Girls and Women

Latest

Gender
A girl plays with a deflated balloon as she walks through smog in Delhi, India November 7, 2016.

The Missing Girls of India: A National Shame

by Venkatraman Radhakrishnan

A call to reform the institutions and cultural practices that perpetuate gender biases against girls

Gender
Women dance requesting for a better access to treatment for Africans suffering from HIV/AIDS, at the start of the 22nd International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2018), the largest HIV/AIDS-focused meeting in the world, in Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 23, 2018.

Putting Women at the Center of HIV Prevention Research—and Beyond

by Zeda Rosenberg

While health-progress continues for many, women and girls continue to be left behind

Copy of an old papyrus seen in a souvenir shop in Cairo Egypt. Female genital mutilation is an archaic practice that most likely originated in Pharaonic Egypt. The image is of a papyrus GETTY/Izzet Keribar
Gender

Ending Female Genital Mutilation

by Mahnaz M. Harrison, Mark P. Lagon

Best practices are known and political will may finally be here to end this extreme form of discrimination against women