The “gender gap” refers to the roughly 3.9 billion women on our planet who do not have the same access to education, health care, economic opportunities, or political empowerment as their male counterparts.
I am one of the six girls in a class of 45 students at my engineering college, and as confident as I am in my abilities, it’s hard to shake my imposter syndrome when I look around my classrooms.
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.
These characters’ journeys expose our culture’s ridiculous link between relationship status and total happiness
This year, CES allowed a female-led and oriented sex tech companies to appear at the show.
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.
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.
Ultimately, the impact of representation in movies benefits so many more women than just those in the film industry. When more women are represented, little girls who watch that representation can imagine themselves taking on those roles one day.
Even before the media gave these women’s political visions a chance, it has largely narrowed in on evaluating whether these women possess a single quality — one that they seem to care about only when it comes to female candidates: their likability.
“Sex Hurts” is the first episode of “Bodies,” a podcast produced by Allison Behringer that delves into some of the physiological experiences women commonly have but individually find mysterious.
After my sister was diagnosed with breast cancer at 28, I wanted to get genetically tested to understand my own risk. I soon found out that insurance companies will not cover the genetic testing that could potentially allow me to take agency over my own health.
We need to change the message we’re sending kids at a young age. it is necessary to provide children with books and media that provide positive representations of gender equality, and do not associate particular abilities or responsibilities with any gender.
My experiences with travel have been inextricable from my gender; traveling has made me the woman I am today.
When marginalized folks find ourselves confronted with a privileged person who, malevolently or not, is completely unaware of and abusing that privilege, we are often caught between not wanting to take the time and effort of teaching those people how to behave better, and wanting to open up a space for a productive discussion.
In Nigeria, adulterous men are commonly excused and the blame for their actions is placed squarely on women.
I began to feel like being fat was my fault, that it was a personal failure. Eventually, my only goal was to be thin, thinner, thinnest. Even when I lost weight, however, I still couldn’t please my critics.
Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women’s Pain is Norman’s exploration of her own experience with pain — specifically, doctors' failure to get to the bottom of it as well as their suggestions that the pain was "all in her head."
Here are some of the hardships you could encounter in the workplace and the best methods for overcoming them.
Sexist dress codes are yet another way our society sexualizes young women and tells them that they need to modify their bodies to prevent other people's discomfort.
Despite the way they treated me, none of the individuals I served could take away the power I still had — power I earned — at work.
Medeiros is the supervisor of the wrestling program at São Paulo’s Training and Research Olympic Center (Centro Olímpico de Treinamento e Pesquisa or COTP) in Brazil. She is also the first African-Brazilian woman to serve in this role.
Women’s health is not only currently under attack, but not even prioritized where still accessible.