World
British-Iranian peace advocate Sanam Naraghi Anderlini on why the U.S.'s war on Iran could destroy years of work to improve women's lives.
Equality
Gen Z men are most likely to believe “a wife should obey her husband”, a new survey shows—as the UN warns of global “backsliding”.
Equality
Before they became marketing opportunities, International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month were milestones in a much longer and larger struggle.
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From the Indigo Girls to Lizzo, these 15 songs make us feel powerful.
From peace talks to boardrooms, women still hold vanishingly few positions in business, politics and economics, a new study has found.
My old self left the building when I received a diagnosis of Stage I breast cancer. And while it’s true I survived, I can’t bring myself to quite love the body that walked back in.
Recommendations to improve policing in the wake of Everard’s murder have yet to be implemented—meanwhile, for women, the world feels like a darker place.
These wide-ranging recommendations from The Persistent contributors may not be mainstream–yet–but they definitely deserve to be.
Better inclusion means a better party for all of us, just ask Flavor Flav.
Caroline Criado Perez’s book "Invisible Women" explains why the women of New York City are having a harder week than the men.
There's a particular combination of fear, insecurity, and doubt that shows up when you know your current professional chapter has come to an end, but you can't imagine what's next.
It's been four years Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The country is facing repeated attacks energy infrastructure and collapsing funding for women-led and women’s rights organizations.
From “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” to “Bridgerton,” here are the screen adaptations we thought trumped the book.
What a thrill to see women of a so-called “certain age” competing at the Olympics ignoring every naysayer in her way.
I’ve always thought Emily Brontë's classic was a horrible book about horrible people. But Emerald Fennell’s movie, with its moments of tenderness, has made it just a little less horrible.