“The take-home message is clear: We need more women in office to solve our environmental challenges,” said Fern Shepard, the president of Rachel's Network, which issued the new report.
Roll Red Roll, a new documentary directed by activist Nancy Schwartzman, explores the enduring cultural implications of the Steubenville High School rape case by focusing on the role social media played in it.
Despite the ever-growing preponderance of evidence that Trump is, indeed, the sexual predator that he revealed himself to be in the Access Hollywood tape, he has yet to face any consequences for his alleged actions.
The College Student Right to Access Act would make sure that once a student has decided to end a pregnancy, they won’t be forced to go off campus to see a provider they don’t know.
There is still too much focus on men's fears of false accusations and not enough on the serious effects of sexual harassment and assault.
This exposure to other women in the field helped me realize that I could embrace every authentic part of myself and still succeed. In fact, I realized that in order to succeed professionally, the level of harshness I had adapted in my attempt to be more masculine was actually damaging.
Our culture still does not accept “American” as a full identity, especially to those who look ethnically ambiguous or nonwhite. Your Americanism is less likely to be questioned if you resemble the white English immigrants who settled in New England in the 17th century. But otherwise, immigrants and their children who have lived in this country for years are still viewed as foreign.
Kenyan women and girls rarely get information about abortion at all because our society is heavily influenced by conservative religious beliefs. There is no sex education in the Kenyan education system, and religion seeps into classes like biology; Kenyan students are taught in their schools that abortion is evil and against God’s will.
Lockey is part of Open Bionics’ arms project, which employs cutting-edge 3D printing technology to make bionic arms.
We talk a lot about sexism in entrepreneurship, but it’s important to recognize the intersection of race and gender privilege in the space as well.
Alicia Garza, the principal and co-founder of the Black Futures Lab, is determined to flip the where candidates talk about Black communities, but don't talk to them—beginning with "the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction."
In the increasingly competitive world of YouTube, few women are among the top earners — and the problem seems to be getting worse.
Her adaptation of the film — the eighth — will not only highlight the feminist understones already present in the novel, but also examine the text with a modern eye, drawing on society’s increased sensitivity to gender fluidity.
Recent months have brought to light the arbitrary arrests of women in Abuja nightclubs on erroneous charges of prostitution. During arrest as well as in police custody, women have reported rape and sexual and physical assault by officers.
Many assumed the famously red-headed Ariel would remain as such in the live action version, and Halle Bailey clearly does not fit that image. Shortly after Bailey was cast, #NotMyAriel started trending on Twitter.
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