Self-determination has been consistently recognized as an important factor in successful transition from school to adulthood.

Dr. Allison Cowett, medical director at Family Planning Associates, discusses how Illinois clinics are becoming overburdened ...

As the Taliban flees Kabul, an Afghan woman at a Cambridge peace conference provides a series of guidelines for those involved in the peace process, which she insists should include women. She adds: ...

Commander Esther, wearing an embroidered blouse and a black ski-mask, declared the Zapatista rebels would lay down their arms if the government gave more autonomy to her region and advanced the rights ...

(WOMENSENEWS)–The Miss America Pageant has always revealed the nation’s attitude toward women. Originally a bathing suit contest on the beach, it began in 1921 as an attempt by Atlantic City ...

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 ...

(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 ...

As the government wipes important sexual health information from official websites and targets research funding simply for the presence of words like “women” and “sex,” it’s more important than ever ...

(WOMENSENEWS)—When I was 18 years old, I fell in love. I had met a man near the University of Oregon campus who seemed to love me as much as I loved him. Even though I was a promising high school ...

HILLSDALE, N.J. (WOMENSENEWS)–Some of the most famous TED Talks are from recognizable names — Monica Lewinsky, Elizabeth Gilbert, Al Gore – but others are from girls like Caitlin Haacke and Sophie ...

On his very first day in office, President Donald Trump fired Admiral Linda Fagan, the first woman in American history to lead a branch of the armed forces. She was evicted from her residence with ...