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The Weight of a Magazine for Sex Workers
What a group of workers-rights activists learned from starting a publication to give people in the sex industry a voice
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Naomi/Flickr The Sexually Conservative Millennial
Young Americans may be more demographically diverse than older generations, but many embrace surprisingly traditional views on relationships.
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Rich Pedroncelli/AP Will Californians Vote On Executing Gays and Lesbians?
Unless a court intervenes, the state will have to allow an attorney to collect signatures for a ballot measure that would authorize mass murder.
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Murad Sezer/Reuters In Turkey, Not Even Posters of Women Are Safe From Violence
After a deadly sexual assault on a minibus, a hidden-camera campaign gains new meaning.
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Luke MacGregor/Reuters The Activism of Oversharing
Angelina Jolie, in publicly airing the details of a surgery that forced her into early menopause, is taking a stand on the ways in which women should think about their bodies.
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Kzenon/Shutterstock What Do Religious Women Think of the Contraceptive Mandate?
Faith leaders have spoken out against the Affordable Care Act's mandate that employers cover free birth control in their employee health plans—but many of their female followers feel differently.
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Jim Larrison/Flickr/The Atlantic What Gender Inequality Looks Like in Collegiate Sports
Despite some progress through Title IX and other policies, female coaches and players are still significantly marginalized and undervalued.
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Glynnis Jones / Shutterstock / The Atlantic Gay and Mennonite
They vote on everything. They’re committed to peace. Can a church that defines itself by harmony survive dissonance over homosexuality?
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Joshua Lott/Reuters The Economic Scars of Domestic Abuse
The financial damage done to those in violent relationships can last for years—another reason it's difficult for victims to just walk away.
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B Mathur/Reuters I Am Not India's Daughter
Reflections on a banned documentary about the gang rape in my hometown of Delhi
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The Atlantic The Sexism of Startup Land
Is the road to success more difficult for female entrepreneurs?
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A Strange Map of the World's Child-Marriage Laws
When it comes to statutes prohibiting minors from getting married, the U.S. is more like Latin America than Europe.
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HABRDA/Shutterstock The Politics of Sexuality
Ben Carson's simplistic approach to homosexuality reflects an impoverished understanding of human behavior.
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Fox/HBO/ABC Television Loves Female Presidents, as Long as They're Republican
Americans have yet to elect a woman as commander in chief, but the small screen has played with the idea for almost a decade.
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Alex Lee/Reuters Unplanned Births: Another Outcome of Economic Inequality?
Affluent women are likely to have access to more-reliable forms of birth control, and they're more than three times as likely to have an abortion in the case of an accidental pregnancy.
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Double-M/Flickr Christian, or Feminist?
A new book about purity culture shows the difficulty of reconciling women's liberation with evangelical faith.
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Patrick T. Fallon/Reuters Why More Americans Accept Gay Marriage Than Ever
Jo Becker offers perspective on surging acceptance—and continued obstacles—in the fight for marriage equality.
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grendelkhan/Flickr How Kink's Largest Social-Networking Site Fails Its Users
By protecting the identities of people with a history of abusive behavior, FetLife.com leaves members of the BDSM community vulnerable to harm.
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Brad Hammonds/Flickr Are Taxis Safer Than Uber?
Many major cities don't keep comprehensive data about assaults against passengers—and even FBI-led background checks have limitations.
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Gaganjit Singh/UN Women/The Atlantic Closing the TV-Guest Gender Gap
A host reflects on the many challenges of trying to make half of his interview subjects women.
