Lori Sokol, PhD. is Executive Director and Editor–in-Chief of Women’s eNews, an award-winning, non-profit digital news service that provides coverage of the most crucial issues impacting women and ...

Women Wish to Stay to Testify Against Former Guards The women argue that they are entitled to a specific type of visa under the Violence Against Women Act of 2000, permitting them to remain in the ...

(WOMENSENEWS)—If there is a single through-line in my life and in my philanthropy, it is marginalization. It has been with me from my earliest memory, and it has defined the many causes to which I ...

Thriving in college is hard. The US News and World Report reports that only 62% of American college students graduate from a university within six years’ time. The reasons range from academic to ...

In her recent address before the United Nations Security Council, the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten delivered a searing account of the devastating and shocking ...

Credit: sean dreilinger on Flickr, under Creative Commons (WOMENSENEWS)– In a 2002 article, “Gender Equality: A Key to Our Future?,” Lena Sommestad, a women’s historian and then Swedish Social ...

New York City is a difficult city to navigate and reside in for many, but it can be even more challenging for people with disabilities. I moved from Las Vegas, Nevada to Manhattan in the fall of 2019 ...

Bocanos Flores in Puebla, Mexico. Credit: Amy Lieberman MEXICO CITY (WOMENSENEWS)–The second time Deborah Alvarez was deported from the United States in 2005, after she was detained for prostitution ...

The stereotypes of women of color as always being sexually available show how undervalued they are, says Jaclyn Friedman in her new book “What You Really Really Want.” In this excerpt, she explores ...

Credit: Informatique under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). DUBLIN (WOMENSENEWS)– The sit-down interview took place over two nights, behind the walls of the convent where they both live. On the ...

Women’s History Month has come and gone, and despite all the drama, we are still here and multitasking more than ever. However, imagine waking up one day to find all the women had simply vanished! No ...