List of Sex and Gender articles
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A grid of four book covers on a yellow background The Books FP’s Contributors Loved This Year
Our favorite books—and reviews—of 2025.
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Chinese bachelor Zhou poses with Huskies. What Happens to China’s Surplus Men?
The one-child policy’s gender imbalance has spawned desperate bachelors, dubious gurus, and a rising manosphere.
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A young girl is flanked by two women, all with serious faces. A Kaleidoscopic Portrait of Women in Taiwan
“Left-Handed Girl,” Taiwan’s Oscar hopeful, offers a multifaceted view of women learning to live beyond shame.
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A man in a blood-stained shirt stands in the middle of an orchard of young trees, looking right into the camera with a distraught expression. A Jekyll and Hyde for the Manosphere
“The Things You Kill” explores the pitfalls of masculinity in modern-day Turkey.
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A woman sits in a clinic exam room with a blood pressure cuff on her arm, looking to the side with a serious expression. A nurse in a white uniform shirt stands nearby. Medical supplies and medication bottles are arranged on a small shelf against the wall, which is covered with charts and papers. The End of Ending AIDS
As the Trump administration pledges to meet global health targets, it has terminated some of its best tools for doing so.
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The book cover for Motherland by Julia Ioffe. How a ‘Fairy-Tale Country’ for Women Turned Its Back on Feminism
Julia Ioffe’s new feminist history of Russia offers important lessons for the West.
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Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum speaks during her daily press conference at Palacio Nacional in Mexico City, Mexico, on Nov. 17. What the World Missed in the Claudia Sheinbaum Groping Story
The president’s announcement of a crackdown on gender-based violence ignores its drivers.
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Demonstrators gather during a march on International Women's Day in Los Angeles on March 8. The Good News on Women’s Rights
How some countries are quietly advancing progress.
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Four women sit on a bench with a young girl sitting between them. All wear colorful patterned dresses. The health worker, second from left, holds an open booklet and gestures at it as she speaks. Ethiopia’s Fight Against Anti-Abortion Propaganda
How Ethiopians are resisting U.S.-backed disinformation on abortions.
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A woman with a scarf on her head sits on the ground holding a black sheep. Behind her white sheep are scattered on a grassy, rocky mountainside. The Women Carrying Water—and the World
The complicated life of women struggling with climate change—and cultural change—in Kashmir’s mountains.
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A woman is seen from slightly below as she stands outside a large stone building with columns. The woman holds a set of scales up in one hand. Women’s Rights Are Winning
Around the world, high-profile setbacks have inspired overlooked progress.
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Women doctors assist a pregnant patient at a hospital in Ghazni, Afghanistan. Trump Erases Women From Foreign Policy
The White House has overturned the decades-old bipartisan policy consensus that female empowerment serves U.S. interests.
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A woman in a red face mask and a coat over a red hoodie stands on a sidewalk, holding a laptop and speaking on her phone. Cars drive past behind her, with a suitcase and an international airport visible in the background. Putin vs. the Press
You’d have to be fearless or a fanatic to persist in journalism in Russia. These women are both.
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Sanae Takaichi, in a blue suit, gestures at a pink lectern in front of a green wall. Who Is Japan’s First Female Prime Minister?
Sanae Takaichi’s ultranationalist agenda will stir up the region.
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A worker sitting on a crowded factory floor is framed by stacks of jeans sitting in the foreground as she works at a sewing machine. The Crisis for the Women Who Make Your Clothes
Trump’s tariffs are having major ripple effects on the fashion industry’s female work force.
