women's news around the world

She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and a post-doctorate from MIT.AI is at an inflection point: it's increasingly acting on our behalf, taking on roles traditionally held by people. My hope for the future is to have more female athletes excel at their sport in order to represent Egypt well internationally. We need to be loud - there are few women who speak up because they fear the judgement of society. When people want to stop talking about the issues that black women face, trans women face, immigrant women face, we've got to ask them, ‘Why does that make you so uncomfortable?' Take the opportunity to stay on and persist. Megan is a vocal advocate for equality in soccer, taking legal action against the US Soccer Federation over equal pay, calling out racism by fans and has become the face of LGBTQ rights in the game.If everybody was as outraged about racism as those who suffer it, if everybody was as outraged about homophobia as LGBTQ players, if everybody was as outraged about the lack of equal pay as women, that would be the most inspiring thing for the future to me.Onjali Rauf was recovering from life-saving surgery when the idea for her first book came to her.Inspired by a real-life meeting between herself and a refugee mother in Calais, The Boy at the Back of the Class is a child's perspective on the refugee crisis and won the Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2019. Lisa Mandemaker is leading the team building a prototype artificial womb, in collaboration with the Máxima Medical Centre in Holland.It is hoped the wombs will replace incubators for babies within the next 10 years. Rwigara said the images were digitally altered and used by the government to discredit her. From black and white photographs of Saudi Arabia's female workforce, to a frozen flock of birds imprinted with the permission slip Saudi women require to travel. Most women who are sex trafficked in the US are branded with tattoos or scars and she has since transformed the tattoos on her own body. The young Sudanese have learned about their rights. They give us their vision of what life could look like in 2030. She founded Surprise Tropical, a food canteen serving healthy, takeaway food in the suburbs of the capital, Kinshasa. Based at Kyonggi University in Seoul, she has challenged the legal system, helping introduce an anti-stalking bill.She believes stalking leads to more serious crimes in many cases, where the majority of the victims are vulnerable women.As a forensic psychologist, I want the future to be a safe place for my children.Fei-Fei Li arrived in the US from China at 16 with no English language skills, working part-time in her parents' dry-cleaning business.Now widely credited as a pioneer of artificial intelligence, the former Google vice president co-directs Stanford's institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), which is looking at how to develop ethical AI. Then change will come, including legislative changes in terms of the rights of women specifically and Yemeni people in general.Self-taught screenwriter Kalista Sy's TV series Mistress of a Married Man sent shock waves through her home country when it was released earlier this year.Dubbed 'Senegal's Sex and the City', the viral sensation features sexually liberated, hard-working and successful female characters who address the struggles of women in West Africa, from polygamy to domestic abuse and mental health issues.Despite everything that women go through, despite all the mistakes they had to make, despite all the 'you can't do this', they know they can rise up, and be the best version of themselves - because the future will not be drawn without them.This summer, 22-year-old actress and director Bella Thorne released her own topless photos after a hacker threatened to leak them, saying, “It's my decision now, you don't get to take another thing from me.”Bella, who has just directed her first porn film, says the abuse of women online can only change if more female content creators are involved in projects that celebrate sexuality.The female future for me is finally having equality.

This year 100 Women is asking: what would the future look like if it were driven by women?From climate change activist Greta Thunberg, to trans woman Nisha Ayub who was put into a male prison aged 21, many on the list are driving change on behalf of women everywhere. (Fortune, 2005) Purity is a modern day 'senga'. Just days after she announced her plan to run for office, nude photos — allegedly of her — were posted online. She now studies football coaching and management, hoping to complete her degree in 2020.I have two dreams: one day to referee in the Women's World Cup Final and to get as many girls as possible playing football. I never limit myself as to what is possible as long as my body will cooperate. They now have 1,500 volunteers working across the island nation and South East Asia.She also initiated the #nostrawmovement campaign in the country, which saw the reduction of single-use plastic straws in more than 700 restaurants.Youth are the agents of change, and create change faster, whilst women are the agents in each household, who will make eco-friendly decisions for future generations.Megan Rapinoe is a two-time World Cup winner and co-captain of the US Women's National Team. Her actions have mobilised activists across the world, with millions of young people taking part in Fridays for Future.This year, she travelled by solar-powered boat from Europe to the United States - an epic journey undertaken to encourage others to reduce their carbon footprint. My hope for the future is that more and more people engage with the arts. I hope that humanity will wake up to a Greta-esque urgency for climate action.When Benedicte looked around the Democratic Republic of Congo, she could see plenty of raw produce from potato to passionfruit, but still people were living in food poverty.She says supermarkets were full of products originally grown in DR Congo, but exported out, processed with preservatives, before being reimported at expensive prices. I hope that one day we will have a female president.