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Year: 2022

The AP Interview: Japan minister says women ‘underestimated’

By MARI YAMAGUCHI and FOSTER KLUG Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s minister for gender equality and children’s issues called the country’s record low births and plunging population a national crisis and blamed “indifference and ignorance” in the male-dominated Japanese parliament. In a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press, Seiko Noda said the steadily dwindling

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Women candidates set records in 2022 midterms as gender becomes a primary theme in national discourse, research group says

By Clara Grudberg, CNN 2022 marks a record high for women running in gubernatorial and Senate races, but the total number of women running for the House of Representatives fell slightly from previous cycles, according to an analysis by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. While Republican female candidates broke records

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2 Black girls were charged with hate crimes after allegedly hitting a woman on a bus and making ‘anti-White’ statements, police say

By Amir Vera and Rob Frehse, CNN Two Black girls have been charged with hate crimes after the New York City Police Department says they assaulted a White woman and made “anti-White” statements, according to a Tuesday news release from the NYPD. The incident took place on July 9 around 6:50 p.m. on a southbound

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