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In public events Donald Trump has displayed the traits of a dominant masculinity. Yet the American president’s policies represent an anthropological and ecological model that’s outdated.
TV commercials continue to traffic in outmoded gender roles, relegating women to the home. A media scholar explains how these stereotypical portrayals can fuel workplace harassment by powerful men.
Offering money as a form of atonement is easier for the movie mogul than finding someone who will accept it.
Seventy-five percent of all abortions in Latin America are illicit. In Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador, where abortion is totally illegal, the bans correlate with a generalized failure of the rule of law.
Saudi Arabia is in deep trouble on various fronts, so an international PR coup surely can’t hurt.
Striking a better gender balance would be easy, but until now universities have not been paying much attention to the problem.
Voting on this issue is a matter of conscience, so the MP’s view that women shouldn’t be allowed to terminate pregnancies, even when they’ve been raped, is very relevant to the rest of society.
Leia’s little-known academic standing can help challenge patriarchal notions about gender roles.
After a fierce debate, one of the most restrictive reproductive laws in the world has been eased.
‘Creepshots’ are provoking questions concerning rights to privacy in public, and ethical concerns regarding technology and bodily autonomy.
By speaking their truths in societies that would rather not know, queer painters, female rappers and other outsider artists are pushing the bounds of gender and sexuality in the developing world.
Troupes of women in flowing red capes are turning up all over the US to remind us that reproductive rights are under threat.
Demilitarised female guerrillas in Colombia are hoping to spark a new women’s movement based in the FARC’s revolutionary ideals.
Having the same number of Cabinet positions doesn’t mean women have the same amount of power.
New research shows young women experience street harassment about once every two days.
Who is responsible for this problem? Research indicates that it’s often the victims’ own colleagues, and that aid agencies don’t do enough to stop it.
For millions of girls and women, menstruation is a burden. Here’s why helping displaced and poor women and girls with their periods is a way to show true respect for them.
Here’s how we can make families work better for women in the 21st century.
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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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
