British film director Sarah Gavron's latest feature film, "Suffragette," which opened in the U.S. Friday, and debuts in East Coast theaters this weekend, is a gritty period-piece about the English women who struggled for nearly 70 years for the right to vote.
Starring Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter and Meryl Streep, Gavron's film opens just as the 2016 presidential campaign is picking up steam with female candidates running in both parties. Written by Abi Morgan, the film focuses on the complexities of civil disobedience in the face of injustice.
BEIJING (AP) — China's ruling Communist Party announced Thursday that the country will start allowing all families to have two children, abolishing an unpopular policy that limited many urban couples to only one child for more than three decades.
The decision is the most significant easing of family-planning policies that were long considered some of the party's most onerous intrusions into family life and had been gradually relaxed in recent years. The restrictions led to an imbalanced sex ratio because of a traditional preference for boys, and draconian enforcement that sometimes included forced abortions.
