Once again, men outnumber women on the Art Review's Power 100 list - further proof, if you need it, of the lack of equality in the art world.
Don't blame Islam for the plight of women in the Middle East. Blame oil.
Support for gender equality appears to be declining across Britain and America amid concern that women who play a full role in the workforce do so at the expense of family life, research from Cambridge University suggests today.
As it now stands, California's November ballot will introduce Proposition 8 with these words: "Eliminates Right of Same-Sex Couples to Marry." On Tuesday, proponents of the proposition went to court to change that "inflammatory" language, saying it will unfairly influence voters …
This article recapitulates some thoughts that occurred to me in considering Eric Atienza's article on Orson Scott Card's screed on the evils of gay marriage. I thought it important to collect those thoughts in one location.
Until recently, the impact of Title IX, the law forbidding sexual discrimination in education, has been limited mostly to sports.
Globally, boys tend to outperform girls in maths (on average girls score 10.5 points lower than boys) but in more "gender equal societies" such as Iceland, Sweden and Norway, girls scored as well as boys or better.
Single-sex education has long been part of the private school scene in Milwaukee and nationwide. But single-sex classes in public schools are relatively new.
[Article by: Lenora M. Lapidus & Posted March 07th 2008]
A Texas woman who said she was forced to remove a nipple ring with pliers in order to board an airplane called Thursday for an apology by federal security agents and a civil rights investigation.
A woman was beaten up and shot dead by her father for talking online with a man she met on the website Facebook. The case was reported on a Saudi Arabian news site as an example of the "strife" the social networking site is causing in the Islamic nation.
In the LA Times yesterday, Representative Jane Harman (D-CA), who chairs the House Homeland Security subcommittee on intelligence, put a light toward the shocking number of sexual assults on women serving in the military.
As part of its effort to promote social, economic, and cultural diversity in the international community, the Gstaad Project has release the "The Pink Book on the status of women delegates at the United Nations," known as the Pink Book.
Given adequate food, fuel, and gender equality, mass conflict just might disappear.
The International Declaration of Women's Day this month, purports to enshrine the essence and importance of womanhood, of the gentler sex.
After airing a video clip of Sen.
THE woman in question became a lawyer after some years as a community organizer, married a corporate lawyer and is the mother of two little girls, ages 9 and 6.
A comic to brighten your gloomy Monday morning.
In a first for the prestigious Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology for U.S. high school students, girls walked away with top honors in both the individual and team categories.
Nowadays, women are just as likely to hold positions of power as men. However, they still make substantially less than their male counterparts, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The authors also tested the validity of feminist stereotypical beliefs amongst their two samples, based on the hypothesis that if feminist stereotypes are accurate, then feminist women should be more likely to report themselves as being single, lesbian, or sexually unattractive, …
Research Shows Religious Faith May Not Be Correct Road To Societal Health If this often-touted religious theory were correct-that a turning away from God is at the root of all societal ills-then we would expect to find the least religious nations on earth to be bastions of crime …
A somewhat controversial critique, but at the very least one that gives some very poignant insights into the role of men in society. In many respects, men are either at the top or the very bottom, with women tending to be less skewed at the extremities on so many measures.
Residents of T section in Umlazi, Durban, South Africa, are adamant that women should not wear pants in the area. A unanimous decision to uphold the ban on trousers was taken at a meeting on Sunday, which reportedly went on for nearly four hours
Young women in New York and several of the nation's other largest cities who work full time have forged ahead of men in wages, according to an analysis of recent census data.