Tabitha Haly, a woman with muscular dystrophy, discusses how she recently won her case fighting for her right to work in ...

Pop culture can be a powerful teacher, and Carpenter is rewriting the syllabus. Her latest work is doing what few pop stars ...

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The stereotypes of women of color as always being sexually available show how undervalued they are, says Jaclyn Friedman in her new book “What You Really Really Want.” In this excerpt, she explores ...

(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 ...

According to the United States Department of Labor (DOL), 22.7% of People with Disabilities (PWDs) are employed, compared to 65.6% of non-disabled people. As a result, PWDs are 2X more likely than non ...

In most U.S. states, the minimum marriage age for minors that have parental consent ranges from 12 to 17 years old. Headlines are sprouting everywhere about new court cases which may endanger Roe v ...

Women with disabilities live at the intersection of two main biases: Gender bias can also color physicians’ attitudes toward patients. For example, a 2018 study found that doctors often view men with ...

The fact that medical professionals seldom ask women whether they served in the military upon assigning them a diagnosis is just one of the reasons why many female veterans fail to receive the ...

Certainly there are differences among societies and regions of the world when it comes to domestic violence. But if we exoticize it we miss what is going on. (WOMENSENEWS)–The dramatic finale of the ...

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 ...