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How men benefit from family-friendly tenure policies
Women’s Equality Day — marking the 96th anniversary of the 19th Amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote — is a time to reflect both on the progress that has been made on gender equality and...
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Until recently this school in South Africa told black girls to chemically...
The passage of time does not necessarily correlate with natural progress forward.Such is the case in South Africa.Twelve years after the end of apartheid, black students at Pretoria High School for...
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Actress Hari Nef wants to see complex, even difficult, trans characters on TV
"Transparent" tackles issues and ideas that have never been tackled before on American television: In the show, the family's patriarch becomes its matriarch.Although it's not actually on TV, the Amazon...
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TV news stories about birth control quote politicians and priests more often...
Ninety-nine percent of reproductive-age US women who have had sex have used contraception at some point in their lives. And thanks to the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive mandate, more people have...
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World War II pilot Elaine Harmon is finally laid to rest in Arlington...
One of America's fearless World War II-era female pilots has finally been laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.Elaine Harmon, who died last year at 95, was a member of the Women Airforce Service...
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Fashion for people with disabilities, made in Rio
Christiano Krosh knows all about being an outsider.The 30-year-old has lived all his life in Rio de Janeiro’s low-income favela neighborhoods, most recently in Cidade de Deus, or City of God. He grew...
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Providing safe illegal abortions in Myanmar is a ‘karmic balance,’ says one...
Dr. Su Su Yin was doing surgical rounds at Yangon Central Women’s Hospital when a friend came to her with a problem — she was unmarried and pregnant. She asked Dr. Yin for an abortion.But abortion has...
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Sing to me in Vietnamese: A daughter learns the language of her refugee...
My mom arrived in the United States in the early 1980s.She was part of a wave of political refugees who were trying to escape war-torn Vietnam. Before then, there were very few Vietnamese immigrants in...
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South African women share their experiences with racism at schools
In recent weeks, hundreds of South African students have accused their schools of racism.Protests began at a high school in Pretoria, where black girls faced rules about how to wear their hair. As...
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Women make up half the electorate, but only one percent of debate questions
As the three US presidential debates near, will the moderators finally ask a question concerning issues that affect women, who make up more than half the electorate? Thus far, the presidential...
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What can be done to address eating disorders?
More than 30 million Americans — women and men, children and adults — grapple with eating disorders.These complex illnesses, which include anorexia, bulimia and binge eating disorder, severely...
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The movement that brought the UK's female genital mutilation problem to light
Female genital mutilation has been illegal in Britain for 30 years, but in that time there hasn't been a single conviction for anyone charged with the offense.It’s a fact that some British lawmakers...
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The girl at the center of a film about Syria's war is now thriving in Canada
The BBC’s Lyse Doucet has covered the war in Syria since it began five long years ago. So when happenstance found Doucet in her native Canada, she heard about a picnic being held for re-settled...
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This is the only photo of Hillary Clinton one newspaper has ever run
Israelis are closely following the US election, but in newspapers read by ultra-Orthodox Jews, there are no photos of Hillary Clinton — and some editors say that won't change, even if she becomes...
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Egypt is requiring breast exams for women seeking subsidized baby formula
In recent weeks, the Egyptian government has been preparing its citizens for a period of austerity designed to ease the national debt.Billboards around the country urge Egyptians to "rationalize our...
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Coming out as bisexual when you're Muslim and married
Zahra Noorbakhsh came out as bisexual shortly after the shooting at Pulse nightclub in Orlando last June. She did it in a very public way — on her podcast, #GoodMuslimBadMuslim. Below is an excerpt of...
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A Maasai warrior is rallying men to fight female genital mutilation
Dressed in colorful red, blue and white cloth, with necklaces of white beads adorning his chest, 28-year-old Olelein Kanunga sings and dances with his fellow Maasai warriors. He is carrying a long...
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Colombian women struggle after 'no' vote against peace accord
For the thousands of Colombian women who suffered gender violence and sexual assault during the country’s armed conflict, this past weekend’s rejection of the peace process has left them and millions...
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Warsaw protests put an end to a proposal for an absolute ban on abortions in...
It was the umbrellas that got us. That was all you could see in the photo, taken from above.Thousands of umbrellas filling the streets of Warsaw.And below them, thousands of women protesting a proposal...
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Pakistan unanimously passes legislation to try to stop honor killings
Pakistan passed long-awaited legislation Thursday closing a loophole that allowed people who killed for "honor" to walk free, three months after a social media star was murdered by her brother,...
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