Three decades after the Beijing Platform for Action, the groundbreaking UN declaration that affirmed that women’s rights are human rights, the global movement for gender equality and women’s ...

Gender equality was supposed to reduce gender stratification and segregation in academic and professional pursuits. Instead, ...

The Hindi film industry has long faced criticism for its gender bias, particularly when it comes to age norms and working conditions for women. Actor Shefali Shah recently spoke about these ongoing ...

NORMAN, Okla. -- An instructor at the University of Oklahoma has been placed on leave after a student complained that she received a failing grade on a paper that cited the Bible to assert that the ...

A University of Oklahoma student received a zero on a psychology essay after using her religious beliefs to discuss gender norms. The graduate student instructor said the grade was for not properly ...

The essay, written for a psychology class by a University of Oklahoma student, called the idea of multiple genders “demonic.” The instructor said it did not answer the assignment. By Mark Arsenault A ...

My relationship with bras was misaligned from the start. Victoria’s Secret didn’t carry my bra size and rather than letting me know this pertinent information, they crammed me into a bra they stocked.

Society has long been plagued by prescriptive gender roles, trying to dictate how entire groups of people are meant to act and behave. As someone who has never fit into their prescribed role, this ...

Refugee and migrant men are bringing the cultural, gender and sexual norms from their countries of origin into their idea of sexual and reproductive health care in their countries of resettlement, ...

DHARAMSHALA, India (RNS) — When the nonsectarian Dolma Ling Nunnery transitioned to female leadership earlier this year, for the first time in its three-decade history, it marked a radical shift in ...

Outdated gender norms are like those old clothes in your closet that you hang onto just because they've been there forever. You know they don't fit anymore, and it's time to make some space for new, ...

ATHENS, Ga. — A new study from the University of Georgia focused on how gender norms can significantly hinder female bosses in the workplace, impacting their ability to lead effectively. According to ...