Commentary and Analysis

Ensuring women's access to information, training, and technology can ensure land and resources alike are used more sustainably.

Women and girls make up 60 percent of the world's chronically hungry population and are 10 percent more likely than men to experience food insecurity.

Dr. Alaa Murabit discusses gender equality.

Hoda Muthana's and Shamima Begum's requests to return to their home countries after joining ISIS have put women’s roles in terrorism at the center of popular news and conversations about violent extremism.

In late February, a group of global women leaders signed an open letter, calling for government and private sector leaders to take legal and social action to promote gender inclusion and female empowerment.

Eleven female lawmakers, journalists and scholars weigh in.

Once we learned that one of the most often-cited statistics about women is fabricated—scholars and practitioners alike were shocked.

The United States needs to do more to ensure women are equally represented in legislative bodies.

Citizens feel  disregarded and disempowered, motivating them to engage in demonstrations like the "yellow vest"  movement in France,  Black Lives Matter  in the United States, and the  #MeToo movement globally.

Researchers found that nations with higher rates of violence against women also had higher risks of conflict and instability and that when women were part of peacemaking, that peace was more durable.