True equality has been and continues to be denied to women. We know because we recently experienced it as participants in the first co-ed Boys and Girls State program.
We still have a long way to go toward reaching equality in politics.
Child care has been an issue in this country for years.
The obvious, enduring inequities between men’s and women’s college basketball were spotlighted last month when a 37-second video filmed by Oregon forward Sedona Prince went viral.
The lack of television coverage of female athletes creates an illusion that there is not a significant number of female athletes worthy of admiration — that they are failing — when in fact, there are many who are very successful.
Salman’s hypocrisy has been apparent all along.
These writers keep working, and all of them told The FBomb that more amazing stories about amazing women are coming soon.
Nurses, nursing home employees, domestic workers, and caregivers have long been industries dominated by women, who have long been underpaid.
Cisgender people who have experienced gender discrimination are more likely to express empathy and solidarity with people who identify as transgender.
Despite composing less than 7% of world leaders, women have been spearheading some of the most effective policies in response to the rapid, global spread of the novel coronavirus.
To this day, feminist zines are still a considerable presence in the zine universe.
The constant denial of women’s intelligence makes sense given how constantly the media celebrates men as geniuses while overlooking women who have done equally impressive work — or even the same work.
Plenty of research has established that there are major gender imbalances in male-dominated careers that make it hard for women to break into those fields. What is often less discussed, however, is men's underrepresentation in professions dominated by women, like healthcare, early education, and domestic (HEED) roles.
While, according to a 2019 survey, 46% of American gamers are women, the games they play don’t reflect their experiences at the same rate.
Among the flagrantly gendered phrases mentioned — including “ballbuster,” “nurturing,” and “bitchy” — one seemingly positive term stood out: “badass.”
Over one billion people live with disability, yet this group is barely represented in the media.
While it’s true that some political ideas shared by many Boomers are outdated, saying “OK Boomer” perpetuates the harms it seeks to redress.
A new report from GLAAD (the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) shows that there has been an incredible improvement in the representation of the LGBTQ community across TV platforms this year.
Women, mostly, are not encouraged in society to share their opinion. In 2012, the Columbia Journalism Review published an article in which they revealed that women only wrote 20 percent of op-eds in the nation’s leading newspapers.
There has never been a female winner of Formula 1 (F1) racing — the most prestigious category in the motorsport. But 13-year-old Juju Noda wants to change that.
In early September, the news broke that Adele Lim, a screenwriter for the 2018 movie Crazy Rich Asians, was no longer involved with writing the next two sequels in the franchise. Why? Lim reportedly learned that while her white, male co-writer was offered between $800,000 to $1 million for this work, she was offered significantly less — around $110,000.
I wasn't born a feminist. Like so many women, I had to learn how to be one — in fact, I'm still learning. If you’re also still learning, here’s a roundup of books that can help you along your journey.
I tried getting help numerous times, especially since my symptoms got worse over time. But none of the doctors I saw took me seriously.
Radhia Jerbi is a prominent Tunisian feminist and lawyer who has served as the president of the National Union of the Tunisian Woman (NUTW) since 2013. Jerbi is also a member of the Human Rights League, the Maghrebian Women’s Union for Peace and Development, and the women’s section of the Lawyers’ General Council. Jerbi recently talked to the FBomb about everything the NUTW has been doing to guarantee gender equality and a secure future for Tunisian girls and women.