Yet this is anything but empowering to the modern woman. The Washington Post tells of women who freeze their eggs after painful divorces so they can bear children at a later date. Then there’s Aimee ...

(CN) - A Philippines Consulate employee lured a woman to the United States to work for her, then dished her off to people who put her to forced labor for nearly a year and loaned her out to friends, ...

"Immigrant number 96153. That's how my great-grandmother was cataloged, that was the number on her immigration pass." says Gaiutra Bahadur, author of the new book Coolie Woman. Bahadur set out to ...

A great-granddaughter assembles fragments of a lost history. They were recruited, duped, bribed, invited, and taken away from their families, aboard ships headed west. They were carried across the sea ...

A photo-essay tracing the forgotten migration of women indentured labourers from north India to Suriname through colonial ...

When slavery was outlawed in the Caribbean, indentured servitude took over. Host Michel Martin speaks with author Gauitra Bahadur. Her book Coolie... "Immigrant number 96153. That's how my ...

When slavery was outlawed in the Caribbean, indentured servitude took over. Host Michel Martin speaks with author Gauitra Bahadur. Her book Coolie... 'Coolie Woman' Rescues Indentured Women From ...