February is a good month to explore this topic, considering that it is Valentine's Day on Monday and much of our collective thinking is directed towards the celebration (or search) for love. We all...
Poco Kernsmith, Wayne State University; Erin B. Comartin, Wayne State University, and Sheryl Kubiak, Wayne State University British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell has been convicted for her role in...
While women have increasingly assumed professional leadership positions, not all sectors have been open to the possibility of breaking down stereotypes. Instead, many continue to put down obstacles...
If you had told 13-year-old me that I would be voluntarily reading a nonfiction book on rationality and altruism, I would have probably laughed in your face. Yet, here I am, 4 years later,...
After I saw the photos of Masoumeh Ataei as a model for the first time, I was shocked. "What happened to her?" I asked myself, staring at the burns and scars on her face, which contrasted with the...
While many of us have known that Britney Spears was living under a conservatorship for several years now, I don’t think many of us had realized the extent of it, and the extent of the abuse she has...
Amina Yaqin, SOAS, University of London Imran Khan, the prime minister of Pakistan, has caused an uproar with remarks about sexual violence, attributing the rising number of reports of rape in...
Claire Pierson, University of Liverpool Abortion was decriminalised in Northern Ireland in October 2019. In March the following year, the legal framework was in place to provide terminations. A year...
There has been an increase in violence against women during the pandemic. As couples had to stay at home, the stress of being isolated raised the chance of spousal conflicts. In Indonesia, as of...
At the end of October - and in the face of the coronavirus crisis, as well as counter-demonstrations by nationalists - Warsaw came alive with protestors fighting for women’s rights. In the largest...
