gender-studies

Before Orange Is the New Black made her a star, Cox endured bullying, abuse, harassment and violence. She talks about the bad old days – and her fears they’re on their way back Two days before she spoke to me, Laverne Cox had been at the premiere of a new, animated Animal Farm, in which she voices Snowball. The film is wildly controversial, for its absolutely unOrwellian, childish tone, complete …

Shipra Sharma, Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad ABSTRACT The women-centric laws that have been formulated in India have been done so with the intention of protecting women from violence, abuse, and discrimination. Such laws have been a step in the right direction in terms of gender justice. However, in recent times, there have been concerns that have been raised with regard to the misuse of women-…

Vishakha Mishra, SOLJ&G, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, U.P) Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women. - Maya Angelou ABSTRACT Women are one of the vulnerable groups in society due to historical, economic, social and cultural differences. They are at a disadvantage due to discrimination faced in all sphere…

Remya R, Research Scholar, Government Law College, Thiruvananthapuram. ABSTRACT The domestic realm has traditionally been understood as a private space protected from legal scrutiny and defined largely by patriarchal rules. Women have historically faced prejudice in marriage with respect to physical autonomy, reproductive choice, property rights, maintenance, domestic labour, domicile and protect…

Dmitriy Popov fatally stabbed O’Shae Sibley in Brooklyn in 2023 and was found guilty of manslaughter as a hate crime A New York City man who was recently convicted of a hate crime in the 2023 stabbing death of vogue dancer O’Shae Sibley is facing a prison sentence of between eight and 25 years. Sentencing for Dmitriy Popov, who was 17 at the time of Sibley’s slaying, was tentatively scheduled for…

‘This is the one time of year people feel they can truly show who they are,’ says one festival attendee Tens of thousands of people have poured into central Seoul to celebrate the city’s annual queer culture festival, filling the streets with rainbow flags and drumming troupes in one of Asia’s largest Pride gatherings. “I only tell friends who I think can accept it,” said Lee Seo-hee, a universit…

Gen Z enters their career expecting more from leaders than past generations did. This article offers four doable ideas that will enable you to attract and retain these teammates.

Personal Perspective: Clinging rigidly to binary theories of gender and sexuality does young people a disservice.

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 11 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02513-5 Author Correction: Methodological considerations for evaluating policy impacts on transgender and non-binary youth suicidality

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02485-6 Legal reforms decriminalizing same-sex relations in Asia led to modest normative changes, reflected in reduced online moral judgement and improved offline perceptions of neighbourhood safety, particularly among younger populations.

Nature Human Behaviour, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41562-026-02424-5 Legal reforms in a number of Asian countries have expanded lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) rights, yet their effects on public attitudes remain unclear. Using large-scale social media and survey data, Jaidka and colleagues examine how decriminalization and marriage equality shape online di…

We began with a simple question: Does the AI publishing ecosystem reflect the diversity it hopes to create? The answer led us to uncover a persistent gender imbalance hidden in plain sight.

Even in blue states, nonreligious tech entrepreneurs and CEOs are increasingly asking for “traditional” and “conservative” women, matchmakers tell WIRED.

Responding to an incident in which she was verbally abused, the actor said that that ‘evil forces are rising everywhere’, as well as expressing support for MobLand co-star Tom Hardy Helen Mirren has commented on being called an “evil Zionist bitch” while being harassed in the street in London, saying she was “attacked by mistake by a man who was maybe a little over passionate or maybe mentally no…

The amendment would tighten existing restrictions in the Southern Baptist Convention, which already has a faith statement opposing women pastors.

There's a pattern in American philanthropy that I call institutional infidelity: the minimizing and quiet reassignment of a woman’s philanthropic identity to her husband.

Sabine Nkusi, who fled Kigali during the genocide, leads initiative aimed at challenging stigma of sexual violence As a 14-year-old, Sabine Nkusi witnessed the horrors of the genocide against the Tutsi in her home country of Rwanda. Fleeing Kigali with her parents, brother and sister, she saw women lying dead by the road, many who had been the victim of sexual abuse. She vowed to God that if she …

A new survey seems to correlate anger with being unhappy – but it can be an energising and frankly entertaining emotion too A while ago, to amuse myself, I ran a search through my text archive for the phrase “I can’t stand it”, which delivered pages and pages of returns. Some recent things I can’t stand, in no particular order: the phrase “clutching her pearls”; a very obviously made-up anecdote …

BackgroundMenarche is a key developmental milestone for adolescent girls, yet in many Muslim-majority rural settings it occurs within strong norms of modesty and silence. Although prior research has identified gaps in menstrual knowledge and hygiene, limited evidence explains how Islamic modesty norms and mother–daughter communication jointly influence menstrual readiness during the early transit…