In parts of post-Taliban Afghanistan, women seen talking to men who aren't their family members risk being arrested and given hospital examinations to determine if they've recently had sex. In Nigeria ...

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Over a 10-week period, 1964’s Freedom Summer brought together nearly 700 student volunteers, local residents and other civil rights activists to work to ensure that African Americans in Mississippi ...

I recently saw the prize-winning Broadway musical Suffs about the women’s suffragist movement, which in August 1920, after a decades-long struggle, won women’s freedom to vote with adoption of the ...

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“Nearly 70 percent of all divorces are initiated by women,” proclaims the main article a fact that is shocking, yet also suggests something more profound: for many women, partnership is not the land ...

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Every year, the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence highlights the many ways gendered harm continues to shape the lives of women and girls around the world. This year’s theme focuses on ...