Empowering women means acknowledging their agency in decisions about work, family, health and all other aspects of life. To achieve gender equality, governments and the international community must ...

Last week, the Taliban in Afghanistan published outrageous new laws on “vice and virtue” that require women to completely cover their bodies, including their faces, in public at all times. In issuing ...

I want to write this piece to express my disappointment in the regressive state of laws regarding women in the U.S. Three weeks ago, on April 9, the Arizona Supreme Court reinstated a Civil War-era ...

The comic play "Lysistrata" was written by playwright Aristophanes in 411 B.C. In it, the women of Greece, tired of their husbands making war all the time, stop offering sexual favors to their ...

A neon sign with the Iranian protest slogan "Woman Life Freedom" in Farsi and English, by Taravat Talepasand.

The spacious gardens of Giverny, France, are the inspiring gift that keeps on giving—and keeps on evolving—for experimental multi-media artist and alumnus Ja’Tovia Gary (MFA 2014 Social Documentary ...