In June, Melinda French Gates committed $215 million to menopause and midlife care. Menopause has become fundable partly because its costs finally got quantified: a 2023 Mayo Clinic Proceedings study ...

Up to 90% of women sentenced to prisons in the US are survivors of sexual and physical violence, either in childhood, adulthood or both. Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer recently announced her ...

We continue to ask women to make impossible trade-offs between caregiving and career, and then scrutinize whichever choice they make. Every Mother’s Day, we celebrate mothers for their love, and ...

Credit: Keerthivasan Rajamani/keerth on Flickr, under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). (WOMENSENEWS)–Rosa Parks‘ most historic hour may have occurred on the bus in December 1955 but a moment that ...

The fact that medical professionals seldom ask women whether they served in the military upon assigning them a diagnosis is just one of the reasons why many female veterans fail to receive the ...

These spaces aren’t just about connection – they’re arenas of advocacy, empowerment, and solidarity, representing a new kind of social value. A quiet revolution is unfolding for disabled women on ...

United Nations Special Rapporteur Reem Alsalem Presents Historic Report on Violence Against Mothers Across the Globe before the Human Rights Council, 62nd Session Last week’s 62nd session of the ...

My name is Mehria. I am 16 years old and I live in northern Afghanistan. Since birth, I have had a disability in one of my legs, which becomes more apparent when I walk. My mother says my disability ...

Our organization, Survivor Justice Center, honored Dolores Huerta at our Bridge to Justice Gala last May. We honored her for her legacy for championing rights of others, and yet we now have learned ...

The focus is shifting away from whether women should lead towards whether prevailing leadership approaches reflect how women choose to lead. For years, efforts to increase the number of women in ...

Cancer prevention researcher and recently-hooded PhD graduate Dr. LaShae Rolle recently went public with a harrowing personal story about being a 26-year-old Black woman diagnosed with breast cancer ...