Women in the highest paid sections of the communications and media industry face an average pay gap of $13,000 a year when compared to men, according to a new report.
The Institute for Women’s Pol...
A recent ruling by Colombia’s Constitutional Court overturning an outright ban on abortion, even for victims of rape and incest, garnered headlines around the world. A story not so widely reported h...
With summer movie season upon us, a potential blockbuster opens each weekend on as many screens as possible throughout the local multiplex. By Sunday morning Hollywood executives know if they've got...
Last week, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN) announced he would bring to the floor what pro-choice advocates call a dangerous and divisive bill, the Child Custody Protection Act (CCPA). The S...
Geeta Rao Gupta, an international expert on gender issues of HIV/AIDS, was destined from an early age to work involving her passion for women’s human rights. Accepting the Working Mother Media Legac...
A third of a century after Roe v. Wade legalized abortion, women in the U.S. struggle daily to defeat federal and state infringements on reproductive rights and a woman's control over her life. But ...
At a time when some see a growing divide between religious values and contemporary culture, a group of African American church leaders are meeting this week in Washington, D.C., to narrow the gap. W...
On July 4, as the country celebrated Philippine-American Friendship Day, some 100 women, mostly members of the urban poor women’s association SAMAKANA, trooped to the Batasan (Congress) in Quezon Ci...