Society tells children that if someone has hurt them, they should tell a trusted adult. But the reality is often not that simple. In 34% of child sexual abuse cases reported to law enforcement, the ...

The Democrats are making the government shutdown about healthcare inequities. But even if they get their way, any budget is likely to perpetuate longstanding disparities in healthcare funding. I’m not ...

The disparity is most acute for diseases that primarily affect women.

The Netherlands’ oldest political party has come under fire for not allowing women to run for parliament. Lawsuits, funding cuts and one woman working from within have not managed to change the policy ...

Thriving in college is hard. The US News and World Report reports that only 62% of American college students graduate from a university within six years’ time. The reasons range from academic to ...

Supply chains are human chains. When they’re built on silence and disposability, they collapse. Addressing gender-based violence is not charity. It’s justice. And it’s long overdue. Because no audit, ...

As the government wipes important sexual health information from official websites and targets research funding simply for the presence of words like “women” and “sex,” it’s more important than ever ...

In March, 2020 the world as we knew it changed. Nations worldwide started locking down and governments began mandating masking and physical distancing, while recommending robust hand hygiene and ...

On his very first day in office, President Donald Trump fired Admiral Linda Fagan, the first woman in American history to lead a branch of the armed forces. She was evicted from her residence with ...

The work of Gunnar and Alva Myrdal, a husband and wife team, in the 1930s shaped Sweden’s progressive population policies, says Steven Philip Kramer in this excerpt from “The Other Population Crisis.” ...

Up to 90% of women sentenced to prisons in the US are survivors of sexual and physical violence, either in childhood, adulthood or both. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer recently announced her ...

In the two years since the Roe decision was overturned, a great deal of ink has been spilled discussing new restrictions to abortion and other means of curtailing women’s reproductive choices. But now ...