While women’s inheritance and property ownership are protected by the Lebanese Constitution, inheritance laws differ based on religion and sect, leaving disputes to religious courts and personal interpretations — and biases — of those laws
True equality has been and continues to be denied to women. We know because we recently experienced it as participants in the first co-ed Boys and Girls State program.
The Inclusion List, a first-of-its-kind resource, ranks creators based on cast and crew inclusion.
Currently, 18 states ban trans girls from participating in girls’ sports. Often framed as offering “fairness” or “protection,” these insidious laws actually harm all women.
We still have a long way to go toward reaching equality in politics.
As men migrate north to the United States in search of better lives for their families, the women left behind are taking on many new community responsibilities once occupied by their husbands.
Across South Asia, women praying in mosques is considered a taboo, but a group of Muslim women from all across India are working to challenge those biases and increase women’s access to mosques.
The new report, from the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education, marking the 50th anniversary of Title IX, affirms the breadth and scope of the antidiscrimination law.
The federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in education is broader than most people realize, and advocates continue to expand its reach.
Next week marks the 50th anniversary of Title IX, the landmark legislation prohibiting sex discrimination in U.S. schools. How close are we to realizing its promise?
The documentary, which shows the “blood, sweat, and tears” of the team’s fight for pay equity, is being used as a vehicle for change.
The UN Generation Equality Forum builds on the promise of the Beijing Conference of 26 years ago.
Child care has been an issue in this country for years.
A wave of anti-LGBTQ state laws, and the recent Fulton Supreme Court ruling, show the need for the federal civil rights law that is awaiting Senate action.
The obvious, enduring inequities between men’s and women’s college basketball were spotlighted last month when a 37-second video filmed by Oregon forward Sedona Prince went viral.
The lack of television coverage of female athletes creates an illusion that there is not a significant number of female athletes worthy of admiration — that they are failing — when in fact, there are many who are very successful.
Salman’s hypocrisy has been apparent all along.
Media coverage surrounding the 100th anniversary of 19th Amendment, observed this week, offers deeper and more nuanced understanding of the suffrage movement.
This week’s Bostock decision creates stronger legal ground for more wins in housing, education, and health care, and in overturning the transgender military ban.
These writers keep working, and all of them told The FBomb that more amazing stories about amazing women are coming soon.
Pandemic-related lockdowns disproportionally burden women. By asking the right questions, policymakers can create policies that alleviate that burden.
Nurses, nursing home employees, domestic workers, and caregivers have long been industries dominated by women, who have long been underpaid.
Cisgender people who have experienced gender discrimination are more likely to express empathy and solidarity with people who identify as transgender.
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.