A new Women’s Media Center report finding that white men occupy more than two-thirds of guest spots on major Sunday news shows confirms decades of research. Journalism scholar Carolyn Byerly explores the reasons behind the exclusion of women’s voices in news media.
Not only can the inability to bear children have a profound impact on Indian women’s identities — childless women’s very femininity is questioned — but it can also threaten their relationships, particularly their marriages.
On Saturday, Daniella Flanagan rallied for reproductive rights in downtown Houston along with more than 10,000 others when the skies opened. Relentless, heavy rain poured down.
A kissing bug disproportionately affects Latin American immigrants. Author Daisy Hernández talks about the lack of urgency around diseases thought to be uncommon or eradicated in the United States.
With Roe v. Wade imperiled, activists are stepping up with innovative acts of resistance.
We had the chance to chat with Yang over email about Room to Dream, what it is like writing such a personal series, and dealing with adults who are uncomfortable with diverse stories.
More than 80 women had their names and pictures posted without their consent on the app’s “deals of the day.” Rather than hosting actual transactions, the sole purpose of the app was to humiliate its subjects.
A new analysis of print, digital media, and entertainment has found that coverage is heavy on sensationalism and moral judgment, and light on factual information.
If being told to cover up their bodies makes girls feel bad, why do we tell them that?
We had the chance to talk to Buford about her novel, how real-life events influenced this book, and how all teens can learn to find their voice.
This representation of love is completely misleading to millions of impressionable young women like myself.
If SB8 represents the loss of the ultimate choice over our bodies, it is the pinnacle of choices lost to Tejanas that went seemingly ignored or unconnected to reproductive rights.
Seyran Ateş established a mosque in Berlin that is inclusive and encourages discussion and debate.
Swift is no neophyte when it comes to embracing new genres and creating complex music many can connect to and enjoy.
Both artists opted to align with abusive men on both albums, making fandom of either artist harder to justify.
If you’ve ever been in New York City during the September convening of the UN General Assembly, you know that there are alt-events ringing the Secretariat throughout Midtown’s tony East Side. Everything from corruption to global health to sustainable agriculture — any human rights issue you can think of usually has at least one panel, if not a dozen.
North Carolina’s Governor Roy Cooper signed Senate Bill 35, which increases the minimum age for marriage from 14 to 16 years old (under certain circumstances), into law on August 26.
The former state legislator, well known for her filibuster of a 2013 anti-abortion bill, speaks out on how and why we must keep fighting back against the erosion of reproductive rights.
“There’s been a lot of discussion about unlikeable female characters in general and I personally wanted to give [creating one] a shot because I think unlikable characters are more realistic.”
In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court refused to block a Texas abortion law that bans abortions after six weeks, including in cases of rape and incest, and allows people to sue both clinics and individuals who help someone get an abortion.
It’s been just four years since President Trump chucked paper towels at survivors of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, but the act left an enduring image of the president’s callousness to people suffering in the storm’s aftermath.
"TIBBI," a telehealth solution meant to digitize the operations of lady health workers (LHWs) in Pakistan for better efficiency, has been ill-received by their patients: workers reported being yelled at and thrown out of homes for being vulgar and recording information on their devices.
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