Three decades after the Beijing Platform for Action, the groundbreaking UN declaration that affirmed that women’s rights are human rights, the global movement for gender equality and women’s ...

Convening next week for its annual gathering, the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) will mark 30 years since the famous Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, also known as the “Beijing ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- It was a special night marking ten years of making a difference for gender equality in New York City. Eyewitness News' Sade Baderinwa was the emcee for the "HeForShe" gala on ...

Gender equality is enshrined in the opening preamble of United Nations Charter 1945. But despite progress and some setbacks, not a single country has delivered 100% on gender equality. Is the sinister ...

Please enable JavaScript to read this content. Participants during FEMNET's three-day workshop. [Beryl Ringos, Standard] Every so often, someone is grumbling about ...

Every so often, someone is grumbling about how women's and girl's empowerment initiatives are "too much" and how the issues of the boy child are getting neglected. Well, the journey to gender equality ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marianne Schnall is a journalist who amplifies women’s leadership. Top row, from left: Fatima Goss Graves, Ai-jen Poo, Stacey ...

An explosion of sexual harassment and assault allegations has broken through Taiwan’s general complacency on the question of gender equality. In this image made from June 2, 2023, video provided by ...

10:12 a.m. March 18, 2024: An earlier version of this article identified Judith Butler as a professor of comparative literature at UC Berkeley. They are a distinguished professor in the Graduate ...

Pauli Murray was an influential civil rights strategist, legal scholar, and Episcopal priest who challenged traditional ...

In the ongoing struggle for democracy in Iran, women have emerged as some of the most influential and unifying voices, championing secularism, equality and inclusive governance. Over the past 150 ...