In Afghanistan, where girls are barred from secondary education, an underground network of home-based schools is preparing ...

Misinformation and false claims about the safety of abortion are proliferating and becoming key components in legislation, ...

Ameshia has significant experience working in communications and advocacy campaigns in her hometown, Chicago and nationwide, with roles focused on education, environment and healthcare policy ...

Julie Burton, President and CEO of the Women’s Media Center (WMC), released a statement on behalf of the Women’s Media Center ...

At the end of March, as Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 cases surpassed the 100 mark, garment workers at the Katunayake Free Trade Zone — the country’s largest such zone where the majority of workers are women — ...

Download The Status of Women in U.S Media 2019 here. “The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2019” shows that despite some gains, men still dominate in every part of news, entertainment and digital ...

"The Status of Women in the U.S. Media 2021” is comprised of 109 studies and reports, including original research by the Women’s Media Center and aggregated research from academia, industry and ...

What are the roles for women and girls in science fiction and superhero films and television? Are they visible? Are they powerful? Are they inclusive? What does their representation, voice share, ...

Much confusion swirls around when rape was actually recognized as a war crime. Try Googling “rape as a war crime” and you’ll find the third result is a Huffington Post article declaring that it was ...

The following feature is being co-published by Ms. magazine and the Women’s Media Center. It also appears in the Spring 2023 issue of Ms., and an excerpt is posted on the Ms. website. Both Ms. and the ...

I was only 6 years old when my family was forced to flee the civil war in Afghanistan for Pakistan in the late 1980s. My sister, Neelo, who is five years older than me, was enrolled in a Saudi-funded ...

As women, girls, and activists recently gathered virtually and in person for the UN Women’s Generation Equality Forum in Paris to put forth recommendations and financial commitments toward achieving ...