List of Sex and Gender articles
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Afghan women chant slogans and hold placards during a protest for equal rights in Kabul on Dec. 16, 2021. Afghan Women Aren’t Liberated by Humanitarian Catastrophe
Continuing to deny aid to Afghanistan is an anti-feminist policy choice.
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tech-diversity-hiring-remote-work-illustration-foreign-policy-new How to Fix Big Tech’s Diversity Problem
Tech companies around the world could easily recruit more women and minorities if only they knew where to look.
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Women play a game in a village on the outskirts of Bangalore. India Is Building a Women-Only Social Safety Net
Political parties across India have promised a host of new social programs exclusively for women. Is it politics or progress?
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Female German politicians celebrate the 100th anniversary of women’s voting rights in Germany. Did Angela Merkel Matter for Women?
The ambiguous feminist legacy of the world’s most powerful woman.
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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defends the rights of lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender people from around the world in a speech during International Human Rights Day at the United Nations in Geneva on Dec. 6, 2011. What Biden Can Learn From Hillary Clinton’s Landmark LGBT Speech
When tackling big, global problems, expect pushback—but keep going.
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Retired Sgt. Tom Swann wears a "lift the ban" armband to protest the "don't ask, don't tell" policy against gays in the military in Washington. Fighting ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Paved the Way for Gay Rights
A new book chronicles the arduous struggle for LGBTQ equality in the U.S. military.
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A woman holds up a sign that demands the abolition of prostitution during a demonstration in Madrid on Oct. 23. Why Does Spain’s Progressive Prime Minister Want to Ban Prostitution?
Pedro Sánchez hopes to bolster his feminist credentials—and take on the far right.
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Greicy Estefania, the 6-year-old daughter of ex-combatant Esmeralda Ranjel, and her friend Desiree ride their bicycles past a mural of female ex-combatants of the Colombian rebel group the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in Pondores, Colombia, on Oct. 3. As Colombia’s Peace Crumbles, Female Guerrillas Wonder What’s Left for Them
Many joined the FARC to escape traditional gender roles. Now they’re being forced back.
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Sheila Vand in 2014's A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night. Logan Pictures An Iranian Feminist Vampire Defangs the Patriarchy
The subversive rebellion of “A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.”
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Zohra Kurji helps new mother Arj Rizvi at the lactation clinic at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, in October 2020. The Loneliest Lactation Consultant in the World
Pakistan has 50 million women of childbearing age and only one globally certified person to help them feed their newborns.
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Jennifer Klein speaks at the White House. Jennifer Klein on the U.S.’s ‘First Ever’ National Gender Strategy
“We want it to be aspirational,” said co-chair of U.S. President Joe Biden’s policy council.
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Staff at the KL Fertility Centre demonstrate the egg freezing procedure for members of the media in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on May 11. A growing number of women in Singapore are traveling overseas to clinics such as this one to freeze their eggs. Why Does the Singaporean Government Care About Egg Freezing?
The city-state’s ban on the procedure is making its demographic problems worse.
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A Spartan woman says goodbye to her son as he goes to war in an 1881 drawing by Dionisio Baixeras. Why Can’t Women End Wars?
Even as other domains of policy diversify, peacemaking is still left almost entirely to men.
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A woman protests during a demonstration against sexist violence in Madrid. Should Abusive Partners Have Parental Rights?
A gruesome case of “vicarious violence” in Spain raises new questions about whether abusive partners can ever be good parents.
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good-girls-ordinary-killing-india-sonia-faleiro-hanna-hbarczyk_illustration-lead No Country for Good Girls
Sonia Faleiro writes a searing account of the case of two Indian girls found hanging from a mango tree—and uncovers dark societal truths about how and why they died.
