Women & Girls

Laws and regulations encourage institutionalized gender discrimination and inequality in Iran, ranging from differences in teaching boys and girls to extreme cases such as honor killings. This piece discusses how…

Traditional gender ideologies condition and limit women’s empowerment in Cameroon. These gender ideologies ascribe dominance and powerful positions to men and subservient social positions to women. This binary pairing fails…

By removing the word “elimination” from Indonesia’s proposed sexual violence bill, the nation no longer seeks to stop sexual violence, but merely punish it. While there have been small gender…

In Afghanistan, stalling peace talks, the growing leverage of the Taliban, and the dwindling support of the international coalition put advancements made in women’s rights in the past two decades…

The COVID-19 pandemic highlights the important intersections of climate change, food security, migration, and socio-economic inequalities. An understanding of the gendered dimensions of these interconnected global concerns is crucial…

One casualty of Venezuela’s ongoing humanitarian crisis has been women’s access to contraception. Any meaningful effort to work through the crisis smartly and seriously must start with family planning investments,…

Six years after all combat positions were opened to women, the legality of a male-only draft registration awaits a potential Supreme Court review. Beyond this existing institutional constraint, a number…

The US Global Fragility Strategy is an unparalleled opportunity for the United States to lead a global effort to end violent conflict. However, this strategy—and all ensuing foreign…

Mexican feminists have used the hashtag “la policía no me cuida, me cuidan mis amigas” (police do not protect me, my female friends do) to denounce and document sexual abuse…

In December 2020, legislators in Argentina made the historic decision to legalize abortion. While the executive branch of government promoted the initiative and the resulting policy change, this…