Women's rights

A 2018 government report confirmed that a slew of products and services targeting women cost more than those for men. It is time for lawmakers to change that.

The proposed statutes are "disastrous not only for women and religious and gender minorities, but for all Indonesians," said Human Rights Watch.

Judicial Watch is suing California for requiring female representation on corporate boards, and I'm feeling grateful.

Money equals power. But so far, it's been largely left out of the debate over equality for women.

If Mohammad Bin Salman is so keen on women's rights, why are women's rights activists in prison? And where is our backlash?

Previously women had to gain approval from a male guardian in order to obtain a passport.

A 1946 poll showed only 35 percent of Americans thought men and women could be equally intelligent.

The controversial president is well-known for public misogynistic remarks and has confessed to sexual assault.

Manslaughter charges have been dropped against Marshae Jones, the Alabama woman charged in death of her unborn fetus after being shot in the stomach

"We have been beaten very badly. I have injuries all over my body and my daughter too has some injuries," one of the victims said.

Women are again poised to be the determining factor in the election and ready for candidates to show how they would support us as president.

The Trump administration has worked to bring its domestic agenda to the U.N. and other global fora with alarming scale and speed.

Giving fathers paid leave after their children are born is a crucial part of the battle for women's equality.

Bernie Sanders backed abortion rights and blasted male-dominated legislatures in a 1972 article surfaced Wednesday, revealing another decades-long contrast with Joe Biden.

The Supreme Court justice has produced 20 pages of false equivalences and historical distortions.

"I will have a broad conversation with the vice president in which, of course, that'll come up," Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said of his planned meeting with Mike Pence.

In most states menstrual products are not sales tax-exempt, a category primarily reserved for food, prescription medications, and other "necessities of life."

"While this is a good sign of de-escalation, given that these women have been detained since last May, it doesn't signal that their ordeal is over yet," said a senior research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

"For Trump and his team, human rights is just another cudgel they wield opportunistically in service of a vision for the Middle East," Jamal Abdi, president of the National Iranian American Council, told Newsweek.

The new regulations could help mitigate the problem of so-called "secret divorces."

The abuse left some women unable to walk or even stand, while one prisoner, after an especially brutal session, repeatedly tried to kill herself.

Imelda Cortez suffered years of abuse by her stepfather.

The girl had been in hospital for four days and was reportedly on a ventilator when attacked.

A survey asked Americans to evaluate movies with abortion as a theme, and rank them according to how comfortable they were with the way the issue was handled.

"So much is at stake in this country," the organization's founder and president told Newsweek. "And people are really paying attention to what's going on right now."

"It is my intention that the services will be free," said Health Minister Simon Harris.

Police in India arrested the man and his wife after a neighbor tipped off a local women's safety organization.

The man was detained on charges of "committing several violations and taking up a post exclusively reserved for Saudis."

Donald Trump repeatedly called for American troops to withdraw from Afghanistan because the war is expensive.

The Royal Police Cadet Academy has said it will not admit women from 2019 onward.