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

Tabitha Haly, a woman with muscular dystrophy, discusses how she recently won her case fighting for her right to work in ...

Pop culture can be a powerful teacher, and Carpenter is rewriting the syllabus. Her latest work is doing what few pop stars ...

Cold weather amplifies these risks, underscoring the urgent need for earlier recognition, smarter screening, and scalable ...

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 ...

In a garment factory outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, a 19-year-old worker stopped showing up. Her supervisor said she had quit. Her coworkers whispered she had reported him for harassment. There was no ...

In her recent address before the United Nations Security Council, the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten delivered a searing account of the devastating and shocking ...

(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 ...

Rape victims’ right to anonymity has surfaced in the case of Julian Assange, with two leading exponents of women’s rights taking different sides. Wendy Murphy says both arguments miss the main point: ...

This was not the first, nor would it be the last femicide to occur in Greece this year, a country with the highest rate of men killing women in Europe. On June 9, the body of an 11-year old girl was ...

The most rapidly growing cause of disability and loss of human potential and productivity emanates from mental health conditions. Mental illness was the largest source of loss in GDP (Gross Domestic ...

She is the captive of a series of men, each enthralled with creating a cage of their design and desires. A man in Florida was charged last month with sex trafficking a 29-year-old woman whose mental ...