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Women’s wages have dramatically increased the U.S. gross domestic product over the past three decades by the trillions. Also this week, female veterans experience more difficulties than men when returning to civilian life.
About 3,000 Iraqi female candidates are preparing to start campaigning for parliamentary elections, a record high. Also this week, the Senate rejected a bill to remove military commanders from decisions over the prosecution of sexual assault cases in the armed forces.
The Church of England may be a step closer to ordaining female bishops. Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to halt a Texas law that has forced more than a dozen of the state’s women’s health centers to stop providing abortion care.