When Women's Day Is a Thing of the Past
Talking to the head of U.N. Women about what a true post-feminist world would look like.
INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | MARCH 8, 2011
Egypt's Pro-Women Election Turns Ugly
When Egypt's government announced its new parliamentary quota for women, it was hailed as a step for gender equality. The reality on the ground? Not so much.
BY SARAH A. TOPOL | NOVEMBER 27, 2010
Women in Control
While it's true that more than 75 percent of parliaments worldwide are more than three-quarters male, in recent years some high-powered female heads of state have bucked the trend. If Dilma Rousseff is elected as Brazil's first female president, she'll be joining a small, but elite, cohort.
BY SUZANNE MERKELSON, ANDREW SWIFT | OCTOBER 1, 2010
The Vote Comes to Afghanistan’s Peaceful Heartland
At the polls in Bamiyan, the anti-Taliban province that's seeing a resurgence of female participation.
BY E. BENJAMIN SKINNER | SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
What the Waters Washed Away
The rural, conservative refugees from Pakistan’s floods have not only lost their homes, but also their entire way of life.
BY RANIA ABOUZEID | SEPTEMBER 17, 2010
The Not-So-Radical Roots of Miss USA
Rima Fakih is no Hezbollah hottie -- she's the living embodiment of Lebanon's cultural complexity.
BY HANIN GHADDAR | MAY 21, 2010
Betrayed
They said we were there to save Afghanistan’s women. So how come we haven’t?
BY VALERIE M. HUDSON, PATRICIA LEIDL | MAY 10, 2010
Yemen's Child Bride Backlash
After a 13-year-old girl's death, the conservative Islamists are retrenching -- with some bizarre, yet somehow effective, arguments.
BY HALEY SWEETLAND EDWARDS | APRIL 30, 2010
More Nancy Pelosis, Please
Why the world needs more female lawmakers -- and why quota systems won't necessarily get us there.
BY ALEXANDRA STARR | MARCH 24, 2010
The FP Quiz
Are you a globalization junkie? Then test your knowledge of global trends, economics, and politics with 8 questions about how the world works.
MARCH/APRIL 2010
Mexico's Abortion War
The culture clashes aren't just in the United States anymore.
BY ALEXIS OKEOWO | DECEMBER 17, 2009
Sarkozy's Better Half
If the French president has a hope of getting things done at the G-20, it's because of his philosophic finance minister, Christine Lagarde.
BY ANNIE LOWREY | SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
Macho Men
Irma Erlingsdóttir, director of the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Iceland, thinks Reihan Salam's "The Death of Macho" overestimates the erosion of "male-archy" in Iceland.
SEPT. / OCT. 2009
Hillary in Africa
Three weeks after U.S. President Barack Obama visited Africa, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton returned to the region for a sweeping, 11-day, seven-country tour. What both dignitaries shared, besides rock star-worthy receptions, was a rhetoric urging political reform, extolling good governance, and affirming Africa's "promise."
BY ADITI NANGIA | AUGUST 13, 2009
The Death of Macho
Manly men have been running the world forever. But the Great Recession is changing all that, and it will alter the course of history.
BY REIHAN SALAM | JULY/AUG 2009
Investing in Women
FEBRUARY 19, 2008
What America Must Do: A Woman's Worth
Without spending a dime, the next president can single-handedly lift half of the world.
BY KAVITA RAMDAS | DECEMBER 18, 2007
The Second Sex
The world's most important body has yet to recognize the world's most important struggle: the fight for women's rights.
BY STEPHEN LEWIS | MARCH 31, 2007
Coding a Revolution
BY DARIA VAISMAN | FEBRUARY 14, 2007
The Kingdoms Clock
If Saudi Arabia's new king is to stem the Islamist extremism that continues to inspire violence inside and outside his kingdom, he must quickly push reforms that will outlast his inevitably short reign. It's a race against the clock. At 82 years old, King Abdullah's time is already running out.
BY RACHEL BRONSON, ISOBEL COLEMAN | AUGUST 8, 2006
Iranian Women Please Stand Up
BY HALEH ESFANDIARI | NOVEMBER 9, 2005
The Power Behind Peronism
BY DAVID SAX | SEPTEMBER 1, 2004
Founding Mothers?
Many Iraqi women are defying cultural conservatives and danger outside their doors to participate in Iraq's incipient government and civil society. Here are some who are taking the risk.
JULY 1, 2004
Iraq's Excluded Women
Building democracy in Iraq will prove impossible without immediate leadership from the country's forsaken majority: its women. But while the Bush administration trumpets women's rights in the Middle East, it neglects to back words with action. The failure to empower women would condemn Iraq to the fate of its Arab neighbors -- autocracy, economic stagnation, and social malaise.
BY SWANEE HUNT, CRISTINA POSA | JULY 1, 2004
Headscarf Heresy
For one Muslim woman, the headscarf is a matter of choice and dignity.
BY MERVE KAVAKCI | MAY 1, 2004
How much would a no-fly zone over Syria cost?
BY KEVIN BARON
Cuba's greatest export isn't cigars -- it's doctors
BY ELIAS GROLL
No, the Spanish can't be more German -- and other myths of the euro crisis
BY MICHAEL PETTIS
Dennis Rodman calls on Kim Jong Un to do him 'a solid' and release American detainee
BY URI FRIEDMAN
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Is there a relationship between more women in government and happier mothers?
BY ELIZABETH F. RALPH
Odierno: Sequestration leaves military unprepared for Syria
BY KEVIN BARON
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