United Nations Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem Presents Historic Report on Violence Against Mothers Across the Globe before ...

Is underinvestment the root cause or just a symptom of our societal mindsets around womanhood and, particularly, aging women?

BANGKOK, Thailand (WOMENSENEWS)–Tamana Khatun is not a doctor. Nor is she a community leader in her remote and un-electrified Chanka village in Satkhira district of Bangladesh. But when a woman in the ...

“My Big Fat Greek Wedding” isn’t the sleeper hit of the summer because it’s a “family values” film. It’s a success because it’s a long overdue fantasy film for women. Also, Our Story: The Statue of ...

The fact that medical professionals seldom ask women whether they served in the military upon assigning them a diagnosis is just one of the reasons why many female veterans fail to receive the ...

A few weeks ago, as the East Coast braced for snow, Mayor Zohran Mamdani encouraged New Yorkers to stay home and read Heated Rivalry, a steamy enemies-to-lovers hockey romance. I stayed home. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

Credit: Keerthivasan Rajamani/keerth on Flickr, under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). (WOMENSENEWS)–Rosa Parks‘ most historic hour may have occurred on the bus in December 1955 but a moment that ...

Having already withdrawn from the Human Rights Council, the U.S. has adopted an increasingly isolationist and obstructive stance within international institutions. Will the United States become the ...