More: Gender Equality
11 Women Found Dead in South Africa, Renewing Anger Over Gender-Based Violence
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has described violence against women as a “national shame” after the discovery of another woman’s body intensified public anger...
Afghanistan Under Taliban Rule: Governance Through Systematic Repression and Gender Apartheid
Afghanistan's Taliban governance since August 2021 has evolved from ad-hoc rule through violence into a systematized apparatus of repression codified through formal legislation. What...
The War No One Talks About: What Modern Conflict Is Doing to Women and Girls
There is a particular cruelty to the way modern wars are fought. Not just in their scale or their duration, but in what they...
The Aesthetics of Impunity: Legal Backsliding of Gender in Türkiye
In early 2026, the discovery of Durdona Khakimova and Ergashalieva Sayyora—two Uzbek women murdered and disposed of in trash containers in Istanbul—sent a chilling...
Breaking the Ice: Marina Starovoitova, the World’s First Female Captain of a Nuclear Icebreaker
She started as a school teacher. Now she commands one of the most powerful vessels on Earth. Marina Starovoitova answered Modern Diplomacy's questions after...
Saudi Vision 2030: Gains and Gaps in Women’s Empowerment
In recent years, the evolution of women in Saudi Arabia has become one of the most scrutinized aspects of the kingdom's reforms of recent...
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.”...