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January 30, 2024 | Matteson Epstein | Politics
Why “Tampon Tax” Repeal Could Find Bipartisan Support

One gender-related issue that Republican caucusgoers seemed to align with liberals on? The “tampon tax.”

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January 29, 2024 | Riya Janardhan | Feminism
Women Are the Indian Space Agency’s Secret Weapon

The successful landing of Chandrayaan-3 has put India in an exclusive group of nations that have safely landed probes on the Moon.

WMC Women Under Siege
January 24, 2024 | Lorela U. Sandoval | International
Errand Girl No More: A Former Abu Sayyaf’s Way Out

It may surprise many that women like Farida — who once dreamed of being a nurse — would join a violent extremist group, but their reasons are varied and complex. And it takes a holistic state response not only to stop them from joining but also to pull them out.

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January 24, 2024 | Anika Sapra | Feminism
Family Heirlooms

With every generation, whether through leaps, bounds, or the smallest of steps, women of color push the parameters as far as they can, terrifying their mothers, who are fearful of what they will face as they do so.

WMC News & Features
January 24, 2024 Media
Following Other Black Pioneers in Journalism: A Conversation With Leona Allen Ford

This is the third in a series of interviews with women journalists of color excerpted from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “Women of Color in U.S. News Leadership 2023.”

WMC News & Features
January 19, 2024 | Carla Hay | Arts and culture, Media
‘True Detective’ Returns With Women-Centered Story, Featuring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis

Foster, Reis, and show runner Issa López shared their thoughts on the critically acclaimed season, which marks Foster’s return to series television.

WMC News & Features
January 16, 2024 | Janet Dewart Bell | Free Speech
Songs of Truth, Inspiration, and Rebellion: Black Women’s Speeches From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century

A new book, “Blackbirds Singing,” offers a collection of speeches and quotations from African American women who have fought back against their words being distorted, trivialized, and ignored.

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January 16, 2024 | Sarah Weichsel | Sports
Finding Empowerment Through Boxing

For me, what began out of curiosity and the search for a good workout blossomed into something that has encouraged me to grow more confident and demand more of myself than I thought possible.

WMC Women Under Siege
January 12, 2024 | Sara Cincurova | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Sex for Aid: The Ongoing, Invisibilized Sexual Exploitation of Ukrainian Women

After nearly two years since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the unchecked exploitation of Ukrainian women abroad — who are still displaced in different European countries, as well as internally, in Ukraine — is poised to create a crisis of sexual abuse and sex trafficking.

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January 11, 2024 | Ifeoma Okwuka | Body image and body standards
The FDA’s Proposed Ban on Hair-Straightening Products Containing Formaldehyde is a Step in the Right Direction

Black women are especially vulnerable to harm derived from hair styling practices.

WMC News & Features
January 10, 2024 Media
‘Working for [Indigenous Media] Is Like Coming Home’: A Conversation With Karen Lincoln Michel

This is the second in a series of interviews with women journalists of color excerpted from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “Women of Color in U.S. News Leadership 2023.”

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January 09, 2024 | Emma Farley | Feminism
Can Period Simulators End Stigma?

Period simulator challenges could help erase the stigma around a completely natural part of life.

WMC News & Features
January 03, 2024 | Barbara Findlen | Sports
Six Signs of Progress for Women’s Sports

While far from parity, women athletes continue to make strides toward greater opportunity, visibility, and inclusion.

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December 21, 2023 | Lauren Wolfe | Environment
Beauty Products Are Hurting the Climate — and Black Women

What do beauty products have to do with climate change? There’s the obvious answer: They are laden with petrochemicals that are produced from fossil fuels. But if you’re a woman of color, there’s a more insidious answer.

WMC News & Features
December 14, 2023 Media
‘How Do You Tell the Story ... If You Don’t Reflect This Country?’ A Conversation With Janelle Rodriguez

This is the first in a series of interviews with women journalists of color excerpted from the Women’s Media Center’s recently released report, “Women of Color in U.S. News Leadership 2023.”

WMC Climate
December 14, 2023 | Lauren Wolfe | Environment
When It Comes to Women, COP28 ‘Fell Short’

There was a lot of “calling for” this and that, with little in the way of financial or legal commitments for women suffering in the climate crisis. Even the “calling for” part was less than robust.

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December 13, 2023 | Emma Kanis | LGBTQIA
The Lifesaving Impact of Gender-Affirming Care

Gender-affirming care is crucial to supporting the mental health and lives of vulnerable trans and nonbinary youth.

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December 12, 2023 | Jessica Sennett | Arts and culture
The Power of Poetry for Teenage Girls

Poetry isn’t boring to me. It saved me; I wouldn’t be standing here without it.

WMC News & Features
December 07, 2023 | Neha Madhira | Free Speech, International, Media
Foundation Advocates for Afghan Journalists

The family of a slain Afghan journalist has founded an organization to provide resources and refuge to reporters still working in the country.

WMC Climate
December 07, 2023 | Lauren Wolfe | Environment
Making Feminist Climate Justice a Priority at COP28

As COP 28 continues in Dubai, women have a larger role in the proceedings than ever: Women’s participation in national delegations to the UN COP climate conferences rose from 30 to 35 percent from 2012 to 2022, UN Women reports. Yet this week, the organization has released an alarming report on feminist climate justice.

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December 05, 2023 | Kadin Burnett | LGBTQIA
Author Lindz Amer's Debut Picture Book Celebrates Gender Euphoria

On February 7, 2024, Amer will release their debut picture book, Hooray for She, He, Ze, and They! which likens the correct use of one’s pronouns to the aforementioned feelings of euphoria.

WMC Women Under Siege
December 01, 2023 | Irshad Hussain, Mubashir Naik | Health, International
Women in India’s ‘Widow Village’ Are Dying of the Same Disease that Killed Their Husbands

Villagers often work in the mines, one of the only employers in Budhpura, and nearly all of them are eventually diagnosed with silicosis, a fatal and incurable lung disease. With their husbands gone and no alternative income sources to support themselves and their children, widows join the same profession that killed their husbands.

WMC Climate
November 30, 2023 | Zikora Ibeh | Environment
The Forest People: How ‘Green Colonialism’ Is Hurting Indigenous Kenyan Women

Kenya’s Forest and Wildlife Services are carrying out brutal and forceful evictions of the indigenous Ogiek people from their homes in the Mau Forest, in the country’s Rift Valley.

WMC News & Features
November 30, 2023 | Fenaba Addo, Ph.D. | Economy, Education
Student Loan Crisis Falls Disproportionately on Black Women

As repayment has resumed for millions of borrowers, an expert on the student debt crisis considers the racialized and gendered nature of student debt

WMC Women Under Siege
November 28, 2023 | Jennifer Ugwa | International, Violence against women
Victimized by Tradition: Single Women in Nigeria Are Ostracized by Caste

In most present-day Igbo communities, caste ranking is a core concern for both families and couples.


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