Technology’s impingement on the urban female sanitation worker in India
While three-fourths of the world’s population has access to a basic sanitation service, only about half of the world’s population
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Op-Eds and Commentaries
More Than a Numbers Game: Gender Quotas in Africa’s Parliaments
2020 MARKS THE twenty-fifth anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, a seminal moment when world leaders committed
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The Indian Ban on Commercial Surrogacy
Introduction The usage of assisted reproductive technology (ART) has grown immensely around the world, and future increases are expected.[i]
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It’s Time for a U.S. Feminist Foreign Policy
Women leaders around the world are being disproportionately recognized for their skilled responses to the coronavirus crisis. These women
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COVID-19: Making Visible the Invisible Survivor
The COVID-19 pandemic has left more than half of humanity confined to their homes. Governments have asked and, in
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Solitary Confinement is Torture, Not Protection
Ellie,[1] a young trans woman from Central America, sits across a small table from me in blue men’s scrubs,
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Toward an LGBTQ+ Inclusive History Curriculum in Massachusetts
In my senior year of high school, I spent months gathering everything I could find on LGBTQ+ history for
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The Invisible Work of Girls: Inside the Life of Female Child Labor in Ghana
*The names of the subjects in this article have been changed to protect their identity. A heavy stench of
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Fetal Heartbeat Bills Protect No One
Katya* was on her fifth pregnancy and still without a child. When I met her this summer on the
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Reprogramming the Patriarchy: Combatting Gender Bias in Machine Learning
The media narrative on artificial intelligence (AI) is not far removed from the plot of a science-fiction movie: robots
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