Presidents, TV crews and political aspirants flocked to the funeral of Coretta Scott King, but only one politician turned up to memorialize Betty Friedan. Alexander Sanger says that shows how little the feminist vote currently seems to count.
Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya has earned recognition and reprisal for her coverage of the war in Chechnya. She is unswerving in her dedication to her work, which she says offers a chance to help people face both atrocities and everyday life.
Worldwide, over 800,000 women and girls are enslaved in the sex trafficking trade. Lifetime Television is hoping to draw attention to the dark realities of the industry with a mini-series that begins tonight.
Rwanda boasts the world's highest number of women in parliament. Now, more than a decade after the genocide, female leaders are working to get more women get elected to local offices. First in a series on emerging female leaders in Africa.
Many Muslim women in the Netherlands-long a haven of tolerance-have been the victims of honor killings. Others live in fear they will be next. After months in hiding, Parliamentarian Ayaan Hirsi Ali is risking her own life to try to stop the murders.
Abe Velez writes about why he attended the March for Women's Lives last weekend in Washington, D.C., and what it meant to be a man at the historic event.
Last week's cases of male guards' abuse of female inmates spotlight the rampant mistreatment of many of the 180,000 women in our nation's prisons and jails. From strip searches, to pat-downs to rapes, it's an ongoing and overlooked national scandal.
Women's rights to work, vote, travel and drive will be on the table when Saudi Arabia holds a national conference on the status of women this month. Lifting these restrictions is not only good for women; it points the country in the right direction.
In an interview with Women's eNews, prominent feminist and human rights activist Nawal El Saadawi discusses the current crisis of Egyptian feminism and the role of progressive activists living under repressive Arab regimes.
As women's absence from Middle East political systems becomes increasingly conspicuous, female politicians and scholars in Lebanon pin the problem on a patriarchal system of political hereditary.
