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Feeling undervalued at work? Advocate for yourself like these “Game of...
When HBO submitted a roster of actors for Emmy nominations this year, Gwendoline Christie didn’t make the cut. So the Game of Thrones star, who plays the warrior Ser Brienne of Tarth, went ahead and...
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The US men’s soccer team steps up as allies in the fight for equal pay
Among the fears that stop some men from supporting equal pay is the idea that if women get paid more fairly, men will somehow lose out. This anxiety stems from a view of the workplace as a zero-sum...
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Nationalism is thriving using the very mechanism it denounces
In spring this year, the World Congress of Families—an ultra-conservative US Christian coalition whose mission is to “defend the natural family as the only fundamental and sustainable unit of...
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India’s triple talaq law has divided even those who oppose the practice
Since a law making it illegal for Muslim men to divorce their wives by pronouncing the word “talaq” three times was finally passed by the Indian parliament at the end of July, it has been the focus of...
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As a disabled woman, my abortion wasn’t questioned—but my pregnancy was
Women’s reproductive rights are a tough enough topic for any female-identifying person in the 21st century. For the disability community though, they raise a whole different set of issues. Women with...
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Can nice women get ahead at work?
If you want to give someone at work a back-handed compliment, try telling them they’re nice. As a generally sunny person whose niceness gets commented on by colleagues quite a bit, I wouldn’t say the...
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Michelle Williams’ Emmy speech shows why equal pay is good business
There are a lot of reasons to pay women fairly: legality, child poverty, basic justice. But actress Michelle Williams’ speech at the 71st Primetime Emmys on Sept. 22 highlighted one oft-overlooked...
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The many ways in which female entrepreneurs are changing patriarchal India
In India, the proportion of women in paid work is among the lowest in the world, at just over 23%—a figure which contrasts sharply with the corresponding rate of over 78% for men. Opportunities for...
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Belva Lockwood is the most badass American hero you don’t know
If you walk into the US Supreme Court building today, you will see an envelope in a glass case on which is scribbled in cursive, “In Re Lady Lawyers.” The envelope sits next to a list it contained,...
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Why are workers more resentful of criticism when the boss is a woman?
When former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright gives speeches, there’s one line she returns to again and again: “There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other.” Her...
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Feminism is rising above the capitalism that exploits it
People love to declare the end of feminism. Some recent accusations are that feminism has “sold-out,” been colonized by corporations and lost touch with its wider social change objectives. But we say:...
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Three female role models for young Indians: an educationist, a writer, and a...
A huge part of feminism also means ensuring young women have female role models. Across generations, Indian women have achieved incredible things and sparked seminal social movements. Their roles,...
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The harder I try to junk Karva Chauth, the more entangled I get in its sexist...
Over the past few days, Lovely Ladies, a WhatsApp group of women who reside in the Gurugram condominium I live in, has been abuzz. Most of the group’s 220-odd members have been spending hours sharing...
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Female astronauts schooled Trump from outer space
Women have been walking in space for decades, but there had never been a spacewalk involving more than one female astronaut at a time until this past week. On Oct. 18, NASA’s Christina Koch and Jessica...
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Why scientists ignore the top cause of traumatic brain injuries
The first time my then-partner threw me against a wall, I blamed myself. I was late coming home from work, and I hadn’t even greeted him when I walked through our door. I immediately started...
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National Geographic’s new issue shows how the world looks through women’s eyes
In 1896, a woman appeared for the first time in the pages of National Geographic. The photograph shows a Zulu bride and groom looking directly into the camera, their hands clasped together. National...
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Women are invoking the witch to find their power in a patriarchal society
“We are the granddaughters of the witches you weren’t able to burn.” Author Tish Thawer wrote the phrase in her 2015 novel The Witches of BlackBrook; since then, it has been plastered on t-shirts,...
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Step up Indian men—or we’ll live happily ever after with our careers
Something unprecedented is happening in India. Single working women, even those older than 30, are now openly contemptuous of the poor quality of available men. Not long ago, unmarried women were...
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s proudest professional moment was a loss
US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg isn’t easily stumped. But when asked to pick her greatest professional victory, she hesitates because there are many and, as she put it recently, “It’s like...
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The case against holding any more women’s rights conferences
The road that led to this week’s International Conference on Population and Development in Nairobi, the world’s largest and most important meeting on reproductive health, started in Cairo 25 years ago....
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Deloitte feels data is the new dowry, the Indian social evil that kills...
This post has been updated. What can data and a grossly patriarchal practice that murders women have in common? Nothing? Not for Jay Bhuva, though. On Nov. 26, speaking at the MarTech Mumbai 2019...
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The unsung women who helped eradicate smallpox from India
Smallpox is one of the only diseases to have been eradicated by sustained human effort. But before it was eradicated in 1977, it claimed an estimated 300 million lives in the 20th century alone. The...
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Smashboard app is using blockchain to help victims of sexual abuse in India
The internet can be a tricky place to out sexual assault offenders. Will anyone believe your story? Will you be trolled? Will the conversation endanger you further? How will your family and friends...
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Finland’s Sanna Marin, 34, will be the world’s youngest sitting prime minister
Sanna Marin, Finland’s 34-year-old transportation minister, was selected today (Dec. 8) as the country’s prime minister, making her the youngest leader to ever hold the job, and the world’s youngest...
