gender equity

Title IX and Gender Equity: All Talk, No Touchdown?

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by Nikki Serapio

May 18, 2011 - 1:44pm (Print)

Civil rights advocates would do well to ask the Obama administration to step up and impose some actual accountability. By all accounts, too many universities are still violating the letter and spirit of Title IX.

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UPDATED: Former Chilean President Bachelet to Head New UN Women Agency

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by Beth Saunders, RH Reality Check

September 14, 2010 - 11:15am (Print)

Four UN agencies that focus on women will be merging into a new entity, called UN Women, and it will be led by the former president of Chile, Michelle Bachelet.

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Gary and His Guys: Anti-Choice Masculinity Passion Play

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by Brett Copeland

June 28, 2010 - 6:00am (Print)

As men and women move closer to equality, the traditional gender-inequality holdouts are positioning themselves as the ones who will “make men, men again.”

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Preventive Medicine in Sierra Leone? Not for Women

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by Julia Smith

June 3, 2010 - 6:00am (Print)

In Sierra Leone, deeply ingrained discrimination against women and the lack of effective health care for women contribute to one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world.

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Media: It's a Woman's Nation While Dad's on His Knees

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by Wendy Norris, RH Reality Check

October 23, 2009 - 6:00am (Print)

Instead of a thoughtful series on very real gender inequities in wages, unfair gender-rating of health insurance and antiquated employment policies to truly elevate the public debate, it now appears Cosmopolitan is advising the Shriver Team.
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