A bill for voluntary conscription of women into the national guard which is to be tabled in parliament after its approval by ministers, was criticised by women’s groups on Thursday. The proposed bill, ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Thirty years after world leaders adopted a historic blueprint to achieve gender equality, a new United Nations report says women’s and girls’ rights are under attack and gender ...

New Jersey is the eighth-worst state for women's equality in the United States in 2025, according to a recently published study by WalletHub. "Women's rights in the U.S. have made leaps and bounds ...

Legal equality for women could take centuries as the fight for gender equality is becoming an uphill struggle against widespread discrimination and gross human rights abuses, the United Nations chief ...

MUNCIE, IN —The Coalition of Women’s Organizations will host its 33rd annual Women’s Equality Day program at 5 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 26, in the Muncie City Hall auditorium. This year’s program will ...

We can recognize how far we’ve come since August 26, 1920, when the 19th Amendment giving women the constitutional right to vote became law, but we must also acknowledge how far we still have to go to ...

During a recent visit from my grandson, we watched the seven-part mini-series, “John Adams,” released in 2008. This excellent portrayal of the life of the second President of the United States was ...

Women’s Equality Day, celebrated every year, officially on Aug. 26, marks the granting of women’s right to vote, enshrined in the U.S. Constitution by the 19th Amendment in 1920. The Amendment ...

Women remain significantly underrepresented in Europe’s hydropower sector, particularly in technical and leadership roles.

Trying to answer this question for myself, I came across a list of what UN Women has identified as the “Top Ten Gender Equality Accelerators.” UN Women is the entity created in 2010 by the United ...

Monday is Women’s Equality Day, celebrating the anniversary of the 19th amendment to the constitution, passed in 1920, which gave women the right to vote. It forbids states and the federal government ...

Women athletes have come a long way since the 1900 Paris Olympics, where they were first allowed to compete on the world’s greatest sport stage. They accounted for only 2.2% of all competitors then.