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Young U.S. women are finishing high school, attending college and earning degrees at higher rates than men. A boys' educational crisis (of arguable extent), two-income families and rising divorce rates help explain the widening gaps, onlookers say.

Embattled Cambodian lawmaker Mu Sochua faces potentially dangerous fallout from her recent U.S. tour. But she takes home what she calls a promise by Hillary Clinton, an old ally, to investigate the country's human rights abuses.

The Brides' March in northern Manhattan is in its ninth year of commemorating the slaying of Gladys Ricart on her wedding day. Rita Henley Jensen says she joined the event to express sadness about two recent headline murders in her neighborhood.

October's movies offer an array of treats, including Drew Barrymore's directorial debut and an investigation into the industry of black hair care led by Chris Rock. For the biggest shot of controversy, watch out for "An Education," opening Oct. 9.

Crystal Lee Sutton, the real "Norma Rae," just died after struggling with her insurer to pay for medical coverage. Linda Meric says health care reform responds to Sutton's death and passing the Employee Free Choice Act will honor her life's work.

After sharing a Pulitzer Prize and authorship of two books with her husband, Sheryl WuDunn says her marriage and journalism are inextricably linked. In previous books the authors kept their identities separate. In "Half the Sky," they write as "we."

Months later, the killings are unsolved. But the families of 11 slain New Mexican women now have a burial site to decorate and visit. One father wants to change the way police respond to missing person reports.

India has one of the highest maternal death rates in the world and the country's improvement targets are way off-track. Health advocates say legal interventions can pick up the pace and save women from easily preventable death.

Abused immigrants need law enforcers to help them secure a protective U visa. But across the country, advocates say many police don't seem to have heard of them yet and some of their clients are improperly apprehended. The second of two stories.

Three female radio reporters in Bukavu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, have received death threats via a cell phone text message. That's spreading a chill in a city where three male journalists have been killed since 2007.

Tonight Women's eNews will honor 14 people at its first Philadelphia Leadership Awards. The honorees, one man and 13 women, are dedicated to improving the well-being of women and girls in the Philadelphia region and beyond. Here are their profiles.

For nearly a decade, visas that could help battered immigrant women were held up by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' failure to issue implementation regulations. Now the backlog is shrinking fast. The first of two stories.

Both sides of the abortion debate are riled up over the funding of abortion services under Obama's proposed public health plan. But as the battle heats up, a senator's effort at compromise casts doubt on the public option altogether.

During Infant Mortality Awareness Month, Kimberly Seals Allers would like to spur a public conversation about racial health disparities and reducing the pressures on black motherhood.

A minister caused a firestorm last month by calling on followers to pray to God to kill the president. Frederick Clarkson says now Neal Horsley, a man he's covered for the past decade, wants to take the minister's prayer campaign national.

The new nation of East Timor left its first U.N. women's rights inspection with a long to-do list. Lowering the world's highest fertility rate and raising the lowest rate of birth control access are tall orders in the strongly Catholic culture.

Rioters attacked and stripped about 20 Ugandan women who were wearing trousers last week during deadly riots in Kampala. The humiliations were part of a major confrontation between a traditional kingdom and President Yoweri Museveni's government.