equality

Women’s sports a likely coronavirus casualty

April 17, 2020 By Anne M. Peterson

Linked to the rising call for gender equity worldwide, women’s sports were enjoying unprecedented attention and support before the coronavirus pandemic.

Coronavirus magnifies silence around sexism and gender inequality

April 16, 2020 By Tim Libretti

Women’s inequality, during the coronavirus, hasn’t been talked about as inequality at all. It’s been talked about in terms of women’s vulnerability and experience of violence.

DeLauro: ‘Woman workers on frontlines’ of coronavirus battle still shorted in pay

April 1, 2020 By Mark Gruenberg

Low-paid workers are disproportionately women of color, and for them, they will need to work several more months to make what a white, non-Hispanic man earned last year.

Second World, Second Sex: How the socialist women of the East shaped feminism

September 5, 2019 By Tony Pecinovsky

The world’s workers in general—and women in particular—benefited from the “ideological tension” created by state socialism and its allies in the Third World.

World champion U.S. women’s soccer team demands women’s and LGBTQ equality

July 9, 2019 By David Crary

The U.S. women’s soccer team is embracing a front-line role in social justice causes even as it savors a fourth world championship.