Female “ragpickers” in Mumbai are no longer what their name suggests. These days, many are in collectives and trying to find a better deal in the recycling industry. But it’s not easy when government ...

Shortfalls point to ongoing barriers—including stigma, limited clinic accessibility, and hurdles concerning women.

Some transgender people alter their physical characteristics via social, hormonal, and/or surgical changes to embody the ...

Mark Twain famously said, “History does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.” I’ve been thinking about the political historian ...

Shortfalls point to ongoing barriers—including stigma, limited clinic accessibility, and hurdles concerning women.

More than two dozen women so far have alleged sexual misconduct against the iconic comedian. When journalists and bloggers call these victims “accusers” it perpetuates a culture of victim blaming.

Having already withdrawn from the Human Rights Council, the U.S. has adopted an increasingly isolationist and obstructive stance within international institutions.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

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 ...

“I used to think that wearing a scarf on my head was my highway ticket to paradise,” says one woman. But then she found it weighing her down with role-model pressures. For Ramadan, she and two others ...

She was the first female agent to die in the line of duty and her colleagues call it doubly tragic because she was killed by friendly fire. Director J. Edgar Hoover kept the FBI ranks all male but ...

Joy was seventeen when I met her. She had a smile that could light up a locked psych ward and a laugh too big for the walls around her. The first time we spoke, she burped right in my face, then broke ...