The EEOC blocked collection of gender income data for being “burdensome” for businesses.
Liberating Capital: The Impact of Providing Guaranteed Income for Black Women in The South
We wanted to test what would happen if we empowered Black women to be the authors of their own lives—with the understanding that they, and they alone, know what their families need. We wanted to explore what would happen if institutional power and resources were used in the service of Black women and not for their confinement and destruction.
Activists and House Lawmakers are Demanding That Women Workers BE HEARD
The BE HEARD Act is the first federal legislative proposal to acknowledge workplace harassment in the wake of the #MeToo movement’s explosion.
#NiUnaMas: Mexican Feminists are Renewing Their Calls for Action Against Femicide
Isabel Cabanillas de la Torre and Ingrid Escamilla were murdered in Ciudad Juarez and Mexico City within two weeks—sparking outrage across the nation and on social media.
Ask Ms. Green: How We Can Hold Companies Accountable for Toxic Menstrual Products
I mailed unused Lunapads and Thinx menstrual underwear to Dr. Graham Peaslee, a nuclear scientist at the University of Notre Dame who discovered PFAS chemicals in fast-food wrappers in 2017, and his undergraduate student assistant Robert Bartsch. The results are in, and I’m afraid it’s bad news.
Gender Equality in Medical Research Fosters a Healthier Future for All of Us
In 1989, the Physician’s Health Study on the benefits of aspirin for heart disease included 22,000 men and no women—and while we have made great strides toward more representative research in the decades since, women still aren’t included in biomedical research at a proportionate rate.
Meet Five Newly Empowered Women Farmers from Zambia and Mozambique
Nine traditional chiefs have partnered with USAID and DFID over the last five years to demarcate and document the land rights of 30,000 women farmers across Zambia and Mozambique.
The Real Cost-Benefit Analysis of Paid Leave
What is the cost of a father dying alone? Who knows the toll when chemo is what you do on your lunch hour? How do we measure the loss of a career to care for a loved one with a disability? What’s the price tag on a child’s terror while waiting in her hospital bed for a parent to finish work and drop exhausted into the chair beside her?
Their Eyes on the Goals
High school students in Southern California are answering the call to action and taking on the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals.
The House Just Voted to Lift the Arbitrary Timeline for ERA Ratification
HJ Res 79 will now head to the Senate after a 232-183 vote—where bipartisan companion legislation has already been introduced by Senators Ben Cardin and Lisa Murkowski.