In the beginning of August, 18-year-old Khadijah Mellah from Peckham, Britain, became the first jockey in her country to compete while wearing a hijab. She also won the race, which was the Magnolia Cup at Goodwood — a charity event supporting the organization Wellbeing of Women.
My great-grandmother is just one example of an underrepresented, underappreciated woman who fought her own feminist fight not in a big, public way, but bravely in her daily life. They are the feminists we never hear about, but whose voices surely deserve to be heard and celebrated.
In the recently published book There’s No Crying in Newsrooms, award-winning journalism scholars Kristin Grady Gilger and Julia Wallace investigate how gender has shaped the experiences of female journalists.
This exposure to other women in the field helped me realize that I could embrace every authentic part of myself and still succeed. In fact, I realized that in order to succeed professionally, the level of harshness I had adapted in my attempt to be more masculine was actually damaging.
Lockey is part of Open Bionics’ arms project, which employs cutting-edge 3D printing technology to make bionic arms.
Her adaptation of the film — the eighth — will not only highlight the feminist understones already present in the novel, but also examine the text with a modern eye, drawing on society’s increased sensitivity to gender fluidity.
Simone de Beauvoir was 41 years old when her most famous book, The Second Sex, was published in 1949. Over 20,000 copies of the book, which explored the meaning of being a woman, were sold in a matter of days after the book’s publication, and it soon became internationally famous.
When the first Argentinian women’s soccer league launched in 1991, the athletes involved were considered amateur and not paid. Almost 30 years later, they’re still unpaid, but that might soon change:
Charlie Martin is a British racing driver who was set to become the first trans woman to race as a support race in the world’s oldest sports endurance car racing contest: the 24 Hours of Le Mans, also known as “Grand Prix of Endurance and Efficiency.”
According to the BBC, as of 2012, the 62nd year of F1, only five women had ever entered the Grand Prix, the last of whom had competed in the 1990s.
In late February, Judge Miller ruled the male-only selective service draft unconstitutional. Miller’s ruling was a declaratory judgment, which means it does not order the government how exactly to amend the draft to make it constitutional, but it is still significant.
The results of South Africa’s 2019 general election on May 8 were promising for champions of gender equality in politics, but
In Sri Lanka, as in many other nations, women’s periods are taboo. While families celebrate when a girl bleeds for the first time, as she is seen to have come of age, every month from then on patriarchal values are applied to this natural cycle of life.
As a young girl growing up in McKinney, Texas, I always viewed Hinduism as an open-minded and accepting, kind and forgiving religion. Yet, as I grew older, I noticed these religious values were often lost in the culture surrounding modern Hinduism; instead, this culture often seemed to neglect women.
Anime is one of Japan’s main cultural exports and a large part of its cultural identity, but feminists have pointed out that the genre has long had a problematic relationship with gender and racial representations. The site Anime Feminist, founded by U.K native Amelia Cook, analyzes diversity and representation in this art form.
On April 27, thousands of people gathered in central Jakarta for the 2019 Women's March, parading in solidarity to support women's right in the archipelago and across the globe.
While Girls Who Code made it clear to participants in the program that women in STEM face obstacles in the male-dominated field, though, I didn’t fully realize at the time the extent to which gender-based discrimination is common yet deceptively subtle in the field. I learned that as a computer science major in college.
In 2018, Fabiano Contarato became the first openly gay man to be elected to the Brazilian Senate. The 52-year-old senator, who represents the state of Espírito Santo, was elected in the midst of a shift in Brazil’s political climate toward extremist and fundamentalist views; the president elected in 2018, Jair Bolsonaro, has consistently made racist and homophobic remarks and has been called “Trump of the Tropics.”
In 2019, of the 895 spots Stuyvesant High School gave to the incoming eighth-grade class, only seven were extended to black students. The year before, only 10 black students were given spots, and the class of 2021 included only 13.
Men comprise the majority of the debaters who compete in American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) events. The majority of the APDA debate teams’ leadership, as well as the members of the national organization’s executive board, are also men.
At 22 years old, standing at 5 feet, 7 inches and weighing 164 pounds, this year Harris became one of the only women to ever earn a scholarship to play college football.
Emerging feminist media platforms are helping South Asian people engage in, navigate, and mobilize feminist movements.
I recently launched the Instagram project @BeingDressCoded to create a space in which we don’t just observe individual stories about dress codes but can look for patterns and learn from a larger, collective story about sexism and sexual objectification.
It’s important for History.com to not only add more videos and audio that feature women who made a difference in history, but specifically to let these women use their own voices to tell their stories whenever possible.
Last week, federal prosecutors charged 50 people in a scheme to get the children of extremely wealthy families into elite colleges across the United States. These revelations have prompted a public discussion of the many ways inequality is perpetuated in higher education.