A bipartisan group of legislators reintroduced The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) last Tuesday, with the aim of closing the gap between existing protections for pregnant workers and discrimination that still persists against them

Pro-choice activists are in mourning this week after the Alabama state legislature passed the country's most restrictive abortion bill and Gov. Kay Ivey signed it into law on Thursday.

Congress held a hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) on Tuesday, the first in 36 years. The development comes amidst a renewed effort on the part of state and federal Democratic legislators to push for the amendment’s ratification.

A groundbreaking poll finds that women of color voters have deep concerns about the state of the U.S. — and are determined to use their power for change.

South Korea’s Constitutional Court struck down a 66-year-old law that criminalized abortion in the nation on April 11. Women’s rights and pro-choice activists who have long campaigned to overturn the ban celebrated the decision.

The 30-year rule of Sudan’s president Omar Hassan al-Bashir was ended on Thursday when the military announced it had finally unseated their leader, who governed with an iron fist and is wanted on charges of genocide.

Without passing any major anti-choice legislation, the Trump administration has managed to curtail access to reproductive health care by radically altering federal policies.

Women now hold 102 seats in the House, the most ever. But thanks to Trump, 2018 was the political Year of the White Man.

Populist nationalist political leaders have been increasingly rising to power in recent years all over the world — from Bolsonaro in Brazil to the success of the Vote Leave campaign in the UK to President Trump. Now a group of female leaders has banded together to warn the world about how this growing embrace of right-wing authoritarianism undermines women’s rights across the globe.

After a narrow defeat in the Virginia legislature, the ERA campaign is heating up in several states.

A New York Times article examined how Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar has treated her staff members. Nichola Gutgold asks: Will other candidates be given similar scrutiny?

This Alabama woman wrote a piece about the late-term abortion she wishes she had. With Donald Trump’s conservative agenda in action, will lawmakers listen to stories like hers?

Advocates hope that the aptly named criminal justice law, which is limited in scope, could lead to broader reforms.

In late November, officials from the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement announced that the Law for Protection from Violence against Women, legislation women’s rights activists have advocated for since 2013, will likely be enacted in 2019.

The legislation, which would hold congresspeople personally liable for paying for settlements related to harassment rather than the taxpayer, now awaits President Trump’s signature.

On Tuesday, in the run-up to the opening of the Indian legislature’s winter session on December 11, women’s groups came together to express frustration and outrage that the Women’s Reservation Bill, which aims to ensure Indian women’s equal representation in elected office, has not yet been passed.

Tuesday’s midterm election brought mixed results for abortion rights. Democrats took control of the House, but anti-choice ballot measures passed in two states, leaving millions of women vulnerable to criminalization if Roe v. Wade is ultimately overturned.

Advocates warn that the expansion of religious refusals could open the door to more discrimination in other areas.

A proposed reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act could close loopholes that have left Native women, who are most at risk of violence, unprotected under the law.

With the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, anti-abortion activists see a new opportunity to overturn or gut Roe v. Wade.

A bill mandating that every publicly traded company based in California include women on its boards of directors was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown. Some experts are skeptical.

For the first time in history, white men constitute a minority of people running as Democrats for seats in the House of Representatives, according to an analysis published Tuesday by Politico.

Something called the “Worst for Women” campaign launched Tuesday. It points fingers at 15 sitting members of Congress for their dubious track record on women’s rights.

Former cricketer Imran Khan claimed victory Thursday in Pakistan’s parliamentary elections, raising concerns about how his leadership could impact women’s lives.

Brexit, it seems, has the potential to impact women’s lives—negatively. A report out this month warns that women’s rights may no longer be safeguarded once the UK leaves the European Union.