The nation needs a more comprehensive approach to family leave and relief for parents with child care expenses. But the proposals the Trump team rolled out initially fell short.
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Despite a wave of hope sparked by the Arab Spring, women have found themselves marginalised once again by regimes with little interest in rights and equality
With a new TV series based on the novel - and its bleak vision of women’s rights - The Handmaid’s Tale is riding a new wave of popularity.
The clash over South Africa’s Traditional Courts Bill is essentially about custom and constitutionalism. The government is often seen as pandering to traditional leaders’ whims.
African countries are bound by continental law to put aside funds for the protection of women’s rights, but very few have managed to put their gender-budgeting guidelines into practice
In 15th and 16th century France, two female textile guilds - comprised of single women and wives working independently of their husbands - wielded great power. By the end of the 18th century, they had been dismantled.
Afghanistan’s challenges in 2017 will not be new ones, but those that have lingered from many years of war and violence. They involve armed conflict with the Taliban and related issues of terrorism, attacks…
Zika is not gender neutral: women’s rights are at stake.
The recent burqa ban in Morocco highlights tensions between radical Salafists and a moderate Islamic government that has taken steps to further women’s rights.
Donald Trump has done what decades of American feminism could not: unite women worldwide in solidarity.
Clinton won women by 12 points and lost men by 12 – creating a 24-point ‘gender gap.’ While that’s the largest gender gap in history, the record shows that female voters were always different.
A proposed budget freeze would hurt everyone, but history shows women take the hardest hit.
A sinister Hillary Clinton dominated conservative media, but also appeared in mainstream journalism. Why?
How are we to understand why people in different parts of the world continue to demand and participate in transitional justice institutions and processes in spite of the shortcomings?
Trump’s rhetoric on the campaign trail was toxic. His victory means women will suffer the fallout.
There have been efforts to include women in West Bank politics, but they’ve fallen short. Activists are trying to change things.
A popular protest forced the government back down on its proposed ban, but Poland still has savagely restrictive abortion laws.
If women aren’t given their full rights, they’re less likely to believe in democratic institutions.
Turkey’s high cesarean rates cannot be tackled by top-down restrictive laws.
The author of a new book on Clinton’s global impact sees two factors behind her strong foreign policy stance.
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Associate Professor of International Relations and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Agnes Scott College
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Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, Concordia University
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, McGill University
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Ph.D candidate, INSPIRE Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Sciences Po
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Director, Center for Afghanistan Studies, University of Nebraska Omaha
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Professor of Law, University of Bristol
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Ph.D. Candidate, University of Arizona
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Professor, Université Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah
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Dean of Programs, EM Lyon Business School
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Reader in Law, Cardiff University
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Lecturer in Comparative Politics, University of Bath
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Director, Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World, Lebanese American University
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Assistant Professor, School for Global Inclusion and Social Development, UMass Boston
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Professor of Global Politics, University of Southampton
