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(NEW YORK) — Just how much of a setback was the COVID-19 pandemic for U. S. working women? Although women who lost or left their jobs at the height of the crisis have largely returned to the workforce, a recent finding points to the price many paid for stepping back: In 2023, the gender wage gap between men and women working full-time widened year-over-year for the first time in 20 years, according to an annual report from the U.

(CAPE TOWN, South Africa) — Months of drought in southern Africa triggered by the El Niño weather phenomenon have had a devastating impact on more than 27 million people and caused the region’s worst hunger crisis in decades, the United Nations’ food agency said Tuesday. The World Food Program warned it could become a “full-scale human catastrophe.” [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Five countries — Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe — have declared national disasters over the drought and resultant hunger.

I’ll never forget the day I met Lilly Ledbetter for the first time. It was at a White House event in 2016 commemorating the seventh anniversary of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. The law, the first that Barack Obama signed as President, expanded the rights of employees to challenge pay discrimination.

A woman who was in an eight-year online relationship with a man who turned out to be her female cousin is hoping Sweet Bobby, her new documentary out Oct. 16, will empower other victims of catfishing to seek help. Kirat Assi, who was in a years-long fake relationship with a man she believed to be named Bobby, adapted Sweet Bobby from her hit 2021 podcast about the ordeal.

“There’s no making it,” says Nicola Coughlan. “You just have to keep going and can’t rest on your laurels.” It was at 19, Coughlan tells TIME in our most recent cover story, that she decided to pursue a career in acting. It has taken her nearly two decades to reach her current peak, delivering for Netflix the sixth most watched season of television in the streamer’s history with the most recent installment of Shonda Rhimes’ Bridgerton.

Concern is mounting regarding the health of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who has spent over a year in a squalid prison cell on a slew of charges his supporters insist are politically motivated. On Tuesday, Khan’s ex-wife, British socialite Jemima Khan, posted on X that the couple’s sons had been barred since Sept.