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Why We Need Gender and Women’s Studies Conferences and Coalition Work Now More Than Ever

There’s a palpable buzz in the air when you walk into a gender and women’s studies conference: a mixture of excitement, apprehension, and the relief of finally feeling able to brea...

Educating Women: A History of Access, Exclusion and Backlash

The war against “radical gender ideology” has been staggering. The ascent of President Trump brought calls for the elimination of women’s and LGBTQ centers, rollbacks on Title IX p...

On the Insufficiency of Current Gender Equality Policies in Academia and the Necessity of a Cultural Shift

Despite the proliferation of measures designed to promote gender equality in academia, structural inequalities persist—particularly in senior positions of responsibility, such as p...

MAGA’s Campaign Against Universities, Women’s Studies and Liberal Arts

As a professor at Smith College and chair of the Program for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, I have closely followed the Trump administration’s attacks on higher educatio...

When it comes to academic authorship, are women at a disadvantage?

Mary M Hausfeld of the University of Limerick explores how the process by which researchers receive credit for their work can be more complicated for women. Read more: When it com...

Feminism is subversive, destructive and unfair – so why do we bother?

WOMEN have reached the highest levels in politics, commerce and the professions. Yet according to Robert Oulds in his new book The Biorealist Manifesto, feminisation of the economy...

The Feminine as Structural Problem 

Twelve years ago, I committed to a life in philosophy—knowing it meant poverty and prolonged adolescence. Years of it. Maybe forever, given the job market’s generosity toward philo...

How Feminism Created An Insufferable Class Of Supposedly ‘Infallible Females’

The feminists have overplayed their hand. Men and women are finally rejecting their tyrannical, entitled, and condescending mien.

I Want to Be Obsolete. Instead, I’m Afraid to Teach.

I want to be obsolete. I want to walk into a classroom full of students excited to learn feminist histories and begin by marveling at how far we’ve come—how unthinkable it now feel...

What Would Sociologists Say About Ladies First? I Think I Know.

I watched Ladies First yesterday and spent the next few hours and half a day more doing what any normal person would do after a good movie. I started mentally summoning dead and li...

Why Women Need Other Women at Work

Why Women Need Other Women at Work Study finds that women who attended virtual career training did better when their classes didn’t include men...

From Suffrage To #MeToo: The Waves, Theories, And Thinkers That Shaped

Feminism is not a single, monolithic ideology but a rich and evolving field of thought that has developed across different historical moments, intellectual traditions, and social s...

How ICE Became the Enforcement Arm of the Patriarchy

Speaking in early February, while the nation was still reeling from the killings of Minneapolis residents Renee Good and Alex Pretti by federal agents, Jackson Katz, a leading voic...

Meet the 'femosphere': Angry young women who love to hate men

"Family Guy" does a spoof of "Return of the Jedi" that always makes me laugh. The characters travel the universe to meet with Rebel Alliance leader Mon Mothma, who they are surpris...

The Silenced Philosophers: The Systemic Erasure Of Women From Philosophy

This exclusion was inherent in the way society was structured. The post The Silenced Philosophers: The Systemic Erasure Of Women From Philosophy appeared first on Feminism in Indi...

Welcome to the ‘Bro-ocracy’: The Harsh Reality Awaiting Women After Graduation

Every year, new waves of young female graduates enter the workforce, believing the playing field is finally level. They’re about to learn it isn’t. According to internationally rec...

Inside the Trump Administration’s Attack on Smith College and Title IX

Seeing Ourselves Through Others: A Feminized and Uncultivated Form of Self-Consciousness?

A major achievement of feminist, antiracist, and other critical philosophies has been to disclose that seemingly neutral philosophical concepts are in fact (at least in part) recon...

A Silent Revolution- What Feminism In India Look Like?

                            A Silent Revolution - What feminism in India look like?When we hear the word “feminism” in the context of India, the Western image often comes to mind f...

After 50 years, women's ordination advocates brainstorm paths to transform institutions

The brainchild of WOC Executive Director Kate McElwee, the "Not if, But How — Reforming Institutions" panel gathered two sociologists and a political scientist to explore concrete...

Do We Seriously Need Feminism Anymore?

If someone insults men as a gender, a woman will ALWAYS defend men.If I now insult women as a gender, how many men will defend women?The difference in number makes me want to crawl...

I’ve Covered Women in the Workplace for 15 Years. Something Alarming Is Happening.

As women are erased from the narrative, injustices against them go unnoticed.

Women’s Education Is a Vaccine Against Misogyny: Understanding Access to Justice for Afghan Women

In the wake of the ban on girls and women’s education in places like Afghanistan, I ask: What is it about a girl with a book that so frightens a man with a gun? It is because women...

Womena Platform Founder Elissa Freiha Wants The World To See Feminism Through The Eyes Of Arab Women

When we hear or read narratives about feminism in mainstream media, it is typically through a white and Western lens. This is problematic on a global scale, as it stops feminists a...