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To The Contrary is an all-female news analysis series that provides diverse perspectives on issues relating to women, families and communities of color.

Joined August 2010
In a 60 second Nike ad released minutes after the women won the World Cup, it shows how the women's soccer team is winning on and off the field buff.ly/2S1eRuN
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2020 Democratic candidate Kamala Harris announces a new plan to help close the US racial wealth gap if elected as president buff.ly/2YG8GyT
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Fans start cheering "equal pay" after the US women's national team team won their fourth world cup. Now, famous figures are joining them in this chant in their fight for equality buff.ly/2Jmaho7
"It is dangerous just to be a woman" Women in Honduras are fighting back against being victims in a country with the highest rates of sexual violence in Latin America buff.ly/2NV3TZx
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The "Edinburgh Seven", 7 women who were among the first to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh in 1869, were given posthumous degrees after the women were unable to graduate due to resistance from their male peers buff.ly/2YAzS1X
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After helping lead her team to back to back Women' World Cups, Megan Rapinoe shines as a new kind of American Hero buff.ly/2KWzbfV
Alipay pledges to invest $145 million in China’s national women’s soccer team for the next decade. Money will go towards initiatives like performance improvement and the development of young players. buff.ly/2YFGwnp
Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, whom Trump has known for 15 years and referred to as a "terrific guy" by Trump in a New York magazine in 2002 was arrested and charged of sex trafficking underage girls between 2002-2005 in New York on Monday.
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The European Central Bank has a new president. Christine Lagard beginning her new executive position says, "if it had been Lehman Sisters rather than Lehman Brothers, the world might well look a lot different today." buff.ly/2XoFwCG
Author, journalist, and social activist Caroline Criado Perez discusses her new book about the gender data gap. buff.ly/2YuQsjw
Behind the viral photo of the women who could be the first "Madam President" buff.ly/2RZWDdf
Why aren't college-educated women getting their share? buff.ly/2J3v53I
Ruth Bader Ginsburg looks back at the state of women's equality at a Georgetown University event. buff.ly/2Xouan1