More: Gender Equality
Men Make Wars, Women Pay the Price: Radical Feminist Critiques of the U.S.-Iran Conflict
The global discussion surrounding the U.S.-Iran conflict is heavily dominated by strategic calculations, missile capabilities, nuclear negotiations, economic sanctions, and regional balance of power....
Systematic injustice requires systematic action: The case of Afghanistan
No regime in modern history has worked so systematically to erase women from public life as the Taliban has in Afghanistan. As of today, 258 edicts,...
Unraveling the Paradox: Gender-Based Violence, Militarization, and the Role of the UN in Conflict Zones
Violence against girls and women was accepted as an inevitable aspect of violence and warfare before a critical examination into how sexual assault and...
Being a Woman Who Likes F1 Doesn’t Mean I’m Here for the Drivers’ Looks
If you asked a motorsport fan, particularly F1 fans in the era of Mercedes dominance, most would describe the era as “boring and predictable.”...
Breaking Patriarchy’s Shadow: South Africa’s Femicide Crisis and Global Resistance
Living as a woman is often like walking in a shadow that may not go away. The stigma lurking behind your back, the fear...
Rebeca Grynspan Eyes UN Leadership, Calls for Equality and Reform
Rebeca Grynspan, Costa Rica’s former vice president and current secretary-general of the UN Conference on Trade and Development, is a frontrunner to become the...
Purple Profile Picture Campaign Insufficient to Tackle Patriarchy and Femicide
There is truly no safe place for women when patriarchy is normalized as a culture and violence is silenced as a family matter in...
Abolishing Female Genital Mutilation: A Global Imperative
How deeply wounded are the morals of women out there, fighting for their lives time after time to maintain their dignity as women, and...
Seats Are Not Enough — Patriarchy Must Be Dismantled
For centuries, women and girls have been told to wait their turn, to negotiate harder, to adjust to the structures that exclude them. Yet...
#MeToo’s Digital Blind Spot: The Women the Movement Left Behind
This article discusses the important issues underlying the #MeToo movement that has spread across the globe. On the one hand, the #MeToo movement has...