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.
Recent crackdowns have forced women activists to sometimes operate covertly, but they are adamant they will never stop raising their voices.
Is it a coincidence that Siwa’s invitation got lost in the mail at the same time that she has become a new gay icon for young children?
On March 25, the Islamic Republic of Iran began its four-year term as a new member of the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) — “the principal global intergovernmental body dedicated to promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment” — after being elected by secret ballot last year.
The proliferation of attacks on LGBTQ rights, abortion access, voting rights, and immigration have prompted activists to intensify coalition-building work.
Before Peyton Gendron, 18, allegedly shot and killed 10 people in a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket on Saturday, he posted a 180-page screed with the clear intention of killing “as many Blacks as possible.” But lesser publicized has been the fact that Gendron identified himself as an “ecofascist,” meaning he thinks people of color are taking up too much space on the planet, thus ruining the environment — and degrading his race.
If our abortion rights are taken away, who knows what other rights will be taken next?
“Hurricanes don’t care if you’re rich, poor, white or black — but that doesn’t mean that every person is equally vulnerable to a storm.”
Suffs, at the Public Theater in New York, does not shy away from the darker aspects of the suffrage movement, including conflicts among women.
According to a leaked initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Alito, the Supreme Court has voted to strike down Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision that protects a pregnant person's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction.
Treating sex as taboo isn’t helping anyone.
I implore you to look into what kind of high school health education your home state provides or doesn’t provide.
The future of climate change is here. Or at least it’s here if you’re in India. Or Pakistan.
The competition for the presidency, between the only son of a “strongman” and a widow, resonates with the enduring friction between a woman-centered native culture and the infrastructure of patriarchal political dynasties bred by colonialism in the Philippines.
In New York State, Roe v. Wade is codified into law. This is what Democrats must move to do federally.
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