British author Laura Bates discusses her new book, The New Age of Sexism. Growing up, me and my school friends often dodged the obscenities men hurled at us from across the street. Much like homework ...

Jana was in the business of making women feel sexy. She ran a successful beauty salon in Slovakia, but suddenly, COVID-19 struck. Forced to close her salon’s doors, Jana found herself like so many: ...

“I don’t think any other commission’s report has gotten so much attention,” says Maheen Sultan, one of the members of Bangladesh’s women’s affairs reform commission. It’s hard to disagree. Sultan’s ...

While tariffs are making headlines, Trump 2.0 is also upending the results of decades of international collaboration at the United Nations. In order to better understand how a U.S.-led push to reject ...

I’ve been writing for decades about America’s on-again-off-again support for the reproductive health care of women around the world, focusing on the Republican presidents who have slashed funding and ...

ADRÉ, Chad—When the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) entered El Geneina, the capital of the Sudanese state of West Darfur, Sadia Adams’s* two brothers knew they had to hide. RSF fighters were systematically ...

African women who leave home to work as nannies or housekeepers in the Persian Gulf know they’re risking their lives. The influx of reports detailing unpaid wages, sexual assault and – at times – ...

Add caption here: A group of foreign women rounded up by police from karaoke bars in Thailand's southern province of Narathiwat are taken to city hall during a campaign against prostitution and human ...

On Mother’s Day in 1974, a group of women headed to New York’s Prospect Park with a stack of flyers and pressed them into caregivers’ hands. “All women are unwaged workers,” the flyers read. “We work ...

A couple wearing full protective gear, including respirators, search through the remains of their home, which burned in the Eaton Fire on January 19, 2025, in Altadena, California. (Photo by Mario ...

DHAKA: The turning point came at midnight, when women hit the streets. By mid-July, Bangladeshi university students had been protesting for over a month for the reform of government job quotas, which ...

A protester in Kenya marches while holding a placard during the 'Feminists March Against Femicide' demonstration. (Photo by James Wakibia/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) Tomorrow marks the ...