This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Public sexual harassment is an issue in every society. But misogyny and sexual harassment in public has been so normalised that often bringing up the issue of behaviour such as…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As we confront the many inequities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, The New Deal, the Roosevelt administration’s sweeping policy response to the Great Depression of the 1930s, should be an…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. How does “Build Back Better” mean for women who are being displaced into poverty and experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles? I have witnessed firsthand the systemic barriers that this population…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There are many obstacles in finding a job in the United States. Some of these obstacles are socially constructed, such as more household responsibilities shouldered by women compared to men. Other obstacles…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Forty years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Black women continue to bear the highest burden of HIV among women. Although Black women represent only 13% of the female population, they accounted…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While most first-year college students in a new study had positive feelings about computing and computer-related majors and jobs, gender and socioeconomic status seemed to play a role in whether…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Imagine a room full of university students in India: young men and women sitting shoulder to shoulder in equal numbers. Fast forward 10 years: 8 out of 10 of those…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. More than 80 percent of Indigenous women in the United States have experienced violence in their lifetime. Indigenous women in the United States are going missing and getting murdered, at…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Use of antiretroviral treatments to prevent HIV infection – called pre-exposure prophylaxis or PrEP – is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last month, I had the opportunity to join a passionate panel of advocates and experts at the inaugural TIME 100 Health Summit, to discuss both the strategy and urgency needed…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Less than one in five female frontline health workers say protective clothing fits them properly, according to a survey from the Women in Global Health network. Just 14 per cent…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A new study finds positive and negative health effects for African American women who use a “Superwoman” persona to cope with the stress of discrimination. The Superwoman persona refers to…