Women’s Rights

Many argue abortion is not just an issue of individual choice but also of social justice.

A nonprofit’s grassroots data collection successfully pushed for a child marriage ban in Indonesia, a significant step to reduce female poverty.

Securing a good loan is challenging for many entrepreneurs, particularly women.

Stereotypes “permit and exacerbate conflict,” experts say.

We explore why some microfinance practices work really well while others fall short.

The sudden about-face could undercut the Taliban’s hopes for international recognition.

The Taliban are using detentions, repression, censorship, and killings to tighten their grip on power.

What a daughter’s inheritance fight reveals about Kenya’s constitutional reforms, which aimed to provide equal land access between men and women.

Ukrainian women are at the center of the war—but too often at the margins of public imagination.

Where populist authoritarianism is on the rise, anti-abortion politics aren’t far behind.

What Agnes Sithole’s case shows about South Africa’s progress and peril since apartheid ended.

On the new season of the Hidden Economics of Remarkable Women, Melinda French Gates and Esther Duflo share the most effective ways to support women.

In one of the worst places to be a woman, politicians are doubling down.

Afghanistan’s new government is imposing discriminatory restrictions on the health care system.

Continuing to deny aid to Afghanistan is an anti-feminist policy choice.

Tech companies around the world could easily recruit more women and minorities if only they knew where to look.

Political parties across India have promised a host of new social programs exclusively for women. Is it politics or progress? 

The ambiguous feminist legacy of the world’s most powerful woman.

Pedro Sánchez hopes to bolster his feminist credentials—and take on the far right.

Pakistan has 50 million women of childbearing age and only one globally certified person to help them feed their newborns.