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Mormon women are caught between economic pressures and the word of God
For more than 5,000 high schoolers applying to college each year, Brigham Young University, in Provo, Utah, checks two critical boxes: It’s an extremely good university, and its tuition fees are just...
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Indian millennials are borrowing more to fund their weddings, instead of...
Weddings are, for the most part, a gala affair in India. And Indian millennials no longer want to blow up their parents’ savings for this. A growing number of young men and women in India are applying...
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The secret feminist history of the US Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court didn’t always stand on the land where it’s now situated, as the Architect of the Capitol website explains. What official accounts don’t reveal, however, is that the government took...
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How SCOTUS justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg accidentally scandalized Equal Rights...
US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a giant of jurisprudence with impeccable feminist credentials. Yet she upset some legal commentators this week with a statement about the Equal Rights...
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The hottest seat in Washington, DC this week is at the US Supreme Court
You don’t always need to camp for days on the sidewalk to grab a seat at a US Supreme Court hearing. But this week, this winter, is different.On March 4 the justices are hearing arguments in one of the...
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We’re all living in “The Yellow Wallpaper” now
Being stuck at home can drive a person mad. That’s one of big takeaways from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1892 short story “The Yellow Wallpaper,” in which a woman, diagnosed by her physician husband as...
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A movement to pass mothers’ last names to their children is gaining traction...
A Chinese woman divorced her husband last month, partly she said, because they disagreed about whether their son would carry his or her name. Eventually she agreed their son would use a hyphenated...
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The case for a new Democratic presidential nominee
Former vice president Joe Biden is the “presumptive” Democratic nominee for president. This presumption is problematic for voters, although it was convenient for the party to quickly weed out choices...
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Why US businesses are opining on a Supreme Court case about contraception
On May 6, the US Supreme Court will hear arguments in two cases about the Trump administration’s expansion of the “conscience” exemptions to contraception coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)....
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RBG says women are being “tossed to the wind” in Supreme Court birth control...
The US Supreme Court today heard oral arguments in controversial cases about religious and moral objections to contraception coverage under the Affordable Care Act. The Trump administration expanded...
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How men in Latin America are unlearning machismo
In January, Freddy Contreras, the leader of a well-known Colombian taxi union, made headlines after he released a video mocking women Uber drivers, saying they should work as cleaners instead. In early...
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The MoMA Design store spotlights women’s products not designed by men
From torturous breast pumps to medieval menstrual products and unsavory sex toys, women’s products have a long history of being poorly conceived by committees of men. But over the past few years, a...
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Citigroup’s new CEO is a reminder not to keep high-achieving women waiting in...
Jane Fraser made history today with the news that she will become the first woman to head a major US bank. The Scotland-born McKinsey consultant turned financial executive will succeed Michael Corbat...
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Sex doesn’t sell after all
A woman in a bikini making out with a bottle of cold medicine. A manicured hand attempting to caress a dollop of ketchup. These are the kinds of advertisements that denizens of 21st-century consumer...
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The way we run meetings now is hell for working moms
Meetings are a giant time suck. Knowledge workers in the 21st century typically resign themselves to this fact and accept that they’ll lose hours each week to watching their colleagues explain business...
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What cool means now
For more than two decades, Joel Dinerstein, a cultural historian and professor of English at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, has been asking his students who and what they consider cool....
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The UK figured out how to design safer streets for women in the 1980s—and...
Lights, cameras, cops.These are among the new safety measures the British government introduced this week, amid the clamor for safer streets after the abduction and murder of Sarah Everard, 33, this...
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Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi showed a generation of female writers how...
“They said, ‘you are a savage and dangerous woman.’ I am speaking the truth. And the truth is savage and dangerous.” This line from the novel Woman at Point Zero, by Egyptian doctor, feminist and...
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What ever happened to Sheryl Sandberg?
When Adam Grant asks his students at Wharton to name a leader they admire, Sheryl Sandberg’s name always comes up. “There’s usually not even another woman mentioned,” says Grant, a professor and...
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How to run a feminist company
Chastened by the realities laid bare by the pandemic, a lot of companies are embracing fresh-start affirmations and promising newly enlightened, gentler, more equitable workplaces.Let’s imagine we can...
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Why abortion rights are a workplace issue
There are a lot of reasons to be worried about the future of legal abortion in the US right now. The conservative-majority Supreme Court appears ready to uphold a Mississippi law that bans abortion...
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Foreign brands are getting caught in China’s online gender wars
China has long been a political minefield for foreign brands, which have had to walk a fine line on geopolitical issues that are sensitive to Beijing to protect their business interests. Now, China’s...
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Naomi Osaka is asking China about missing tennis player Peng Shuai
Two weeks ago, Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai took to Weibo to accuse a retired high-ranking Communist Party official of pressuring her into sex. Her post, and discussions of it, were quickly wiped off...
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Weibo censored a famous novelist who voiced her anger over China’s inhumanity...
Chinese-American author Geling Yan has long been known for her fiction that depicts the suffering and striving of Chinese women. Now Yan is being censored for her outspokenness on a woman’s fate.In...
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Beijing’s desire for more births is up against a more feminist nation
When several provinces in China announced plans to offer an extended mandatory maternity leave late last year, their target audience was less than pleased. Instead of embracing the new policy, many...
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It’s not too late for Sheryl Sandberg to rehabilitate her image
As Sheryl Sandberg steps down from Meta after 14 years as one of the most high-powered women in business, speculation is rampant over what she’ll do next.Sandberg herself says her immediate plans are...
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