Africa has seen the highest growth among businesses run by women in recent years. This would appear to be good news: entrepreneurship is...

Although the world of English football has long been considered a man’s world, women now make up a sizeable proportion of football...

A record number of women were sworn into Congress on Jan. 3. The influx of women candidates helped turn the midterm election into what...

For years, feminists in Myanmar have been fighting to gain even the most basic legal rights for women. Spousal abuse is still legal in...

The gender gap in math and science isn’t going away. Women remain less likely to enroll in math-heavy fields of study and pursue...

The #metoo movement has brought the widespread sexual harassment experienced by women in the workplace to the fore. Women in...

Africa is experiencing a demographic and nutrition transition. More and more people are moving to urban areas. Slum communities currently...

There is a stubborn stereotype that maths and science are masculine. But researchers studied school grades of more than 1.6 million...

It is an historic moment for Liberal Party women. Individual complaints of sexist bullying invariably end with the lone complainant being...

The inequality between men and women in India is stark, and nowhere more so than on the streets of its cities, which are undeniably the...

Economic empowerment programs that target women may have an unintended effect: They help men instead. A growing number of economic...

One woman or girl is killed every other day in Canada. This is not a new fact nor does it represent a new trend. For 40 years, this fact...

Gender-equal governments, which include the same number of men and women as ministry heads and in other cabinet posts, used to be the...

Australia’s record on women’s rights is being reviewed by the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women...

Recent terrorist attacks such as the one in London inevitably lead to coverage of Islamist ideology, Muslim culture and Muslim women’s...

Heart disease is the No. 1 cause of death for women throughout the world. Approximately seven times more women will die from heart...

In many parts of the world, the human placenta (the after birth) is discarded once a baby is born and considered waste. The focus is on...

Yemeni women take part in a sit-in and a protest against the ongoing conflict in the Arab country, outside the UN offices in Sana'a,...

Catherine Wolf, Programme Analyst with UN Women’s Fund for Gender Equality, and Zabel Hayruni of Green Lane talking to  beneficiaries in...

Imagine going through your day without access to clean, safe water in your home for drinking, cooking, washing or bathing whenever you...