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Gender and Sexuality

Visibility for women of color is the crucial first step toward equality

Without visibility, the unique struggles of women of color are absorbed by the larger groups to which they belong.

Gender and Sexuality

Using technology to improve women’s safety in Pakistan’s urban transit systems

Sexual harassment in public spaces can restrict women's mobility and economic opportunity.

Gender and Sexuality

In South Asian slums, women face the consequences of climate change

A new study shows that stressors brought by climate change may lead to increased domestic abuse and sleep deprivation among impoverished women.

Gender and Sexuality

A tale of two cities: Why there is no “one solution” to combating spousal abuse

Southeast Asia has high rates of domestic violence, but those designing interventions should not treat this region as a monolith.

Gender and Sexuality

Discrimination is limiting LGBTQ people’s access to rental housing

Housing discrimination faced by transgender people and same-sex couples can affect where they live and the resources available to them.

Gender and Sexuality

We need good data on LGBT Americans to craft inclusive policy

The Census Bureau announced it would include questions about sexual orientation and gender identity in the 2020 Census—then did an abrupt about-face.

Gender and Sexuality

Saying her name: Confronting police violence against black women and girls

The lack of national attention on black women’s deaths isn’t because only men experience racial disparities in policing.

Gender and Sexuality

It’s about more than just bathrooms

Boycotting travel to North Carolina because of House Bill 2 could also have consequences that could harm some of the groups that protestors are concerned about.

Gender and Sexuality

LGBTQ people are more likely to be victims of a hate crime than any other group

And fewer than half of all LGBTQ Americans live in states that protect them from discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity. To combat homophobia, we must not allow it in our laws.

Gender and Sexuality

If we elect a “girl” president, would we pay her the same as the “boy” president?

“This is one of the jobs where they have to pay you the same. But there are so many examples where that doesn't happen,” Hillary Clinton answered recently to a young girl in Las Vegas.