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The Helms Amendment bans the use of US foreign aid for all abortion care, including for victims of sexual assault. This International Women's Day, it's time to remember their plight.

Feminists were quick—too quick—to question the Facebook COO's motives for writing Lean In, her self-help manifesto.

Socially conservative American Catholics and evangelicals who have led a decades-long campaign against the rights of women in the United States are now gearing up for a season of battles on the bigger global stage.

The Sundance-to-Oscar pipeline has been great for independent film directors—at least the male ones.

The last century—and the next—of women’s struggle for justice.

If the Catholic Church is to change, the first thing that needs to happen is no pope, and certainly not an infallible one.

She vowed to make women’s rights a cornerstone of US foreign policy. How did she do?

Rape culture exists because we don't believe it does. Here's how to empower men and women to change the status quo.

Now that women will be on the front lines in combat, maybe the country is finally ready to put gender equality in the Constitution.

After the 2012 elections, women in Washington have a long to-do list—and it doesn’t stop at reproductive rights.