Self-determination has been consistently recognized as an important factor in successful transition from school to adulthood.

Dr. Allison Cowett, medical director at Family Planning Associates, discusses how Illinois clinics are becoming overburdened ...

As the Taliban flees Kabul, an Afghan woman at a Cambridge peace conference provides a series of guidelines for those involved in the peace process, which she insists should include women. She adds: ...

Commander Esther, wearing an embroidered blouse and a black ski-mask, declared the Zapatista rebels would lay down their arms if the government gave more autonomy to her region and advanced the rights ...

Women’s eNews has learned that the “Hunting for Bambi” adult paintball business, was most likely a hoax staged to promote sales of “Hunting for Bambi” videos. After a weeklong investigation, Las Vegas ...

(WOMENSENEWS)–The Miss America Pageant has always revealed the nation’s attitude toward women. Originally a bathing suit contest on the beach, it began in 1921 as an attempt by Atlantic City ...

(WOMENSENEWS)—When I was 18 years old, I fell in love. I had met a man near the University of Oregon campus who seemed to love me as much as I loved him. Even though I was a promising high school ...

Thriving in college is hard. The US News and World Report reports that only 62% of American college students graduate from a university within six years’ time. The reasons range from academic to ...

The work of Gunnar and Alva Myrdal, a husband and wife team, in the 1930s shaped Sweden’s progressive population policies, says Steven Philip Kramer in this excerpt from “The Other Population Crisis.” ...

In her recent address before the United Nations Security Council, the Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Pramila Patten delivered a searing account of the devastating and shocking ...

Last week, while most Americans were commemorating the Memorial Day Weekend, honoring military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces, a mother of three girls would become ...