“Food stamps gave me the time to rebuild my life. Using hunger as political leverage isn’t fiscal policy. It’s a moral ...

"Food stamps gave me the time to rebuild my life. Using hunger as political leverage isn’t fiscal policy. It’s a moral failure." ...

To enable and empower our voices even further, Women’s eNews will be launching a new series, Her-Story, to provide ...

The United Nations’ Gender Snapshot 2025 is out, and the numbers are grim: Women have broken barriers in education but remain sidelined in leadership, holding only 27.2% of parliamentary seats, 30% of ...

Women with disabilities live at the intersection of two main biases: Gender bias can also color physicians’ attitudes toward patients. For example, a 2018 study found that doctors often view men with ...

When I had my son two years ago, I came home with my husband and a tiny newborn to an otherwise empty house and had my first-ever panic attack. Having never struggled with severe anxiety, I was ...

Credit: Keerthivasan Rajamani/keerth on Flickr, under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). (WOMENSENEWS)–Rosa Parks‘ most historic hour may have occurred on the bus in December 1955 but a moment that ...

(WOMENSENEWS)–Breast milk is the most local of all foods and one that can have an outsized impact on the health of mothers and infants. However, for many African American parents finding a maternity ...

In her recent address before the United Nations Security Council, the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten delivered a searing account of the devastating and shocking ...