Girls and Women

Climate change isn't gender neutral. Our response shouldn't be either.

2023 has seen a huge rise in female-targeted entertainment, which could be a show of things to come.

Women's health is in danger.

One Mumsnet user accused the mom of reacting in a "ridiculous and unreasonable" way to a simple emoji.

Each of us can advocate for food aid to rescue Afghanistan from famine.

Women are central to solving the climate crisis.

We do not need more treaties and laws. We need countries, including the United States, to enforce the protections guaranteed in their own constitutions, their laws, and the international treaties they have signed.

Afghanistan cannot recover from its massive crises unless its entire population is free.

Women matter. Their autonomy matters. Their futures matter.

Clothing should be an industry of joy and self-expression. But when forced labor plays a part in its production, it becomes an industry of suffering.

For girls and women the world over, the fight for humanity and dignity is as alive as ever.

Though we still control less wealth than men, women give more of ours away. Across income levels and generations, women are more likely to give, and give more.

As postcolonial ecofeminists have long cautioned, the international community needs to ensure that in championing the gender and climate change connections and putting women at the forefront of this, it should not perpetuate harmful stereotypes that relegate the Third World woman as repositories of care for the environment.

The world stands with the Ukrainian people as they suffer at the hands of Russia's invasion and continued attacks. We must also stand with Ukrainian women and girls as the war compounds the gender-based violence and trauma that they face.

Despite societal progress in attitudes toward singles in recent decades, the stigma of being single still remains for women.

Women are actively discouraged from embracing more conservative views or making more traditional choices.

The radical right, claiming a moral and cultural high ground not so different from the traditional and religious leaders in conservative Muslim-majority Niger, has succeeded in commandeering women's reproductive rights.

In this crisis, untold harm has already been done. But it is not too late for the international community to turn things around.

"I'm sorry for America. It has failed you," Pavlovitz wrote after the Supreme Court's stunning reversal of Roe v. Wade.

Officials said having no juvenile females at the Hawai'i Youth Correctional Facility is because of "years of work to replace handcuffs with healing."

"[Partying] can be fun but sadly it can also be risky," the woman wrote. "Most of my friends and I have had bad experiences."

The Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan raised concerns about the rights of women and girls, who had made advances since the end of the group's first rule.

The fight to protect reproductive freedoms, especially for those in minority communities, should be front-and-center in Democrats' plan to win the 2022 midterms.

Although the history of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan may already be written, the fate of millions of Afghan women and ethnic and religious minorities is not.

We can save countless people from suffering. What could be more meaningful than that?

This is the first time Ukraine has evidence of a rape committed by a Russian soldier against a Ukrainian woman since the beginning of the war.

We don't have time to wait for girls to grow into women before we hear them.

Female founders and funders are poised to take a significant step toward a more equitable and economically profitable future.

Female students are required to be taught separately from males and can be instructed only by women teachers.

If we all do what we need to do, then gender equality can be achieved in this generation, but women have to lead from the front—and we have to have the health care and support to get them there.