Ugandan women's ability to negotiate the conditions and timing of sex, such as refusing sex and asking for condom use with their partners, is key to preventing several reproductive health outcomes, ...

Empowering women means acknowledging their agency in decisions about work, family, health and all other aspects of life. To achieve gender equality, governments and the international community must ...

Last week, the Taliban in Afghanistan published outrageous new laws on “vice and virtue” that require women to completely cover their bodies, including their faces, in public at all times. In issuing ...

Women world over and in every religion have historically been subject to being symbols of adulation, whilst there has not been a transference of this adulation and respect in practice. Often likened ...

I want to write this piece to express my disappointment in the regressive state of laws regarding women in the U.S. Three weeks ago, on April 9, the Arizona Supreme Court reinstated a Civil War-era ...

In doing so, they are participating in a significant shift in women’s sports, one that celebrates not only women’s physical strength but also their political power and personal autonomy – qualities ...

The spacious gardens of Giverny, France, are the inspiring gift that keeps on giving—and keeps on evolving—for experimental multi-media artist and alumnus Ja’Tovia Gary (MFA 2014 Social Documentary ...

International Women’s Day is not only about celebrating progress but also confronting the harmful traditions across the world ...