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.
Texas State Representative Donna Howard has watched the political tides shift firsthand.
Haenyeo — female divers in South Korea — clad in wetsuits and occasionally pink-ringed eye masks, free-dive without oxygen for a minute at a time, hoping to harvest sea cucumbers, conchs, and abalones.
Sanitation work in India still involves illegal manual labor, with as many as 1.3 million Indians from certain caste groups employed as 'manual scavengers,' who load waste onto baskets or metal troughs to carry off for disposal. Not only is the work detrimental to their long-term health, but it’s also a cause for inhumane discrimination, which not only affects how they’re treated out in society but also their pursuit of alternative livelihoods.
It was not easy for 21-year-old Mehak to convince her parents to support her dream of becoming a rapper.
Burton’s take is unique in that it explores Medusa as a teen girl who must reinvent herself to survive.
Amy Coney Barrett and other members of the Supreme Court have shown outrageous disregard for the real impact of pregnancy.
Camps for internally displaced persons in conflict-rift states in Nigeria have been known to provide fertile ground for trafficking.
A 13-year-long nightmare finally ended for pop icon Britney Spears on November 12 when a Los Angeles court terminated the conservatorship that had controlled Ms. Spears’ life since she was 26.
As federal funding for struggling renters runs low, 12 million people are at risk of losing their housing.
The FBomb had the chance to chat with J. Elle over email about Ashes of Gold, creating the stories you want to read, and the reason she finds Rue so inspiring.
Friday, December 17, was deemed “National School Shooting Day” by various anonymous TikTok accounts, which encouraged viewers to incite violence at their schools, including shootings and bombings.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's "heavy-handed and punitive" — and exceedingly militarized — pandemic strategy largely accounts for why the Philippines continues to suffer nearly two years on.
Know Your IX, a project of Advocates for Youth — a group that educates and empowers youth to fight against sexual violence in schools — created a guide to Title IX.
Only one gynecologist serves the 8,000 to 13,000 people of reproductive age who need those services in the municipality of Shuto Orizari in North Macedonia’s capital city, the only municipality with a Roma majority in the country. And as of last month, he’s no longer on duty.
While she’s only one of a handful of girls at the gym (and is constantly told that fighting is not something nice Trinidadian girls do), the sport provides the protagonist with a much-needed outlet away from her parents’ violent and volatile relationship
Everyone is affected by climate change. But some people — who are already less visible than others — are at greater risk of harm than most. People with disabilities face different and more intense challenges than non-disabled people in the face of events like extreme heat, wildfires, hurricanes, and droughts.
It seems like 2021 brought a ripple of change to this double standard, and 2022 could turn that ripple into a wave.
While a record number of women are employed in construction jobs, the industry needs to do more to recruit and retain them.
With an ongoing civil war that’s worsening a dire humanitarian crisis, women in Yemen are challenging societal rules in order to provide for their families.
The exclusion of indigenous people underscores white privilege within the climate movement.
While still a minority of those whose movies are selected to represent their nations in the category, women filmmakers often offer a distinct, female-centered point of view.
A 65-year-old woman who goes by just her first name, Mayawati, is one of the indigenous women leading a nearly 200-mile march to protest the opening of more coal mines in the forest of Hasdeo Arand, in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
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