List of Sex and Gender articles
-
Pedestrians pass a billboard urging a 'no' vote in the referendum to preserve the eighth amendment of the Irish constitution in Dublin on May 13, 2018. Ireland’s Nasty No Campaign
Anti-abortion activists are deploying every imaginable scare tactic to defeat a referendum that would grant Irish women the right to choose.
-
Runners of the Shanghai Pride Run make signs with their fingers while wearing rainbow shoelaces at the start of the race in Shanghai on June 18, 2016. (Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images) It’s Still (Just About) OK to Be Gay in China
Online protest has scored a solid win for LGBT rights — for now.
-
Women protest a bill decriminalizing domestic violence in Moscow’s Sokolniki Park in February 2017. (Sergei FadeichevTASS via Getty Images) Putin’s War on Women
Why #MeToo skipped Russia.
-
Andrea Nahles and Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer in Berlin, on March 12, 2018. (JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images) Germany’s Post-Merkel Power Fraus
The German chancellor's most likely successors are both women — but the similarities end there.
-
The sign of the World Health Organization (WHO) on May 21, 2012 at the United Nations office in Geneva. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images) U.N. Sexual Assault Investigations Die in Darkness
Leaked reports reveal the organization's faulty forensics on sexual misconduct — and the culture of impunity they produce.
-
file Will State Miss Its #MeToo Moment?
Some say harassment policies and processes are failing foreign service officers.
-
Activits hold Syrian flags as they take part in a protest marking the 6th years since the beginning of the syrian uprising organized by Syrian organization "Femmes pour la Démocratie" (Womens for Democracy) during Syria peace talks in Geneva on March 23, 2017. (Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images) Women Write Better Constitutions
If you want to form a more perfect union, in Syria or elsewhere, you can’t rely on men.
-
Donald Trump and Miss America contestants at Trump Tower, in New York on May 8, 2012. The Teflon Don
Sex scandals have a long history of taking down politicians — but don't get your hopes up about the current U.S. president.
-
books_topimage Out With The Old: New Books on Collusion, Civil War, Doomsday, and Other Happy Tidings
FP staffers learn how democracies die and why Mussolini wrote a bodice ripper.
-
Haig Papazian, Carl Gerges, and Hamed Sinno, members of the band Mashrou' Leila, in New York on Nov. 1. After their concert in Cairo in September, Egypt intensified a crackdown on its LGBT community. (Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images) 2017 Was a Bad Year for Egypt’s LGBT Community. 2018 Could Be Even Worse.
Egyptian authorities are using a "debauchery" law to justify a crackdown on gay and trans people.
-
Men wave rainbow and 'black lives matter' flags while marching in the annual LGBTQI Pride Parade on June 25, 2017 in San Francisco. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images) 2017 Was the Year I Learned About My White Privilege
I used to be a smart-alecky conservative who scoffed at “political correctness.” The Trump era has opened my eyes.
-
Aida Abdulla speaks to Dr Samrin Farouk Habbani at the Khartoum Breast Care Centet on Oct. 15, 2015. (Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty Images) The Crime of Gender Inequality in Global Health
There’s no way we’ll be able to grapple with the coming health crises unless we fix the gaping problem of women’s empowerment in global health.
-
Former U.S. President Barack Obama talks with then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and then-Deputy Chief of Staff Jake Sullivan while attending the U.S.-ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Nov. 20, 2012. (Wikimedia Commons) I Was Hillary Clinton’s Chief Foreign-Policy Advisor. And I Have a #MeToo Mea Culpa.
Men in positions of power need to do better. That includes me.
-
Left: Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey pose backstage at the Glamour 2017 Women of The Year Awards in New York on Nov. 13. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Glamour); Right: Ronan Farrow at the Forbes Under 30 Summit in Philadelphia on Oct. 6, 2015. (Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images) The Journalists Igniting a Conversation on Sexual Assault
Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey, and Ronan Farrow exposed Harvey Weinstein’s crimes against women. Thousands around the word said, “#MeToo.”
-
Director Roya Sadat on set in Kabul on Nov. 19. (Jesse Dittmar for Foreign Policy) The Director Bringing the Story of Afghan Women to the Screen
As a teenager, Roya Sadat organized performances dramatizing the Taliban’s appalling treatment of women. Today, she is one of the country’s most prominent filmmakers.
