When my mom told me that she wanted a purse for Christmas last year, I didn’t think twice about it. I know you don’t know her, but my mother is a woman who, historically, loves a good purse. She would have one for every outfit, in every color, shape, and material, and for every purpose … Continue reading Purses in Petare: How Women’s Apparel Can Feed the Barrio
The well-known gender pay gap has been addressed time and time again. With 217 million search results on Google, the 0.83 cents to a man’s dollar continues to be the rallying cry for “equal pay for equal work.”1 While this has continued to garner academic attention, most recently by the 2023 Nobel Memorial Prize Winner … Continue reading Beyond the Paycheck: Understanding and Addressing the Gender Wealth Gap
The Bush School of Government and Public Service recently held its 9th annual Texas Symposium on Women, Peace, and Security. This year’s symposium focused on Emerging Insights on Women, Peace, and Security from the Asia-Pacific. Symposium Highlights: Organized by Bush School’s distinguished professor, Dr. Valerie Hudson, the symposium sheds light on global issues impacting the lives of women. … Continue reading Recapping the Women, Peace, and Security Symposium 2023
This summer, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the international football governing body, hosted the largest and most competitive Women’s World Cup tournament. The event expanded the number of participating teams from 24 to 32 and offered more opportunities for other nations to qualify. Additionally, the event collaborated with the UN and created captain … Continue reading Waking the World: Unveiling Challenges Faced by Women in Spanish Football
Widowhood is highly stigmatized in Sub-Saharan Africa. While mourning the death of their husbands, widows face discrimination, oppression, eviction, and severe abuse. When a woman’s husband passes away she is believed to be impure and is required to go through various cleansing rituals. These customs are so deeply entrenched in the culture that widows are … Continue reading Widow Cleansing Rituals
In Israel, both Jewish and Arab women generally enjoy full political rights in law and in practice. However, women in both groups remain somewhat underrepresented in leadership positions and can encounter additional obstacles in parties and communities—both Jews and Arabs—that are associated with religious or cultural conservatism. Women are treated equally in criminal and civil … Continue reading Differential gender practices between Jewish and Palestinian women in Israel
Gloria Steinem, the American journalist and activist, wrote in 1986 that if men got periods “they would brag about how long and how much” and that “sanitary supplies would be federally funded and free.” Well, men don’t get periods, sanitary supplies are not free for most menstruating people, and many menstruators face period poverty: a … Continue reading Period Poverty: What Is It, and What Should We Do About It?
Marching the streets of Mexico City on International Women's Day 2022 a woman said “We fight today so we don’t die tomorrow.” Living in constant fear is the life of a woman in Mexico. Walking to your job, getting into a relationship, waiting to get picked up from school, riding the bus, or any standard … Continue reading Women’s Insecurity in the Femicide Nation
In the year 2023, a person can rape their spouse and face no legal repercussions. The notion that anyone especially someone’s spouse could rape them and not be held legally responsible to most people would be unbelievable. The reality of it is that marital rape is still legal in many nations especially African nations which … Continue reading Link Between Marital Rape Laws and Security in Nigeria and South Africa
On March 17, 2023, the International Criminal Court (ICC) shocked the world by issuing arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova. Both Putin and Lvova-Belova were accused of war crimes for unlawfully deporting and transferring children from occupied Ukraine to Russia (McAllister and Krcmaric, 2023). While currently … Continue reading ICC Issues Warrant for Putin’s Arrest: What it Reveals About International Accountability for Wartime Sexual Violence
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