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The Tim Tebow commercial is no departure at all for viewers of the big game.

To consider honor killing within Muslim communities a crime unto itself overlooks the patriarchal roots of much of the intimate partner violence perpetrated in the Western world.

How far have women come if a country like Canada permits a father to imprison his daughter in the cage of Saudi laws?

The first decade of filmmaking belonged to one woman alone: Alice Guy Blaché.

Feminist highs and lows of the first decade of the 2000s.

Incarcerated women have achieved a string of victories against inhumane treatment in childbirth. But what about access to healthcare for all pregnant women in prison, not just those in labor?

Can a tax on breast enhancements and liposuction be channeled to benefit the public good?

We can't stop looking at our first female political train wreck.

A Canadian judge allows the International Olympic Committee to trump Canadian equal rights law and keep women ski jumpers out of the Vancouver Olympics.

"Mainstreaming" a focus on women into all of the United Nations' work never happened. So will an agency for women ever get off the ground?