PEPFAR’s anti-prostitution “loyalty oath” is hindering aid groups’ efforts to help sex workers.
women’s rights
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
To Stop Rape, Fix the Police Force First
In India, women are often as scared of law-enforcement officials as they are of potential attackers on the street.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
Purity Culture Is Rape Culture
The shocking assault in India reveals that rape isn’t about sex—it’s about controlling women’s lives.
Posted inSpecial Report
The New Case for Marriage
Marriage is undeniably a changed institution, because wedlock is no longer obligatory on the old patriarchal terms. For women this has been a hard-won, historic victory. Divorce became easier starting with the first wave of feminism in the early 1900s, and the second wave, beginning in the 1960s, obtained for women more kinds of work, […]
