Brazil’s Congress passed a bill imposing fines on companies paying women lower wages than men for the same work. The measure approved Tuesday is expected to be...
The Arizona Senate has has approved legislation that will let doctors lie about an unborn child’s health and escape any related “wrongful birth” suits, which...
A respected medical journal is distancing itself from a controversial study it published that established a link between abortion and mental illness. The study, which...
By Melissa Blanco Borelli I like to have sex, and lots of it. The kind of back arching, toe curling sex that is non-missionary and...
Today, in partnership with more than 200 organizations and individuals, TFW is blogging for social justice. Gender Across Borders and CARE are sponsoring the Third...
By Lizeth Lopez Butterflies flutter around me as I feel the soft winds playing with my hair, the scent of spring flowers blooming surround me,...
By Janeth Silva Each morning as I enter the prison-like gates of Gardena High School, I see our dean, Mr. Sieslove, with his metal detector...
By Vali Forrister When my niece, Haviland, was 12 years old, she shared her poetry with me for the first time. I told her it...
A fabulous poem for International Women’s Day 2012. This time a poem inspired by, and dedicated to, Maya Angelou and phenomenal women everywhere. ...
George Clinton and other funky beats blazed in the background of the chashama gallery in Harlem while the dandy, the boho, the skater, the undefinable...
Maria das Gracas Foster has been named the head CEO of Latin America‘s largest firm, the Brazilian oil company Petrobras. Foster is a veteran of Petrobras and...
By Gwendoline Y. Fortune Food and love, who (and what) we vote for, what we deem good or bad, what we want and hate—all rise...
The European Union is moving closer to introducing mandatory quotas for the number of women on company boards after businesses failed to make sufficient progress...
Last September, Barbara Blaine, president of the Survivor’s Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), teamed with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) to persuade the International Criminal Court...
By Soraya Chemaly Rush Limbaugh’s limp quasi-apology to Sandra Fluke isn’t good enough. Clear Channel Communications, the largest radio station owner in the US, should fire him...
Some feminist satire for Friday! To vajazzle or not to vajazzle? That is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of a plain vagina, Or to take arms against a sea of glittering vulva, And by opposing end them? To die: to bling no more; and by not bling to say we end the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks that labia is heir to. ‘Tis a consummation devoutly to be wish’d. ...
Following an 18-month inquiry, a parliamentary committee in Australia recommended that 150,000 women should receive a formal apology for actions committed against them during the...
The statute of limitations would no longer apply to the crime of rape under legislation introduced by Assemblyman Anthony Portantino (D – La Cañada Flintridge)....