How Women Changed the World This Year
From Colombia to Iran, feminism is an increasingly unstoppable force.
How abortion restrictions compare, state-by-state
Access to abortion in the U.S. depends on where you live. Increasingly, the South and Midwest are becoming complete abortion deserts. Our interactive map highlights six major restrictions in all 50 states and Washington, D.C.
Related: How a network of college students is preparing for post-Roe campuses
Related: How a network of college students is preparing for post-Roe campuses
How a network of college students is preparing for post-Roe campuses
One drop-off at a time, college students are arming themselves with preventive emergency contraception — which could soon be one of the last legal chances to stop a pregnancy.
‘The smoke enters your body’: A toxic trash site in Kenya is making women sick
As rubbish piles up on a vast dumpsite, the women who sift through it for their livelihood are suffering reproductive health problems that scientists say have been overlooked.
Related: Air pollution’s impact on women’s health is not getting the attention it needs, scientists warn
Related: Air pollution’s impact on women’s health is not getting the attention it needs, scientists warn
Violent crime victims in New York struggle to access funds due to them
A state fund designed to help the targets of physical attacks only reaches a small fraction of the people who need it most.
‘We have to fight back.’ Afghan women are losing their hard-won right to work under the Taliban
Afghan women's participation in the workforce rose steadily in the 20 years after the Taliban were ousted from government. Since they returned to power, those gains have been rapidly eroding. Now activists fear a new edict mandating the burqa in public could destroy them altogether.
The draft abortion ruling that shook the states
While the Supreme Court justices before now contorted themselves to find common legal ground on this most controversial of issues, the leaked draft opinion that would overturn the landmark abortion decision in Roe V. Wade was anything but mealy-mouthed. But what should we make of all of this? Does this unofficial, unauthorized document even matter? Here are five ideas to keep in mind as we continue to make sense of what has happened and of what may lie ahead.
New York prepares to become an abortion safe haven
In the wake of a leaked decision by Justice Alito gutting abortion rights, New York state lawmakers have introduced measures to expand access for the expected influx of abortion seekers.
‘I can’t keep this baby’: Pregnant Ukrainian refugees struggle to get abortion care
Poland has become a place of refuge for millions of women fleeing war in Ukraine. It also has some of Europe’s most restrictive abortion laws, posing a major challenge to refugees with unwanted pregnancies. Some have survived rape, others simply cannot imagine taking on the responsibility of a child while their futures are so uncertain.
Analysis: Where democracy falters, so do reproductive rights
Reproductive rights don’t exist in a vacuum: They are inextricably linked to democratic institutions, with threats to one reinforcing threats to the other. As countries like Poland, Brazil, Hungary, and the United States face threats to their democracies, so do the women of those countries face threats to their reproductive rights.
DA won’t drop charges against Manhattan woman charged with murder who says she acted in self-defense
Tracy McCarter won a small concession from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Monday in a case alleging she murdered her estranged husband. But the DA’s office stopped short of dropping a murder charge for an act she says was in self-defense.
Do police help or hurt domestic violence survivors? New York City council members take a stand
Tiffany Cabán and Mercedes Narcisse plunge New York City’s legislature into a fierce debate dividing domestic violence advocates about the role of law enforcement in getting help for survivors.
The South’s abortion battle has a new front: telemedicine
A new bill making its way through the Georgia statehouse would criminalize access to abortion pills by telemedicine — a common, safe, easy way to end early pregnancies that the federal government first allowed last year.
Women victimized by Boko Haram forced to choose peace over justice
Boko Haram militants are surrendering to the Nigerian government as part of a rehabilitation program. But the women they once tortured are demanding justice too.
In rural India, stricken by pandemic, necessity of invention fills in for the state: Reporter’s Notebook
A short news clip about the mysterious deaths of two women in a home they shared with their family took reporter Puja Changoiwala on a journey through a COVID-ravaged landscape in rural India.
Analysis: India is building a women-only social safety net
Political parties across India have promised a host of new social programs exclusively for women. Is it politics or progress?
Trauma can be hard to talk about. It can also be hard to hear: Reporter’s Notebook
Jessica Washington shares how she developed relationships with sources while investigating how Native mothers experience the Minnesota foster care system.
‘Never just a wife or widow’: Reflecting on Coretta Scott King and the women of the civil rights movement
As the world honors the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., journalist Lottie Joiner, former editor of the NAACP’s The Crisis, reflects on the role of women’s leadership in the civil rights…
