“Believe women” has long been a rallying cry for #MeToo supporters — and a point of attack for the movement’s opponents.
Nearly 90 percent of people in 75 countries demonstrated at least one bias against equality—with 91 percent of men and 86 percent of women showing bias in one of the four areas studied.
Weinstein and Simmons accusers had an opportunity to speak out at a festival panel and react to Weinstein's conviction.
On Tuesday, the Arizona House banned transgender student athletes from participating on teams that align with their gender identity. All 31 Republican representatives supported the bill, which now moves on to the state Senate.
To this day, feminist zines are still a considerable presence in the zine universe.
The constant denial of women’s intelligence makes sense given how constantly the media celebrates men as geniuses while overlooking women who have done equally impressive work — or even the same work.
In the UK, toilet paper is considered a “necessity,” unlike tampons, which are taxed like a luxury item.
When it comes to reproductive rights, the United States is flunking. A report card from the nonprofit, Washington-based Population Institute has given the U.S. an F for the first time in the eight years it has graded the country’s record.
The new film by Céline Sciamma places equality at the center of a love story.
Plenty of research has established that there are major gender imbalances in male-dominated careers that make it hard for women to break into those fields. What is often less discussed, however, is men's underrepresentation in professions dominated by women, like healthcare, early education, and domestic (HEED) roles.
WanaData Africa is a pan-African network of almost 100 female journalists and data experts.
While Venezuela reels from its ongoing political and humanitarian crises, attacks against members of the press, and particularly women journalists, have become especially acute.
A young Tunisian YouTuber decided to tackle this topic, which is largely taboo in the nation, in a video entitled "Mekch Rajel,” which means "you’re not a man" in the Tunisian dialect.
Now that the UK has officially left the EU, the government has decided to overhaul its immigration system, and women are about to become the big losers in the process.
Despite citing scientific evidence, no sooner had my tweet gone live than a legion of angry twitter users, mostly men, came baying for my blood.
As of Monday, women will be afforded equal rights to men who serve, in that they can finally receive equal pay and benefits, achieve command positions, and make the army their career—rather than being forced out after 10 to 14 years.
Although media attention to the problem has waned, the harsh reality is that between 64,000 and 75,000 Black women and girls are currently missing in the U.S.
On Monday, January 27th, Tunisia lost one of its most prominent feminist activists: Lina ben Mhenni died at the age of 36 after a long battle with lupus, a chronic systemic autoimmune disease she was diagnosed with at 11 years old.
A shocking new report from Women for Refugee Women, a UK-based nonprofit, says one-third of women they interviewed who had been raped or sexually assaulted in their home countries have faced further rape or sexual abuse while destitute in the UK.
Consent, or usually lack thereof, is probably most frequently referenced in our society in cases of sexual assault. However, we must learn how to use consent as a tool in every relationship to identify problematic behaviors in any relationship in which there are different levels of power.
The report discovered that scripted crime television shows, which millions of viewers tune into on a regular basis, depict a false narrative about the unchecked heroism of law enforcement.
Some large art museums are starting to address the glaring underrepresentation of women artists and artists of color.
Nakate, who is the founder of the climate action groups Youth for Future Africa and the Rise Up Movement, confronted the publication on Twitter, writing, “Why did you remove me from the photo? I was part of the group!"
In a year when Latin America was swept with protests against gender-based violence from Mexico to Chile, the Encuentro de Mujeres que Luchan, organized by the Zapatista community, welcomed some 4,000 women to the Chiapaneco highlands to unite in transnational feminist solidarity and confront the global crisis of violence against women.
India’s government said early last week it thinks women are not fit to serve in ground combat roles—citing reasons that are embarrassingly regressive.