As International Women's Day (IWD) was celebrated on March 8, the global landscape remains a stark reminder that for millions of women’s equality is not a corporate slogan, but a matter of literal ...

Four years of war have discouraged Ukrainian and Russian women from having children, and that could impact their economies in ...

When in 1979, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini led the Islamic Revolution, opposition to the Shah united most of Khomeini’s followers. While Khomeini spoke of an Islamic democracy and insisted he had ...

As a long-time student of the polls, I am interested in how and when Americans change their minds about issues big and small. Polls can’t provide precise dates, of course, but they can get give us a ...

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These newly assumed positions have had positive impacts on gender dynamics and women’s position in society. The “cult of berehynia”, the notion of Ukrainian women as the home protectress, has weakened ...

Jennifer Greenburg has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Association of American Geographers, Stanford University, the Watson Institute ...

Editor's note: This story is part of Global Sisters Report's yearlong series "Out of the Shadows: Confronting Violence Against Women," which will focus on the ways Catholic sisters are responding to ...

The phrase “support our troops” is one that has become synonymous with the war in Iraq. And it’s a noble and just directive. But what about those who remain at home: the families, friends, and wives ...

Connecticut has a deep history with the Revolutionary War. Plenty of tales detail battles and bloodshed between colonial men and their British enemies, but what about the women? WSHU’s Molly Ingram ...