Countries like Spain, France, the UK, Argentina, and Norway have devised schemes that allow women to seek help without alerting their partners.
Experts say censorship of reading material in schools happens more than many people realize.
Nurses, nursing home employees, domestic workers, and caregivers have long been industries dominated by women, who have long been underpaid.
The loss of resources, support systems, and general safety puts survivors at risk of further abuse.
Among those who are most affected by this virus aren’t just people who have COVID-19, but the nation’s domestic workers, the vast majority of whom are women.
More documentary films by and about women are getting awards recognition and finding sizeable audiences. Here is a list of docs, released over the last year, that are available for streaming.
The coronavirus pandemic has led to a massive surge in child abuse material being uploaded, according to a story from the Fuller Project for International Reporting co-published with the UK Telegraph.
Cisgender people who have experienced gender discrimination are more likely to express empathy and solidarity with people who identify as transgender.
Almost six months since it was first performed, “Un Violador en Tu Camino” (“A Rapist in Your Path”) has become a universal feminist anthem that has crossed borders, languages, and cultures.
Despite composing less than 7% of world leaders, women have been spearheading some of the most effective policies in response to the rapid, global spread of the novel coronavirus.
Chinese American filmmaker Cathy Yan recently became the first Asian American woman to direct an American superhero film with the newest installment in the DC Extended Universe, Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn).
The COVID-19 shutdown is wreaking havoc on child visitations and family reunification.
Six Republican-led states are attempting to ban abortions amid the coronavirus pandemic by claiming that abortions are nonessential medical procedures.
It’s taken nearly 100 years, but the Land O’Lakes company has finally removed the image of a kneeling Native American woman—nicknamed “Mia”—from its packaging.
The film follows the young women as they travel from their small Pennsylvania town to Planned Parenthood in New York City so Autumn can have a surgical abortion.
While murder rates are falling in Brazil, femicide rates continue to steadily climb, and with President Jair Bolsonaro at the helm, there are no promising signs of the violence abating.
The disparate impact of the coronavirus on Black women is revealing and deepening existing inequalities. Fighting it requires an intersectional approach.
Recently, five teenagers in Afghanistan who make up an all-female robotics team developed a cost-effective ventilator that runs using the motor of a Toyota Corolla.
These three categories — sexual projets, sexual citizenship, and sexual geographies — comprise a radically new framework for thinking about sex.
In Mexico's northeastern state of Nuevo León, young feminists are creating their own safe spaces to share, bond and mobilize, and demand an end to the country's pervasive gender-based violence.
After a tumultuous two weeks in which abortion services were supposed to be operational yet remained inaccessible through Northern Ireland’s health service, the Department of Health said medical professionals were now permitted to "terminate pregnancies lawfully."
In a country not known for its empowerment of women—or for its health system—five teenage girls are tackling Afghanistan’s coronavirus outbreak head-on.
Low-paid women workers have been devastated by the displacement cause by the pandemic. Advocacy groups are rallying to help them.
As the economy continued to tank amid the coronavirus pandemic, job losses rose to more than 700,000 in the month of March—and women were disproportionately affected.
Young black children can perceive ourselves as unworthy, awful, and ugly. We see the racism in the world that sends these messages, and internalize it.