Women

Female national security wonks are mad as hell about Washington’s rampant gender inequalities, and they’re not going to take it anymore.

The U.S. government has just released a highly anticipated human rights report that whitewashes the effects of its own policies.

Since 2016, the campaign to leave the European Union has been led primarily by men. The remaining candidates for prime minister are all male—and they're not talking about the grave consequences of Brexit for women.

Europe’s wave of burqa bans comes crashing down in the Americas.

The latest refugees from the kingdom fled to Tbilisi, Georgia, and spoke to Foreign Policy before seeking asylum in the West.

Romania under Ceausescu created a dystopian horror of overcrowded, filthy orphanages, and thousands died from back-alley abortions.

They helped propel Armenia’s Velvet Revolution. Now, they’re turning their attention to diplomacy with Azerbaijan.

From Khartoum to Warsaw, demonstrators are demanding basic equality while the Trump administration wages a war on women’s rights.

Netflix’s hit show Delhi Crime documents the changes rocking Indian society—and not all of them are good.

Men make nuclear weapons more dangerous. So why do they still dominate the field?

A slate of new releases reexamine gender in conflict.

A lack of medium-sized spacesuits highlights women’s needs in the workplace.

Tough but torn, Kelley Eckels Currie must find a way to balance her loyalties.

Celebrities’ crimes are pushing South Korea’s reckoning with misogyny.

This week, New Zealand saw its worst-ever terrorist attack, and Boeing aircraft around the world were grounded.

The U.S. military has long relied on women to entertain the troops. Here’s how that’s slowly changing.

This week, the world marked International Women’s Day, and the U.S. State Department canceled an award for a Finnish journalist who criticized Trump.

In countries around the world, progress defies the backlash.

Advocates for gender equality in Latin America are making gains, but an epidemic of violence overshadows their progress.

Washington helped start an epidemic of violence against women in Central America. Now it’s washing its hands of the problem.