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LADIES WHO LAUNCH

In 2017, Judi Wineland sat in a tent with a group of Maasai women in a Tanzanian nature refuge, accompanied by an interpreter. The group compared notes about one aspect of the female experience that they all shared: childbirth.

“They don’t have access to hospitals,” Wineland, the CEO of the travel outfitter AdventureWomen recalls. “They told us how the midwife uses her hands and

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