Equality in healthcare is an admirable goal, but it’s still not enough. Barriers to access and education create inequity in health outcomes. Removing those barriers is an essential step in achieving ...

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

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marianne Schnall is a journalist who amplifies women’s leadership. Top row, from left: Fatima Goss Graves, Ai-jen Poo, Stacey ...

The centennial of the day the 19th Amendment took effect is not the only historic occasion to be marked this August 26, which was designated as Women’s Equality Day by the U.S. Congress in 1973. It ...

International Women’s Day is an opportunity to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women all around the world and inspire future generations of women and girls to ...

“The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty,” Abraham Lincoln once remarked, “and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using ...

2021 started as a banner year for LGBTQ rights. In January, newly-inaugurated President Joe Biden signed a pair of executive orders to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender ...

Discriminatory laws and poor enforcement foster victim-blaming and harmful stereotypes, enabling impunity for perpetrators in League of Arab States countries. Various forms of sexual violence are not ...

A conversation with the historian Darrin McMahon about his new book Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea and the strange and contradicting development of the liberal version of egalitarianism. Ad ...

The Equality Act is 31 pages long, and devotes thousands of painstakingly drafted words to prohibiting "sex discrimination." In all those pages, however, the word "female" never appears. That's by ...

For years the religious right has trumpeted a lie: that its opposition to LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections has to do with, or is even required by, religion. It has even, on occasion, distorted the ...

Michael and Angela have just turned fifty-five. They know two people who have died in the past few years—one from cancer, another in a car accident. It occurs to them that they should make a plan for ...