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Now that COVID-19 protections have been removed, social barriers for disabled and high-risk people have grown.
What does all of this mean for the Autism Spectrum and Intellectually and Developmentally Disabled communities?
Peru Campaign Quiet on Reproductive Issues By Jen Ross Employment May 22, 2006 In Peru, which has one of the highest illegal abortion rates in Latin America, the sole female presidential candidate is ...
Kelly St. John, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, created a documentary that told the story of her rape, and that of another 14-year-old who was assaulted by the same man a year earlier. She ...
Professional women in New York who broke ground in the workplace are helping each other blaze retirement paths. In late midlife, they are meeting in peer groups to find new forms of activity and ...
Staring at the computer screen, I could barely make out the letters. But I will never forget what I heard. "These are likely the slave owners of your second great grandfather." The very nice ...
Just Consider Tina Turner Meanwhile, the days of being shocked at an older woman with a younger man are over. Just think of the roster of high-profile women involved with younger men. Georgia O’Keefe, ...
As the government wipes important sexual health information from official websites and targets research funding simply for the presence of words like “women” and “sex,” it’s more important than ever ...
Mexico is one of the world's most dangerous places to be transgender. But as lawmakers try to change that, transgender women who are deported confront a social backlash that makes their homeland more ...
Credit: Dan Goorevitch on Flickr, under Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0). (WOMENSENEWS)–Are you “too beautiful” to be in the workplace? Can your boss fire you if he thinks your appearance is a ...
The 'husband stitch' is too often proposed by the male doctor as a ‘favor’ to the husband or the couple.