Right-wing and extremist politicians here in the U.S. want us to believe that banning abortion will make it disappear. The ...

A clear pattern is emerging, where the voices of women are being silenced and their contribution to society “reclassified.” ...

A clear pattern is emerging, where the voices of women are being silenced and their contribution to society “reclassified.” ...

“Food stamps gave me the time to rebuild my life. Using hunger as political leverage isn’t fiscal policy. It’s a moral failure.” I’ve been that mother in the grocery store line, food stamps in hand, ...

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 ...

I can’t help but wonder what the long-term consequences are to a society that suppresses our empathy and humanity in the name ...

The United Nations’ Gender Snapshot 2025 is out, and the numbers are grim: Women have broken barriers in education but remain sidelined in leadership, holding only 27.2% of parliamentary seats, 30% of ...

(WOMENSENEWS)—If there is a single through-line in my life and in my philanthropy, it is marginalization. It has been with me from my earliest memory, and it has defined the many causes to which I ...

(WOMENSENEWS)—When I was 18 years old, I fell in love. I had met a man near the University of Oregon campus who seemed to love me as much as I loved him. Even though I was a promising high school ...

Women in this facility endure dehumanizing procedures that contradict every value espoused in the Governor’s river of hope-filled sentiments. It is the height of irony. In the same month officially ...

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 ...

Certainly there are differences among societies and regions of the world when it comes to domestic violence. But if we exoticize it we miss what is going on. (WOMENSENEWS)–The dramatic finale of the ...