gender-studies

Why do successful women drop their guard in luxury spaces? Learn how manipulators use expensive environments to bypass boundaries, and how to protect your peace of mind.

Women over 50 have more competition for male partners than younger women. The way to overcome this is to focus on ways of meeting men that prioritise compatibility.

A recent study links complementarianism—the conservative Christian belief in strict gender roles—to strong support for national population growth and severe restrictions on birth control and abortion.

Claims of discrimination at UCLA and Yale show how laws meant to foster inclusion are being used for the opposite The Department of Justice’s civil rights division was once known as the crown jewel of the agency, but under Trump it has become just another tool of this administration’s politicized and racialized attacks targeting Black, Latino and other people of color. The latest examples are the…

Republican states rebrand June as ‘nuclear family month’ or ‘fidelity month’ in latest attack on LGBTQ+ communities June is widely marked as gay Pride month – when LGBTQ+ communities march to protest discrimination and celebrate their identities in the month that the modern US gay liberation movement was born out of the 1969 uprising at New York’s Stonewall Inn – although not so much in certain R…

For a person ‘accustomed to things going his way’, president’s defeats in trials against the author are a direct hit to his ego Donald Trump had a tantrum. Trump was seated at the defense table in Manhattan federal court on 17 January 2024 when E Jean Carroll – who has said that he sexually assaulted her at a swank New York City department store some three decades prior – confronted him for the f…

Women coaches routinely overlooked, undermined and denied opportunities despite qualifications, say experts Women are being shut out of careers in sport by entrenched sexism, discrimination and workplace bullying, MPs have been told. Female coaches are routinely overlooked, undermined and denied opportunities despite their qualifications, experts told a parliamentary select committee on Thursday.…

IntroductionScholars call for more studies to better understand how women in masculine and male-dominated (MM) STEM professions construct professional identities, while navigating gendered tensions. Yet, studies on professional identity development (PID) processes in undergraduate architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) women are sparse and mostly adopt structuralist perspectives and cr…

The killing this month of a 14-year-old girl in central Argentina has sparked outrage and growing demands for government action against gender-based violence.

The EU must enact laws to stop gender apartheid and end impunity – not invite the perpetrators to Brussels. For Afghan women and girls it is a matter of survival The Taliban in Afghanistan recently arrested three of my family members, kept them in captivity, tortured one, and confiscated my house. It was to silence me. I was about to write to European diplomats to seek support for the release of …

Repository Citation Madison Hausmann, The "Open" Door: A Comparative Analysis of Gender Bias in Arbitration Within the Spanish and United States Women's National Soccer Teams, 36 Marq. Sports L. Rev. 349 (2026) Available at: https://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/sportslaw/vol36/iss2/4

Background: The US labor force and economic dependency ratios are projected to change significantly through 2060, driven by demographic shifts and persistent inequalities across race, ethnicity, and gender. The United States has lower participation rates than other industrialized countries and large participation gaps between population groups. Methods: We use a dynamic microsimulation model, inc…

Nature, Published online: 02 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01495-8 Women’s participation in science has risen sharply, but a Nature Index analysis finds that gender gaps in first and last authorship — markers of key scientific achievements — have barely shifted over the past decade.

In this research letter, we examine whether gender and racial bias affect interruption rates at one of the most visible events in American politics: US Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Using original data from 1939 to 2022, we find that male and white participants are more likely to interrupt women and person of color speakers, respectively, relative to male and white speakers. This finding h…

The Programme Analyst, Ending Violence Against Women (EVAW) position under the Junior Professional Officer (JPO) programme with UN Women represents one of the most impactful early-career international development opportunities available in 2026. Based in Dakar, Senegal, this role is designed for young professionals who are committed to advancing gender equality, eliminating violence against women…

Kishan Kumar Das, LL.M, Madhusudan Law University Deepika Palatasingh, LL.M, Madhusudan Law University ABSTRACT The Constitution of India was envisioned not merely as a treatise of governance, but as an emancipatory manifesto designed to dismantle deeply entrenched social hierarchies. However, traditional Indian jurisprudence has frequently defaulted to a paradigm of formal equality, often inadve…

Prachi Jaiswal, National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) ABSTRACT This paper examines the precarious condition of workers in India’s unorganised sector, which constitutes more than 92% of the country’s workforce yet remains largely excluded from labour law protections and social security benefits. It highlights the structural vulnerabilities faced by unorganised workers, particularly wome…

Since April 2023, Sudan’s women and girls have been subjected to systematic rape and sexual torture. Specialised support and justice for them is key to the country’s recovery and future In a village in South Darfur, I met a young girl about my daughter’s age – six or seven years old – who touched my hand and said: “I was taken by the Janjaweed.” This was more than 20 years ago, during the first D…

Robert Garcia became the lead contender in Tuesday’s primaries for congressional district 42 after redistricting The conservative California community of Huntington Beach, known for banning the Pride flag from city property and fighting the state over pandemic and housing policy, could soon be represented by a gay, Democratic congressman. Robert Garcia, an incumbent two-term Democratic LGBTQ+ con…