National Geographic USA - 11.2019

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IN A DESERT TOWN in east-central Syria, two prisoners sat on the ground, guarded by about a dozen Kurdish men. The two had surre ...

themselves. Some mention a larger purpose that their male counterparts do not: They want to make life better specifically for wo ...

Women recruits, familiar with society’s stereotype of “the weaker sex,” often arrive doubting whether they’re equal to the task. ...

Women Men Officers Women Men 1970 27,948 215,971 217,564 1989 2019 Number of women in the U.S. military Army Navy Air Force 32 w ...

colombia REFUSING TO YIELD Despite efforts to end decades of guerrilla conflict in Colombia, secret mobile camps are still home ...

LEFT At a spot by the San Juan River where ELN forces were recuperat- ing and training earlier this year, several fight- ers rel ...

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Colombia This book is a romance novel, but ELN Coman- dante Yesenia also reads aloud to her river outpost compatriots from works ...

syria INDEPENDENCE WARRIORS For nearly a decade, the Syrian Kurdish resistance has made a point of includ- ing women among its f ...

THE LAST HONEY HUNTER ABOVE LEFT Lifting a child while working crowd control, a Kurdish security force commander, Sheikha Ibrahi ...

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syria Kurdish fighters sur- round a surrendering woman as ISIS aban- dons the town of Bag- houz in March. Women who joined or we ...

south sudan ARMED GUARDIANS Of the 19,500 United Nations peacekeepers helping protect civilians in the conflict-roiled new natio ...

THE LAST HONEY HUNTER ABOVE LEFT UN Chief Sgt. Jose- phine Muhawenimana (center), 37, survived the 1994 genocide in her native R ...

ILLUSTRATIONS BY LAUREN BREVNER The women in Pamela Toler’s new millennia-spanning history, Women Warriors, gallop into battle o ...

CYNTHIA GORNEY, BASED ON PAMELA TOLER’S WOMEN WARRIORS: AN UNEXPECTED HISTORY. MONICA SERRANO, NGM STAFF. KELSEY NOWAKOWSKI. SOU ...

An Ojibwa of the Couchiching First Nation in Ontario, Houska uses law and advocacy to champion indigenous people’s concerns, fro ...

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‘ KEEP WORKING.’ Katharine Owens is a 2019 National Geographic explorer who is focused on linking environmental science to polic ...