JOHNSON CITY, Tenn (WJHL) – As day 13 of Russia’s war on Ukraine draws to a close, 2 million refugees have fled the war-torn country, with 42 million citizens staying behind. Some are known to Nelly ...

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Jennifer Greenburg has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Association of American Geographers, Stanford University, the Watson Institute ...

Two female soldiers, K and Y – who serve in this capacity – are among the women making a significant impact on the front lines. In a world where combat roles in the military are still largely ...

Women react as they attend a rally of relatives of Ukrainian Marines who defended the Azovstal and are prisoners of war, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine January 6, 2025.

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These newly assumed positions have had positive impacts on gender dynamics and women’s position in society. The “cult of berehynia”, the notion of Ukrainian women as the home protectress, has weakened ...

When the Pentagon opened combat roles to women in 2015, many assumed the debate on full sex integration in the U.S. military was over. But Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth’s March 12 order to review ...

In a dusty yard on the outskirts of the Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui, a group of women sit together. They meet here every week to check on each other and to discuss their problems and ...

Meet the women who were the “secret weapon” that won the war and changed the world in the process. Meet the American women who built the planes and flew them, fought on the warfront and the home front ...

IN the first days of September 1939, in every village of France, the women gazed at the corn stacks, stretching in neat rows across the distant fields. And in each woman’s mind was the same thought: ...

Connecticut has a deep history with the Revolutionary War. Plenty of tales detail battles and bloodshed between colonial men and their British enemies, but what about the women? WSHU’s Molly Ingram ...