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“Their stories of abuse and sexual violence are heartbreaking. They are not surprising.” But there are existing models that create true accountability.
Isolated agrarian communities in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu were hard hit by the pandemic, experiencing increased poverty, the diversion of savings toward healthcare, and prolonged illness, forcing families to pull their daughters out of school and marry them off. Years later, attendance rates haven't recovered, and child marriages haven't subsided.
While the United States has pledged to eliminate forced and child marriage by the year 2030, there are still 34 states where child marriage is still permitted.
A recent decision by the Board of Immigration Appeals will make things more difficult for women making claims of gender-based persecution.
Local leaders and women activists groups worked for years to build momentum for the passage of a bill expected to be signed into law.
Este articulo en español: Son niñas, no esposas: Colombia esta a punto de prohibir los matrimonios de adolescentes
The successful landing of Chandrayaan-3 has put India in an exclusive group of nations that have safely landed probes on the Moon.
While far from parity, women athletes continue to make strides toward greater opportunity, visibility, and inclusion.
The family of a slain Afghan journalist has founded an organization to provide resources and refuge to reporters still working in the country.
Despite great endorsement and public support in the country, other nations, including the United States, have yet to follow suit.
In February, Spain’s parliament passed a series of laws that brought many improvements to women’s and transgender people’s lives.
COP27, the comprehensive U.N. conference on climate change in November, got a lot of attention. But in December, there was a lesser-known U.N. climate-related This one not only made strides toward preserving the natural world, it was also a landmark moment for women in the climate movement.
On August 15, as India was celebrating the 75th anniversary of its independence, 11 men convicted of gang-raping a Muslim woman in 2002 were granted premature release from their life sentences.
Progress has been slow and unsteady, but activists are teaming up with elected officials to raise awareness and change laws.
A documentary and a dramatic film give a chilling portrait of the crushing impact of abortion bans — and of the courageous women who provided abortion care in pre-Roe Illinois.
WMC’s “The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2021” report draws data from 110 studies that together show the standing of women across all media, including legacy and digital news platforms, film, television, radio, technology, literature, and more.
The Women’s Media Center (WMC), a nonprofit that conducts research on and advocates for the visibility of women and girls in media, released a report last week that analyzed the demographics of host and guest appearances on the five biggest Sunday shows. Researchers looked at episodes that aired in 2020 for ABC’s This Week, CBS’s Face the Nation, CNN’s State of the Union, Fox News Sunday, and NBC’s Meet the Press.
More than two-thirds of the guests on five prominent Sunday morning TV news shows in 2020 were men and most of those guests were White men, according to new report on gender and race representation released by the Women’s Media Center.
Dahabo Mahdi, 32, is ploughing a small cornfield she shares with her in-laws in Jiro, a village in central Somalia. She only moved there recently. She was forced to.
Brown envisioned the creation of a program anchored by Black women and girls in the South that is today known as the Southern Black Girls and Women’s Consortium (SBGWC), a union of four organizations led by four Black women in the South
When Cyclone Winston ravaged the island nation of Fiji in 2016, it came with 185-mile-per-hour winds and a massive storm surge that displaced thousands, and took away the livelihoods of thousands more. Amid the downed palm trees and debris, people became hungry and desperate.
As the United States struggles to reaffirm its raison d'être, can the prospect of transformative change in a re-invigorated South American body politic become a new beacon for democracy?
Este articulo en español: Unidos, ¿estamos?
The board of the Women’s Media Center has unanimously elected Janet Dewart Bell as its new chair. Founding co-chair and WMC co-chair emerita Pat Mitchell nominated Bell to be the organization’s new chair; WMC co-founder Gloria Steinem seconded the nomination.
Este articulo en español: La junta directiva de WMC elige a Janet Dewart Bell como nueva presidenta La copresidenta fundadora y copresidenta emérita Pat Mitchell permanecerá en la junta
While Colombian media covers stories of sexualized violence in almost exploitative detail, it fails to highlight the victims’ ethnicity and race, thereby following a long tradition of obscuring who in the country is disproportionately victimized, as well as hiding the underlying structural causes that leave them most vulnerable.