Zimbabwe's maternal mortality crisis is pushing the debate on abortion, but the current economic crisis and stigma stand in the way of legalization.
There has never been a female winner of Formula 1 (F1) racing — the most prestigious category in the motorsport. But 13-year-old Juju Noda wants to change that.
School administrators can choose to be proactive in making their schools safer from harassment and assault, or they can wait for their students to force their hands. Either way, they’d be wise to listen to their students.
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.
In Sri Lanka, as in many other nations, women’s periods are taboo. While families celebrate when a girl bleeds for the first time, as she is seen to have come of age, every month from then on patriarchal values are applied to this natural cycle of life.
According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, two out of three girls are harassed and one in four girls are sexually assaulted by the age 18.
I recently launched the Instagram project @BeingDressCoded to create a space in which we don’t just observe individual stories about dress codes but can look for patterns and learn from a larger, collective story about sexism and sexual objectification.
Two years after the Hogar Virgen de la Asunción orphanage fire in Guatemala, which killed 41 teenaged girls, the truth is still coming to light, and it's far more sinister with every detail.
The next generation of feminists are being nurtured in Sierra Leone, and Moiyattu Banya-Keister, a Sierra Leonean educator and feminist, has created a safe space for this to happen: Girls Empowerment Sierra Leone (GESL).
A new documentary, Stolen Daughters: Kidnapped by Boko Haram, follows the lives of the 276 Nigerian schoolgirls who had been kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014. The film also features interviews with girls who had been previously taken from their homes by the same group.
As a peer educator at Sex Education by Theatre (SExT), a youth-led, theater-based sex education program, I have a place to express my thoughts and frustrations about the precautions my friends and I take when we go out.
We often think of girls at these ages as the “future,” but doing so denies girls the opportunity to meaningfully discuss their current experiences. Girls are very much a part of the present; they are changing the world right now.
The Safe Schools for Girls Project, created by Care International, takes place in 174 Rwandan schools after regular classes end and aims to address issues related to gender-based violence through education.
For years, autism in women and girls has been overlooked and underdiagnosed.
Girls marrying before the age of 18 are more likely not to finish their education, putting them at the risk of financial dependency.
Popular but vicious characters like Regina George in Mean Girls, the spoiled but well-meaning protagonist Cher Horowitz in Clueless, and ambitious, cunning Blair Waldorf (Queen B of the Upper East Side) in Gossip Girl are all as beautiful, wealthy, self-centered, and ambitious as they come. There’s also another trait they all share, however, a trait that seems to be a key element of the “popular girl” trope: signs of have an eating disorder.
When a group of schoolgirls from northeast Nigeria met trafficked women who were struggling to survive after returning home, they knew they had to do something. Now they raise funds to help those women launch their own businesses and rebuild their lives.
As I have gotten older, I have come to realize what a unique privilege it is to engage in outdoor activities that are often only available to affluent white people and, more specifically, wealthy white men.
On April 2, Lizzy Martinez, 17, was pulled from her fifth-period class at Braden River High School, in Bradenton, Florida and sent to the dean’s office—because her nipples were allegedly “distracting” other students.
Sexist dress codes are yet another way our society sexualizes young women and tells them that they need to modify their bodies to prevent other people's discomfort.
They are the hidden cost of Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war in the Philippines: single, teenage mothers whose partners have been killed by police or vigilantes. And without a job or government support, it’s near impossible for them to support their children.
For many refugee children, especially girls, paying for and staying in school is a challenge. This program in a Ugandan refugee camp is working to change that.
When the women of Rwandit village learned how much initiation ceremonies for girls and boys were really costing them—in terms of money and lost education – they radically reformed their traditions, giving women and girls more power in the process.
