Gender inequality and stringent cultural beliefs left women most vulnerable to the HIV epidemic. With the coronavirus, Malawi mustn't repeat the same mistakes.
Sophie Beren believes that "from conversation, real change can happen."
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) doles out between $4 million and $10 million to controversial faux-abortion clinics known as crisis pregnancy centers.
Media coverage surrounding the 100th anniversary of 19th Amendment, observed this week, offers deeper and more nuanced understanding of the suffrage movement.
The pandemic has further revealed how workers in the global garment industry — especially women, who make up nearly three-quarters of garment workers — are sacrificed as economic collateral, and how fast fashion prioritizes profits over people.
How can we build on the strengths of our common experiences, while acknowledging our differences, to demand change?
Every hour, four girls under 13 are raped in Brazil.
While Colombian media covers stories of sexualized violence in almost exploitative detail, it fails to highlight the victims’ ethnicity and race, thereby following a long tradition of obscuring who in the country is disproportionately victimized, as well as hiding the underlying structural causes that leave them most vulnerable.
The 19th Amendment didn’t secure the right to vote for Native American women, despite their strong influence on suffragist ideas.
Due in no small part to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant shortage of poll workers across the country. Amber Berger, who lives in Menominee County in Michigan, tried her best to help.
The America of our history books is rose-colored, simple, and false.
While Greece has slowly begun to reopen, overcrowded refugee camps on the Greek island of Lesbos are still under lockdown. And without government intervention, experts and activists say that residents there are just sitting ducks waiting for an outbreak of the coronavirus to sweep through the camps like wildfire.
Despite the unfulfilled promise of the 19th Amendment, Black women have traveled an impressive distance over the last century, and continue to exert outsize political influence.
I used to hate “political” people. Today, I couldn’t be prouder to be one of them.
In early July, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of expanding religious and moral exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s birth control mandate.
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