Over a 40-year period, up to 1989, the Soviet Union detonated 456 nuclear weapons in present-day Kazakhstan. A new documentary sees three generations of women speak about wounds and healing.

Taapsee Pannu’s bold performances challenge societal norms, giving voice to women’s struggles and redefining boundaries.

A temporary exhibition on patriarchy in Rome showcases sexist paradigms in Italy’s male-dominated and macho society where ...

For centuries, people have held mistaken assumptions about the origins of male-dominated societies, writes Angela Saini. In 1930, when London Zoo announced its baboon enclosure would be closing down, ...

As I returned home from this year’s Women in Statistics and Data Science Conference, one word rang loudly in my ears: patriarchy. In a presentation on the impact of gender on women’s careers, Carnegie ...

In response to “Hip Hop Dogmatism and Potential Problems for Political Organizing,” I have received two consistent criticisms: “You haven’t defined patriarchy,” and “You haven’t given us any solutions ...

How Periyar and the Self-Respect Movement took shape in Tamil Nadu and why the state has done better than the rest of the ...

Women secured critical progress in the Roman republic. Their rights were rolled back with the republic's collapse.

Wicked,” the stage musical, took its first bow 22 years ago. The novel it's based on, “Wicked: The Life and Times of the ...

Sara Khaki and Mohammadreza Eyni’s precisely lensed film follows Sara Shahverdi, the first councilwoman in the history of her ...