As if Alabama’s recent legislation wasn’t enough to bring attention to the plight of women in Alabama this statistic went unnoticed:
Alabama leads the nation when it comes to infant mortality.
The most recent data on infant mortality available from the CDC looks at the year of 2016. The...
A Utah state judge has declared a 74-year-old woman and her long-term lesbian partner legally married, three months after her wife died.
Judge Patrick Corum declared Bonnie Foerster legally married to Beverly Grossaint, who died in May in Salt Lake City at age 82.
Same-sex marriage became...
The pay disparity between men and women has persisted for decades. Varying studies have reflected that women make somewhere around eighty cents for every dollar earned by a man. An alarming new report by The Institute for Women’s Policy Research, however, shows a much more substantial disparity. As reported by Vox:
India's top court has abolished a colonial-era law criminalizing extramarital sex, in a landmark ruling campaigners have hailed as a victory for women's rights.
Under the 158-year-old adultery law, known as Section 497, a man could be imprisoned for up to five years for engaging in sexual relations with a...