Brothels in the petroleum port province of Esmeraldas provide an employment magnet for underage women. A significant number are lured into the work by a man they consider a romantic partner. Third of ...

Welcome to Stop 03 on Women Strong’s six-part Learning Journey, where they explore what locally-led funding looks like in ...

Medical students with disabilities—particularly women from Asian, Black and Hispanic backgrounds—face disproportionately high ...

"Never mind that scientific evidence suggests as much," she wrote in a recent column distributed by the Washington Post about the former Harvard president who was driven out of his post in 2005 for ...

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.” ...

Many parents talk with their children about stranger danger, but far fewer talk openly about grooming or unhealthy age-gap relationships. The Epstein files confirmed what many already knew: older men ...

Credit: Keerthivasan Rajamani/keerth on Flickr, under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). (WOMENSENEWS)–Rosa Parks‘ most historic hour may have occurred on the bus in December 1955 but a moment that ...

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 ...

An offensive comment by the mayor of Osaka has brought the issue of comfort women back to the surface. A survivors’ group in the Philippines keeps the women’s stories alive and is planning a rally to ...

As an aesthetic physician, I have noticed a profound shift in the conversations I have with women in their forties and fifties. Very few begin by asking, “How do I look younger?” Instead, they say ...

In the two years since the Roe decision was overturned, a great deal of ink has been spilled discussing new restrictions to abortion and other means of curtailing women’s reproductive choices. But now ...

The stereotypes of women of color as always being sexually available show how undervalued they are, says Jaclyn Friedman in her new book “What You Really Really Want.” In this excerpt, she explores ...