The climate crisis is destroying lives, homes, and livelihoods, but its impacts are unequal, harming some populations and regions with far greater severity than others. Shockingly, 80 percent of people displaced by climate change are women and girls, according to UN Environment.
The global adaptive clothing market is projected to be worth $348.81 billion by 2024, and women designers are among those leading the way.
Up to 7,000 Iranian schoolgirls have been poisoned in organized campus attacks in at least 28 of 31 of the country’s provinces, as reported by the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA).
Ecofeminism is defined by academics as a mix of political activism and intellectual critique that takes on traditionally harmful systems within both gender dynamics and the environment. It sounds complex, and it is. But its core principles are clear.
Women’s college basketball didn’t only breathe comfortably this year; it was triumphant.
Many argue that this “pick me girl" trend exemplifies internalized misogyny because she tends to bring other girls down to establish her superiority over them to gain male validation.
Everyone I have told about this proposed bill has looked at me and said, “No way,” or “I don’t think that’s right.” But this bill is very real and it’s very terrifying.
At the 2021 Climate Summit in Glasgow, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared that Canada “would take a leadership role in the fight against climate change.”
Despite what reactionary judges assert, forced birth does not result in significantly more infants being adopted. For too many of these children, their future lies in foster care.
We need to give students these lessons earlier so that, when they go to college, it’s not the first time they’re hearing it.
Lynette Medley is the founder and CEO of No More Secrets MBS, a nonprofit organization through which she has opened up the nation’s first menstrual hub and uterine wellness center.
In a sea of leftist groups often challenged by toxic masculinity, activist working-class women created their own space in New York.
Robin takes a dive into redefinitions of concepts we think we already know—from Buddhist nuns and kung fu to time itself. Special Guest: Debora Spar, expert on technology, future societies, and women.
It’s not often you hear the word “vampiric” coming out of a U.N. secretary-general’s mouth. But on Wednesday, Secretary-General António Guterres said at the U.N. Water Conference in New York that countries “are draining humanity’s lifeblood through vampiric overconsumption and unsustainable use” of water. Lengthy droughts are also wreaking havoc.
“The Postcard Women’s Imaginarium” is a project that uses women's artwork to offer an alternative narrative to colonial-era postcards that framed MENA women as “exotic.”
Italian politics are at a fork in the road with women leading the way on either side.
In February, Spain’s parliament passed a series of laws that brought many improvements to women’s and transgender people’s lives.
As countries continue to innovate ways to battle climate change, there is a new, related “slimy arms race” afoot. (Credit to The New York Times for the “slimy arms race” phrasing.) It seems that seaweed, in all its slippery glory, is a multifaceted, under-tapped, and potentially powerful weapon that can be used a number of ways in the ongoing fight to slow or stop global warming.
Online trolling, harassment, and hate campaigns targeting female journalists persist all over the world.
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.
When this day eventually advances to December 31st of the previous year, we will know that the barriers for women to advance in their careers have been mostly removed, disparities have been reduced, and parity in pay has finally been achieved.
As former President Jimmy Carter enters hospice care at 98, Robin delivers a tribute show to him, stressing his post-presidency activism and strong support for feminism, and highlighting their exclusive and extraordinary 2014 conversation.
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