A study published Wednesday confirms “extensive direct links” between environmental pressures and gender-based violence.
A new ad campaign from feminine hygiene brand Kotex has decided that using blue liquid to demonstrate the efficacy of its menstruation products in commercials is outdated and, well, absurd.
A study out this month in the American Economic Journal says married women who reach the corporate pinnacle are twice as likely to be divorced three years after their promotion to CEO as compared to their male counterparts.
Thousands of women repped the resistance front and center at the fourth annual Women’s March taking place in cities across the U.S. on Saturday.
It’s awards season. Which means it is again the time of year in which women realize they’ve been snubbed, blocked, ignored, skipped over…however you want to put it, it’s the season in which women are consistently losers to the patriarchy, and this year is no different.
An opinion issued Wednesday from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel may scuttle an effort to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
A court in India issued a death warrant Tuesday for four men convicted of gang-raping a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in 2012. They are set to be hanged on January 22.
Victoria’s Secret is still busy making life for women and girls about being their thinnest possible selves.
Korean women are still—nearly 75 years later—fighting to gain restitution from the country that forced them into sexual slavery, despite a “final and irreversible” deal reached between Korea and Japan in 2015.
While Harvey Weinstein’s accusers are figuring out whether to take a proposed multimillion-dollar settlement, Japan’s version of Harvey Weinstein has been ordered to pay just 3.3 million yen ($30,000) in damages in a very public rape case.
As if being pursued by an enemy isn’t traumatic enough, women in the military are also being stalked by their own..
In 2019, across the world, the number of years it will take women to reach equal pay and opportunities with men increased by 55 years.
Women are being denied legal prescriptions for the morning-after pill (Plan B) and a pill for medical abortion (mifepristone) based on pharmacists’ religious beliefs. This week, one woman has chosen to fight back.
iI’s been a troublesome week filled with reports that migrants and refugees being held in U.S. detention are being refused medical care they desperately need.
On November 18, the body of Jennifer Rothwell, 28, was found near a state park outside of Troy, Mich. Her own husband led police to her remains after they accused him of murder. Now, news outlets are reporting that Rothwell, who was six weeks pregnant when she was killed, had searched “what to do if your husband is upset you are pregnant” on her cell phone before she went missing.
While she may have escaped the horrors of North Korea, one woman who defected to South Korea says she has been forced into a new nightmare.
“When women die, the man gets to tell the story,” said Fiona Mackenzie, founder of British advocacy group We Can’t Consent to This.
The United States has not had a working Violence Against Women Act since February, when VAWA lapsed during a rush to pass legislation to (unsuccessfully) avoid a partial government shutdown. And now, while the House has already passed a version of the act earlier this year, the Senate is refusing to take up the bill because of pressure from the National Rifle Association.
In the ever-intensifying war on women’s reproductive rights in the U.S., Republican Ohio lawmakers have managed to take things to a new, frightening low. A bill introduced this month would criminalize all abortion and includes a provision requiring doctors to try to “re-implant” ectopic pregnancies, despite the fact that no such procedure exists.
In a stunning display of greed—or possibly deep ignorance—two popular Japanese clothing brands have purposely turned a human rights tragedy into a selling point: Muji and Uniqlo have both been touting the fact that the cotton for their clothing comes from Xinjiang, China, an area in which a million Muslim Uighurs have reportedly been detained in “reeducation” camps.
The first rule of reporting on sexual assault is to get consent from survivors that you can use their name, image, or identifying details. Australian public broadcaster ABC screwed that up pretty badly when it began early embargoed distribution of a documentary that is actually about—seriously—#MeToo.
As absurd or 1950s as it sounds, women across various work sectors in Japan are being told to take off their glasses.
Amid ongoing violent demonstrations against the re-election of Bolivian President Evo Morales, masked protesters on Wednesday kidnapped the mayor of a small town in central Bolivia.
With the election of a Democratic plurality on Tuesday, Virginia is poised to become the 38th—and final—state to ratify the ERA and make it a reality.
