Period simulator challenges could help erase the stigma around a completely natural part of life.
While far from parity, women athletes continue to make strides toward greater opportunity, visibility, and inclusion.
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.
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.”
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.
Gender-affirming care is crucial to supporting the mental health and lives of vulnerable trans and nonbinary youth.
Poetry isn’t boring to me. It saved me; I wouldn’t be standing here without it.
The family of a slain Afghan journalist has founded an organization to provide resources and refuge to reporters still working in the country.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As repayment has resumed for millions of borrowers, an expert on the student debt crisis considers the racialized and gendered nature of student debt
In most present-day Igbo communities, caste ranking is a core concern for both families and couples.
The recent earthquakes in western Afghanistan and ongoing aftershocks have been devastating.
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.
Chloe Domont’s film is not just a story about terrible people doing terrible things — it’s also a commentary on the danger of abusive work cultures that dehumanize the people in them.
As a 16-year-old teenage girl, it seems that ever since those disgusting revelations were made public, social media pressure hasn’t abated but has, in fact, grown even worse for my friends and me.
Despite early hopes for progress, the report that came out of the gathering mentioned neither LGBTIQ+ people nor the question of the ordination of women.
On Tuesday, officials in Florida’s Miami-Dade County rejected a bill that would have created the first county-level workplace heat protections in the United States. In the face of our ever-increasing climate challenges, such regulations can save lives. But there are few laws in place around the world that protect people who work outdoors, let alone dedicated offices to protection from heat.
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