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Throughout history until today, women have been shaping our world and connecting the community with each other in essential ways. Explore their crucial work and their inspiring stories.

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A girl playing in a fountain water at the park
In Santa Ana, a majority Mexican and renting population is heavily affected by pandemic. Advocates argue that the need to address the community’s lack of affordable housing and green space, crucial public health issues even before coronavirus, is now even more urgent.
Singer Linda Ronstadt belts out songs in Spanish from her "Canciones de Mi Padre" album at a 1988 Los Angeles, California concert. | George Rose/Getty Images
Linda Ronstadt is an icon in music, and she continues to use her fame to open doors for generations of musicians of Mexican American heritage and beyond.
Women Solar Engineers Transform Zanzibar Communities
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Women attending the Barefoot College in Zanzibar are learning solar power engineering.
Laura Chick Challenged LA’s Powerful Police Union
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LA City Councilwoman Laura Chick questions whether elected officials have done enough.
 Vice President-elect Kamala Harris speaks on stage at the Chase Center before President-elect Joe Biden's address to the nation November 07, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. | Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
The Golden State will gain a strong ally in the White House and new national influence with a Californian as Joe Biden’s second-in-command.
The Niagara River is seen west of the river on May 26, 2018 in Niagara-on-the-Lake and Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. | Photo by Patrick Gorski/NurPhoto via Getty Images
Autumn Peltier is passionate about granting communites acess to clean water. It's a cause she has been fighting for since she was at least 12 years old. 
Ruth Miller attends Brown University's first Indigenous People's Day celebration as a sophomore in 2016. | Nick Dentamaro / Brown University
Ruth Miller is a member of the Dena’ina Athabascan Alaska Native tribe who believes prioritizing Indigenous women’s voices in discussions about climate justice is crucial.
Xiye Bastida attends a CHOOSE US - Youth Climate Strike Demands Solutions And Action Now conversation with youth climate leaders at The New York Society for Ethical Culture. | Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images
Xiye Bastida is committed to helping create a future where climate activism is a space where people feel included and their actions matter.
Woman receiving a diploma at graduation ceremony. | Featured "Global Mosaic" Image
Women in Texas, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and everywhere in between are fighting every day to support the transformational power of empowering women and girls.
Mariachi Divas de Cindy Shea (top row), Leonor Xochitl Perez, Ph.D. (top row, sixth, clockwise) and Las Adelitas (bottom row, in red) in London at the International Mariachi Women’s Festival, July 21, 2018. | Eddie Sakaki Photographer
With mainstream exposure and a growing fan base, female mariachis are making significant inroads in the historically male-dominated music genre.
Panquetzani sits with new parents and their baby. | Samanta Helou Hernandez
Working informally is challenging for birth workers and herbalists, but they are an important part of community care that is lacking within mainstream healthcare systems.
Biddy Mason | Wikimedia Commons/Creative Commons
As an enslaved woman in the south, Biddy Mason was valued highly because of her knowledge in herbal medicine, but as a free woman in Los Angeles, Mason became a boundry-breaking midwife, nurse and philantropist. 
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