In a year when an unprecedented number of female producers brought stories about women to the big screen, Academy Award nominations could include more women than ever — but still, few women of color are likely to be up for awards.
Men have only been surprised by #MeToo because they haven't been forced to confront the ways in which women’s lives are so frequently tinged with the feeling that they must defend themselves against men’s tendencies to sexualize them.
Winfrey recently made headlines for her incredible acceptance speech at the Golden Globes. In fact, many seemed to think the speech set the stage for the media mogul’s future presidential run.
On December 12, Merriam-Webster declared that the word of 2017 was “feminism.” Their choice highlights not only our culture’s struggle to define the word “feminism” itself, but the way in which the movement the word represents played out in the spheres of politics and entertainment last year.
Each year, hundreds of people—most of them women—have been killed for being suspected witches. Rights activists say raising awareness and investing in development can help stop communities from turning on their elders.
The U.S. federal minimum wage is just $7.25 per hour, and most states' under $9. Minimum-wage workers — more than two-thirds of whom are women — have made some gains, and this year their fight continues.
Those accused of misconduct, assault, and harassment have ranged from small actors to big-shot producers, but almost all were male. Almost, but not all: female singer Timothy Heller recently accused alternative pop singer Melanie Martinez of assaulting her.
Close to 50 military veterans, service members, and their supporters gathered outside of the Pentagon for a #MeTooMilitary demonstration today. The protest came just hours after Sunday night’s Golden Globes ceremony.
The one thing that characterized my childhood in the Bronx has been fire. Growing up there, it was clear that the borough hadn’t been, wasn’t, and perhaps never will be a priority for New York City officials.
Since her release earlier this year, Manning has been speaking about issues like gender identity and surveillance in the press and at colleges and universities. On November 15, I had the chance to see her speak at Wesleyan University.
While American women reach new milestones, including holding a record number of seats in the Senate, their representation in national legislative office still lags behind a hundred other countries, including falling two places below Saudi Arabia, which is notorious for its terrible treatment of women.
The first year of the Trump administration has been marked by attacks, direct and indirect, on the rights of people with disabilities, including the latest — a bill to weaken the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Despite the way they treated me, none of the individuals I served could take away the power I still had — power I earned — at work.
Now that we’ve made it through 2017, it’s important to remember how much the feminist movement accomplished this past year even in the face of political adversity.
Choosing journalism as a profession in Syria in the late 1990s was almost as unusual for a young girl as choosing to become a professional soccer player. “There were a lot of women studying media, but we already knew that we [would] not work as journalists,” said Rula Asad.
In trying to figure out what a feminist whose friend is accused of rape should do, I turn to the women who have already publicly responded to the men they know and trusted who were confronted with accusations of sexual misconduct.
Medeiros is the supervisor of the wrestling program at São Paulo’s Training and Research Olympic Center (Centro Olímpico de Treinamento e Pesquisa or COTP) in Brazil. She is also the first African-Brazilian woman to serve in this role.
22-year-old Tyler Bryant, a senior at Alabama State University and president of the Alabama College Democrats, explains the efforts many students made on the ground to mobilize young voters and black voters to help Jones win.
The Masterpiece Cakeshop case isn’t really about cake at all. It’s about discrimination. This case could potentially lead to legalizing discrimination against the LGBT+ community because a couple requested a wedding cake and was denied.
In three cases of undocumented minors needing abortions, the government has argued that merely allowing the women to physically leave a detention facility would amount to facilitating their abortions, even though no one is asking the government to transport the women to clinics or to pay for their abortions.
Banning these particular words silences already marginalized Americans — especially women.
How have advertisers responded to this year's shifts in gender politics?
While it is great that Brown’s case has been spotlighted, it is also important to realize that her story is symptomatic of a larger issue: the criminalization of child sex trafficking victims.
Despite the accusations of sexual assault and molestation made against Alabama Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Roy Moore, as well as the racist and anti-semitic comments he made — like his claim that America was great during slavery — nearly two-thirds of white women voted for him.
With hookup culture come types of behavior and a set of expectations perhaps just as repressive to college women as any of the traditional gender norms or societal gender roles entrenched in our communities and institutions.