Perhaps that is why women’s literacy rate is 17 percentage points below men’s: the less they know, the better it is for the ...

What is patriarchy? According to Wikipedia “Patriarchy is a social system in which men typically hold authority and ...

Mohammad Rasoulof's provocative film has been banned in Iran, but Germany has submitted it for Oscar consideration ...

These schemes are easy to implement and popular enough with voters to possibly play a role in election results, but they’re ...

While the government has promised to bring perpetrators to justice, systemic change requires more than legal action.

Patriarchy would have you believe that women are inherently complicated—creatures who must be defined, boxed in, or reduced ...

Women’s health suffers more than men’s health for two reasons: one, because of, unfortunately, the lower status of women in ...

The current political climate in the United States has turned the female body into a contested terrain. However, this year’s ...

Worrisome phrases like “Your Body, My Choice” and “Go Back to the Kitchen” are surging rampantly on social media, threatening ...

Anthologies on Poets.org may not be curated by the Academy of American Poets staff. To make you feel better about who we truly are. Because honestly there’s nothing good about any of us. See from the ...

Iranian Ahou Daryaei has recently joined the ranks of women who have used their bodies to challenge the physical and symbolic ...

This is what patriarchy driven to its limits does ... Protesters started chanting for “Kosova Republikë” — for Kosovo to be ...