. “What are we waiting for?” she asks from her post at a nursery school in Denton, Texas.

‘SOS Campus Act’ Actually Won’t Help Survivors

By Wendy Murphy ● Crime & Law ● August 11, 2014

Why would Congress put into federal law the idea that campus-rape reporting can be deterred? Congress must stop messing with the essential idea that when it comes to redressing sexual violence on campuses, women have a civil right to safety and equality.

Fertility Push Viewed as Unsexy by Young Iranians

By Hajer Naili ● Health & Science ● August 5, 2014

Skeptics wrinkle their brows at the Ayatollah’s push for larger families and the government’s efforts to restrict family planning and provide incentives for childbirth. Iran’s youth want to be free, says a scholar of the Iranian women’s movement.