Women in Jazz Festival Features Lundy, Carrington Lundy was introduced to the piano at age six, sang in her church choir, and studied opera at the University of Miami before embarking on a career as a jazz vocalist. She is also an accomplished compos...
Better Treatment for HIV-Positive Pregnant Women The World Health Organization recently issued new guidelines to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV. The recommendations include getting more women on treatment sooner and staying on it for lif...
Pinterest Website Draws Millions of Women Elizabeth Fraser likes to look at photos of dogs on Pinterest. Those of us who dont really have kids often will feel like our pets are our children, Fraser explains, and I think its really cute when people ha...
Securing Rights for Women Farmers Despite the large role women play in agriculture in the developing world, experts say they continue to face discrimination, gender inequality and a lack of access to credit. A global partnership is campaigning to sec...
New Internet Cafe Connects Afghan Women to World There is barely room to move as women crowd around laptop computers in this small cafe in central Kabul. The Afghan activist group YoungWomen4Change runs the cafe as a safe place where women can access...
US Aims to Empower World's Women Farmers Women face a number of obstacles that men do not. They tend to own less land and have fewer rights to that land. They have less access to credit and training. And they have less input in decision-making. With...
Health Report - A Way to Make New Eggs in Women? 健康报道 - 产生新卵子的新途径 This is the VOA Special English Health Report. 这里是美国之音慢速英语健康报道。 New research could raise hope for women who are having trouble...
Women on Carrier's Crew Find Navy Life Rewarding Lieutenant Megan Donnelly is one of the 770 women on board the Abraham Lincoln. She is one of the officers who drove the 97,500 ton carrier, as the crew puts it, out of the Persian Gulf through the Str...
East African Program Promotes University Education For Women In East Africa, there has been an historic imbalance in the number of men and women pursuing and holding posts in post-secondary education, with relatively few women at the university level...
Women Raise Profile in American Folk Music When people think of musicians in the American roots genre, Allison Krauss is one of the few female stars who comes to mind. For the most part, history remembers the men in old-time country, blues and folk m...