Women

The Revolution in Tunisia Stalls

Even before last week's riots at the U.S. Embassy in Tunis, the progress of Tunisia's revolution was beginning to look rocky. Here's why.

BY FADIL ALIRIZA | SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Nobody Told Asia About The End of Men

Mara Hvistendahl takes on Hanna Rosin.

BY MARA HVISTENDAHL | SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Smokeless Stoves, Girl-Friendly Schools, and the Bloc That Wasn’t

Academic economists usually air their new ideas first in working papers. Here, before the work gets dusty, a quick look at transition policy research in progress.

BY PETER PASSELL | AUGUST 3, 2012

Arab League

A unique look at the Middle East's aspiring women Olympians.

PHOTOS BY BRIGITTE LACOMBE | JULY 19, 2012

Two Steps Forward…

Do Saudi Arabia's two Olympic female athletes -- the kingdom's first ever -- represent changing times in the Land of the Two Holy Mosques, or will the conservative religious backlash win out?

BY EMAN AL NAFJAN | JULY 19, 2012

Woman Up

Why Hillary Clinton needs to stand up for the women of Egypt.

BY ELISA MASSIMINO | JULY 13, 2012

The Real Housewives of the Syrian Revolution

Behind the lines of the war against Bashar al-Assad.

BY SUHA MAAYEH | JULY 11, 2012

Talking a Great Game

So far, Washington's pivot to Asia has included a lot of work on security and trade. Democracy, not so much.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JULY 11, 2012

The Women of Tahrir Square Fight Back

The revolution in Egypt isn’t over -- at least as long as female revolutionaries have anything to say about it.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JULY 5, 2012

The Missing 50 Percent

There’s no real democracy without full representation for women.

BY SUSAN A. MARKHAM | JUNE 29, 2012

Tale of the Dragon Lady

The long, sordid history behind China's blame-the-woman syndrome.

BY PAUL FRENCH | JUNE 26, 2012

Why America Can't Have It All

Anne-Marie Slaughter is on to something bigger than she realizes.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | JUNE 25, 2012

Covering Up

If the kingdom's top woman can't keep her story straight about whether she wears the veil, what are other Saudi women supposed to do?

BY AHMED AL OMRAN | JUNE 25, 2012

Who Cares How Many Women Are in Parliament?

There are plenty of good yardsticks for the state of women’s rights around the world. Parliamentary representation isn’t one of them.

BY JOSHUA FOUST, MELINDA HARING | JUNE 25, 2012

Debating Hillary

Has Hillary Clinton -- the subject of a major new profile in Foreign Policy -- been a good secretary of state? Seven top foreign-policy watchers assess her legacy.

JUNE 20, 2012

Her Work Isn’t Done

This week the world is celebrating Aung San Suu Kyi’s achievements as a pro-democracy activist. Now the question is: Can she finish the job?

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JUNE 20, 2012

Introducing the FPwomerati

Why didn't Foreign Policy include more women in its Twitterati list? Here's a list of 100 female tweeters around the world that everyone should follow.

BY @JILLIANCYORK, @KATRINSKAYA, @LISANG | JUNE 20, 2012

Head of State

Hillary Clinton, the blind dissident, and the art of diplomacy in the Twitter era.

BY SUSAN B. GLASSER | JULY/AUGUST 2012

Visualizing the War on Women Debate

A look at how the most popular cover story in Foreign Policy's history ricocheted across Twitter.

JULY/AUGUST 2012

Let's Talk About Sex

Four takes on Mona Eltahawy's cover piece on misogyny in the Middle East and Foreign Policy's inaugural Sex Issue.

JULY/AUGUST 2012

Egypt's Revolutionary Soul-Searching

Cairo's revolutionaries take to the streets during a chaotic weekend.

JUNE 4, 2012

Too Hot for Tehran

The ayatollahs are going after a new generation of satirists. But that hasn't stopped Iran's best cartoonists-in-exile from exposing the country's deepest taboos.  

JUNE 1, 2012

The Brothel Next Door

Turkey is cracking down on the sex trade. What's next?

BY ANNA LOUIE SUSSMAN | MAY 14, 2012

China's iPad Generation

Meet the children left behind when mommy and daddy go to the factory.

BY DEBORAH JIAN LEE, SUSHMA SUBRAMANIAN | MAY 3, 2012

Where Democracy Is America’s Second Choice

For Washington, democracy promotion in Yemen continues to take a back seat to the fight against Al-Qaeda.

BY FRANCISCO MARTIN-RAYO | MAY 2, 2012

China's Left Behind Children

Breakneck growth has made China an economic miracle. But will the destruction of families prove to be too high a cost?

BY DEBORAH JIAN LEE, SUSHMA SUBRAMANIAN | MAY 1, 2012

Tobacco's War on Women

The global tobacco industry is targeting women in emerging markets. Can public policy rise to the challenge?

BY BRAD EDMONDSON | MAY 1, 2012

Debating the War on Women

In the May/June issue of Foreign Policy, Mona Eltahawy argues that the real war on women is in the Middle East. FP asked six smart observers to weigh in on Eltahawy's claim that many of the men of the Arab world hate women -- and the controversial cover image that accompanied it.

APRIL 24, 2012

What Sex Means for World Peace

The evidence is clear: The best predictor of a state's stability is how its women are treated.

BY VALERIE M. HUDSON | APRIL 24, 2012

Doing Right by the World's Women

A conversation with the first female head of the U.N. Development Program on the most pressing issues for women in the developing world.

BY MARGARET SLATTERY | APRIL 23, 2012