Women

A woman was passed over to lead the Pentagon—but it’s the entire country that’s missing out.

How the Pashtun Protection Movement became a release valve for women’s anger.

If U.S. President-elect Joe Biden wants to champion gender equality and reproductive rights, he can’t just roll back Trump-era policies.

Donald Trump isn’t the only right-wing populist to govern with aggression—and do surprisingly well with women.

Female and LGBTQ soldiers may face more danger from their colleagues than their enemies. Here’s what the president-elect can do.

Terrorist violence and COVID-19 have set maternal health back decades.

The country’s Catholic conservatives have achieved a long-sought goal—and may have fatally weakened their power in the process.

But equality is still a long way off.

The U.S. administration exports anti-abortion policies abroad and strips international agreements of references to “sexual orientation” and “gender identities.”

A focus on women’s health care should be the basis of any plan for equality.

Hundreds of Islamic State-affiliated women are optimistic that Baghdad will soon have to let them go.

The failed extradition of a child pornographer highlights the Korean legal system’s laxity toward a certain kind of criminal.

Afghanistan's future needs to include more than just those who hold guns. Here’s how to make that happen.

They’ve been disproportionately affected by job losses, and now new jobs may first go to men.

Younger Afghans are on a mission to change how their country talks about life, death, and freedom.

In congressional hearings this week, it just needs to figure out how to better implement the legislation.

The world’s “best place to be a woman” is far more dangerous than its reputation suggests.

The coronavirus has created more people vulnerable to exploitation by traffickers—and revealed the world’s unpreparedness to protect them.

Japanese women quickly realized that the disaster that struck their country nine years ago was an unprecedented opportunity to overcome discrimination.

The United States has joined with a group of authoritarian countries in opposing not just abortion, but also basic medical vocabulary that applies to women.