The legal challenge against Turkey’s largest women’s rights group is suspected of having political motivations, appealing to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s conservative voter base while distracting from the country’s economic challenges.
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.
On June 1, Illinois officially repealed its Parental Notice of Abortion Act (PNA), which required the guardians of patients under 18 to be notified at least 48 hours before the patient received an abortion.
The paradigm for women’s health and psychiatry is certainly shifting, but centuries of medical misogyny will require years of thoughtful effort to undo.
The federal law that prohibits sex discrimination in education is broader than most people realize, and advocates continue to expand its reach.
Why is that fan behavior practically normalized for a fandom that’s stereotypically male, when “fangirls,” who do little more than scream at the top of their lungs as they wait outside of concert venues, are widely considered crazy?
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?
Masses of Chileans have insisted on undoing the legacy of dictatorship there and transforming the South American nation through a Constitutional Assembly
Author Judy I. Lin had known for years that she wanted to one day create a fantasy story that drew from Chinese and Taiwanese mythology.
Throughout the Caribbean, from Jamaica to Dominica, developing island countries are suffering the misery of climate change, and they are doing so disproportionately to wealthy nations.
A small number of organizations offer help for refugees’ psychosocial well-being — an often-overlooked but crucial service.
More than 216,000 women experience homelessness each night in the United States.
The worst part is that when the next school year comes around, I know more casualties and more pain and more headlines will arise, because our system allows virtually anyone to own a gun, and despite public sympathy and outrage for the unthinkable choices of the gunman and innocent lives of the students, nothing has changed.
While I am grateful that the legal system believed my account of what happened, I am still deeply hurt that the only punishment my perpetrator received was essentially a slap on the wrist rather than a jail sentence or other long-lasting consequence.
A documentary and a dramatic film give a chilling portrait of the crushing impact of abortion bans — and of the courageous women who provided abortion care in pre-Roe Illinois.
A girl could have the most attentive parents and teachers she could ask for and still suffer from ADHD unnoticed by them.
Regardless of the outcome of the appeal, the law has already had a positive effect.
The HPV vaccine will be added to the list of routine free immunizations given to girls in secondary school.
Using funds from her own pocket, one retired schoolteacher has been providing free education for children in one Indian slum for the last 13 years.
On April 11, the trial in a defamation lawsuit between actress Amber Heard and actor Johnny Depp began in Virginia.
Climate change and inequality are locked in a perverse loop: Impoverished areas are home to pollutive NIMBY industries that release the gases that lead to more climate change, which in turn adversely affects these communities more than any other.
Dspite widespread use among college students, the pill is not the symbol of freedom it was once assumed to be.
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