Dr. Allison Cowett, medical director at Family Planning Associates, discusses how Illinois clinics are becoming overburdened ...

Thriving in college is hard. The US News and World Report reports that only 62% of American college students graduate from a university within six years’ time. The reasons range from academic to ...

This inaugural fellowship has been created to train women with disabilities as professional journalists so that they may write, research and report on the most crucial issues impacting the ...

The first time LaOneda Carpenter spoke about her 12-year-old daughter’s death by suicide was at a Mother’s Day luncheon at a church in May 2017. Immediately, afterward, an older lady approached her ...

Women with disabilities live at the intersection of two main biases: Gender bias can also color physicians’ attitudes toward patients. For example, a 2018 study found that doctors often view men with ...

According to the United States Department of Labor (DOL), 22.7% of People with Disabilities (PWDs) are employed, compared to 65.6% of non-disabled people. As a result, PWDs are 2X more likely than non ...

In her recent address before the United Nations Security Council, the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten delivered a searing account of the devastating and shocking ...

On his very first day in office, President Donald Trump fired Admiral Linda Fagan, the first woman in American history to lead a branch of the armed forces. She was evicted from her residence with ...

Author and International Relations expert Dr. Yvette Alt Miller, in her recent column in Aish, stated that around the time that Sheryl Sandberg’s documentary about the October 7 rapes and murders of ...

(WOMENSENEWS)—When I was 18 years old, I fell in love. I had met a man near the University of Oregon campus who seemed to love me as much as I loved him. Even though I was a promising high school ...

The most rapidly growing cause of disability and loss of human potential and productivity emanates from mental health conditions. Mental illness was the largest source of loss in GDP (Gross Domestic ...

In a special commentary, Martha Burk, head of an organization representing 6 million women, argues President Reagan injected into Republican politics a strain of virulent anti-woman policies that ...