19+ min ago  (1293+ words) At 3: 00 a. m. , long before the sun rises over the mountains of central Haiti, Mirlanda Sully is already at work. In the darkness, she measures rice, sorts beans and packs flour, preparing goods to sell later that day in the market. Then…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1077+ words) Since our last report " + Texas Tech University has adopted a new university-wide policy that effectively bans the teaching and any research on LGBTQ+ topics in all its academic programs. Critics call these strict prohibitions an attack on women and gender…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (635+ words) As another recent domestic violence homicide-by-strangulation in the Punjabi Sikh community (in a West Coast city otherwise comparatively resourced with feminist organizations) went entirely unreported outside the cultural community, we are reminded of missed opportunities for identifying risks and proposing…...

5+ day, 3+ hour ago  (380+ words) This story was originally published by the Daily Hampshire Gazette, "Your Tax Dollars Are Funding the Patriarchal Family'Courtesy of Trump." "One in three Americans are under-babied," said Trump's Medicare and Medicaid chief Dr. Mehmet Oz last week, echoing JD Vance's…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago  (422+ words) This article was originally published by The Contrarian. Lately we have seen its toll on the advancement of longstanding legislative and regulatory initiatives. Among them: Last week, Democrats uniformly rejected a bill that would have identified a site on the…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago  (427+ words) Although I didn't win (which by that point I was prepared for, given everything that had happened), this experience illuminated personally what it was like to run for public office and why so many women, especially Black women, struggle to…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago  (466+ words) Attacks on the legitimacy of U. S. elections is steadily moving beyond political rhetoric into political tactics as some government actors are testing the boundaries of election oversight in ways that could undermine public trust. Recently, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco seized…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago  (778+ words) Originally published by Pass Blue, a women-led nonprofit newsroom that covers the U. N. and global women's rights. There is no shortage of cases of torture in the headlines. The details are grim, as always: abuse behind closed doors, lives irrevocably altered,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (919+ words) As we pause to mark Memorial Day on Monday, I'm thinking about the women affected by war'whether they're fighting on the front lines, working in the service as nurses, or civilians saddled with the consequences of wars started by men…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (1003+ words) This essay is part of an'ongoing'Ms.'series'examining the real-world impact of'President Donald Trump's proposed fiscal year 2027 budget. Across sectors'from healthcare and childcare to immigration enforcement and food assistance'the series explores what the administration's funding priorities reveal about who government serves,…...