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December 27, 2019
Read here for the top ten moments of 2019 for women's rights and gender equality from around the world.
For the first time ever, women now outnumber men in medical schools in the United States. - Washington Post
Read here for NPR's list of women from around the world who took a stand in 2019, "women on the front lines of political and social change, women who sometimes quite literally put their life on the line to take a stand and to do their job."
Female empowerment has become a major theme of advertising but the workplace culture at ad agencies still remains heavily male-dominated. - New York Times
Click here for the 10 must-see Ted talks by women from the past decade.
Do women self-promote as much as men in the workplace? Read more at Harvard Business Review.
WATCH: "From marriage equality to trans visibility, this is how far LGBTQ+ rights have come this decade."