In early July, the Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of expanding religious and moral exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s birth control mandate.
Rep. Abby Finkenauer, a Democratic congresswoman from Iowa, moved the House to pass an amendment that effectively doubled funding for endometriosis research.
Autoimmune diseases affect approximately 8% of the population, but 78% of those who live with these conditions are women. I’m one of those women.
There is no amplification that is too loud for Breonna Taylor’s cause, but if our voices aren’t cohesive, the movement becomes too diluted to continue to march at its deserved pace.
On July 6, the federal Student and Exchange Visitor Program announced that international students had to enroll in in-person classes if they wanted to legally remain in the U.S.
Since the University of Zimbabwe was founded in 1952, no woman had ever been elected to the position of student representative council president. That changed in 2019, when 22-year-old Abiona Mataranyika was elected to the position.
With most schools across the country switching to online learning due to COVID-19, many colleges and universities have waived standardized test requirements in their admissions processes.
This Book Is Anti-Racist also aims to empower young people to disrupt and uproot racial systems that have been in place for several years.
A 2016 report revealed that one in five adult Brazilian women has had at least one abortion, which amounts to at least half a million women every year. Given that the practice is illegal, the number may be much higher.
Will it finally lead to the real changes teachers have been calling for for years?
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of women’s reproductive rights in a 5-4 decision on June 29 by striking down a Louisiana law that would have limited the state to a single abortion clinic.
On February 4, a Pan-African feminist lawyer (who would like to remain anonymous) decided she was tired of seeing manels day after day on Kenyan TV stations.
J.K. Rowling immediately received backlash after sending a tweet that implied only women menstruate.
When I was 15 years old, I figured that if I wasn't accepted in any of the clubs at school, I might as well start my own, so I started a club that focused on empowering girls.
On June 7, Iran passed a new law criminalizing the emotional and/or physical abuse of a child — the first of its kind in the nation.
White people need to think more critically about the ways in which they have benefited from the same institutions they claim to protest online.
My parents married me off to my aunt’s husband, much in the way I’d seen other girls my age married off to older men in our Johanne Marange Apostolic Church community at home in Bikita.
While “reproductive rights” emphasizes securing women’s legal access to reproductive care, reproductive justice emphasizes an intersectional framework that prioritizes bodily autonomy.
TikTok has repeatedly, purposefully censored content it deems unattractive while allowing highly publicized sexist, violent, and hateful content to remain.
I’m still learning today, but these are the three most important lessons that have helped guide this learning: Question everything. Learn so you can unlearn. Ask for help.
Anti-choice protests were staged at clinics in North Carolina; Louisiana; Washington, D.C.; and Michigan, at which protesters similarly disregarded social distancing guidelines.
Despite their disproportionate vulnerability, the Indian government has largely ignored commercially sexually exploited people in its response to the coronavirus pandemic.
An interview from Asha Dahya’s book 'Today’s Wonder Women: Everyday Superheroes Who Are Changing the World'. Asha Dahya is a survivor of child marriage.
These writers keep working, and all of them told The FBomb that more amazing stories about amazing women are coming soon.
Of the many astonishing developments to come from COVID-19, the angry assemblies of Americans in many states requesting that the government reopen the country rank high.