Welcome to Decoding Women's Health. I'm Dr. Elizabeth Pointer, chair of Women's Health

and Gynecology at the Atria Health Institute in New York City. I'll be talking to top researchers

and clinicians and bringing vital information about midlife women's health directly to you.

A hundred percent of women go through menopause. Even if it's natural, why should we suffer

through it? Listen to Decoding Women's Health with Dr. Elizabeth Pointer wherever you get your

podcasts. Malcolm Gladwell here. This season on Revisionous History, we're going back to the

spring of 1988 to a town in northwest Alabama, where a man committed a crime that would spiral out of control.

There was this joke that said that it was easier to get forgiveness in the Church of Christ for murdering somebody than it was to be divorced.

From Revisionist history, this is the Alabama murders. Listen to revisionist

history, the Alabama murders, wherever you get your podcast. Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, foreign

policies editor-in-chief. This is FP Live. Our women's rights on the decline?

Looking at the headlines from around the world, it might seem so.

There's the global decline in democracy, the overturning of abortion rights in the United

States, and the continuing underrepresentation of women in top leadership roles.

Well, my guest this week says those setbacks are real, but they're also inspiring a fightback.

In an essay in foreign policy last month, Lyric Thompson documented how countries such as Mexico, Chile, Spain, Liberia, and Mongolia are all taking concrete steps to expand

women's rights and cement gender equality. Thompson is the founder and CEO of the Feminist

Foreign Policy Collaborative. You will hear us talk about some of the positive trendlines for once

and also what a feminist foreign policy is and why

countries should think about it. A programming note, I'm skipping my usual one thing this week,

I promise. That is not just a Thanksgiving gift to myself, but also because we've already

dropped our AMA episode earlier in the week, And that is packed full of not just one thing

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