Hollywood Is Finally Getting A Female Ensemble Superhero Film.

Between Marvel and DC Comics, 15 superhero films have been released over the last eight years, and only now are females being featured in the lead role. A Patty Jenkins-hel...

Mexico's President Calls For Nationwide Legalization Of Same-Sex Marriage

Mexico’s president, Enrique Peña Nieto, has called for the nationwide legalization of same-sex marriage, announcing that he had signed initiatives proposing th...

Access To Digital Technology Accelerates Global Gender Equality

In every industry, digital technologies are transforming the status quo. Now we have evidence that they are also bringing us closer to workplace equality. Digital fluency i...

Taking Care Of Business.

One day in September, in a small town north of Kampala in Uganda, a young woman, pregnant with twins and still weeks away from full term, arrived at the Maria Maternity War...

Land Rights For Women On Paper And In Practice.

Over the past few decades there has been growing awareness of the need to strengthen land rights for women and men across the African continent. As a result, governments ha...

Beano For Bovines: Here's How Researchers Are Cutting Methane Emissions From Cows

Just as people plagued by flatulence have turned to diets and supplements for relief, scientists are seeking a cure for belching — and sometimes farting — cows....

Gaza Rolls Out The Red Carpet For Film Festival

Gaza Strip — “Turn them off? Off?” asked an employee of the RashadShawa Cultural Center in Gaza City repeatedly as he talked on his cellphone. Once he rec...

Has Celebrity Feminism Failed?

It has become fashionable to identify as a feminist in Hollywood, but a social and political force needs substance, not just award-ceremony speeches, to refocus the spotlig...

$1m Prize For Heroic Burundi Woman Who Saved 30,000 Children From War

(CNN)During the brutal Burundi civil war which claimed 300,000 lives, Marguerite Barankitse risked her own to rescue around 30,000 children from persecution.

At the...