Dalit women in India, who face compounded marginalization due to both caste and gender, are working across generations to make sure their movement evolves alongside the women it serves.
In early January, Taliban supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada quietly enacted the expansive “Criminal Procedure Code for Courts,” which effectively turns violence into everyday rule, patriarchy into official policy, and ideology into enforceable law.
“Their stories of abuse and sexual violence are heartbreaking. They are not surprising.” But there are existing models that create true accountability.
The creation of gender-segregated spaces to ensure women’s safety does not address the root causes of violence.
Through the decades, girls have consistently shaped the development of the music industry and have undoubtedly driven millions of dollars in sales.
Lessons from movements in other countries can help activists in the United States mobilize to expand access to reproductive rights and care.
The sheer size of this issue requires our federal government to come up with practical policies to regulate how young people can access social media.
In just three years, the number of book bans in the United States has more than doubled. A broad coalition of activists is working to slow the “relentless tide.”
When her music first started coming out, I never imagined that in the future, she would align herself with the MAGA movement.
A clandestine group of journalists are telling women’s stories from inside Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
I used to think grief was something abstract. I was wrong.
Isolated agrarian communities in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu were hard hit by the pandemic, experiencing increased poverty, the diversion of savings toward healthcare, and prolonged illness, forcing families to pull their daughters out of school and marry them off. Years later, attendance rates haven't recovered, and child marriages haven't subsided.
We deserve systems that sustain us, not rituals that help us endure being drained.
THE WOMEN’S MEDIA CENTER hosted their 2026 WOMEN’S MEDIA AWARDS on March 5th at Tribeca Rooftop in New York City. The WMC AWARDS were presented to outstanding leaders and champions for women in media. This year’s WMC 2025 Women’s Media Awards honorees were: Christine Neumann-Ortiz, Dr. Chandra Childers, Julie F. Kay, Margot Wallström, Maribel Pérez Wadsworth, Paola Ramos and Barbara Kopple.
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