“Food stamps gave me the time to rebuild my life. Using hunger as political leverage isn’t fiscal policy. It’s a moral ...

"Food stamps gave me the time to rebuild my life. Using hunger as political leverage isn’t fiscal policy. It’s a moral failure." ...

To enable and empower our voices even further, Women’s eNews will be launching a new series, Her-Story, to provide ...

The United Nations’ Gender Snapshot 2025 is out, and the numbers are grim: Women have broken barriers in education but remain sidelined in leadership, holding only 27.2% of parliamentary seats, 30% of ...

Stimming, in all its forms, reflects our shared need for grounding, an expression of the connection between body and mind. Self-stimulatory behaviors are often associated with autism, but in truth, ...

(WOMENSENEWS)—When I was 18 years old, I fell in love. I had met a man near the University of Oregon campus who seemed to love me as much as I loved him. Even though I was a promising high school ...

In a special commentary, Martha Burk, head of an organization representing 6 million women, argues President Reagan injected into Republican politics a strain of virulent anti-woman policies that ...

As the government wipes important sexual health information from official websites and targets research funding simply for the presence of words like “women” and “sex,” it’s more important than ever ...

Women with disabilities live at the intersection of two main biases: Gender bias can also color physicians’ attitudes toward patients. For example, a 2018 study found that doctors often view men with ...

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 ...

The work of Gunnar and Alva Myrdal, a husband and wife team, in the 1930s shaped Sweden’s progressive population policies, says Steven Philip Kramer in this excerpt from “The Other Population Crisis.” ...