273 articles
Toxic masculinity
Toxic masculinity, coined in the 1980s mythopoetic men's movement and later adopted by feminists, describes harmful masculine traits such as domination, misogyny, and violence; its definition, measurement, and usefulness remain academically contested.
Tradwife
Tradwife (traditional wife): women promoting traditional homemaker roles and submission to husbands via TikTok, Instagram, YouTube; anti-feminist ideology, 2020 popularization, monetized influencer content, criticized as far-right adjacent.
Treatment of women by the Taliban
Treatment of women by the Taliban: systematic restrictions on Afghan women and girls under Taliban rule 1996–2001 and since the August 2021 takeover, covering education, work, dress, movement, health care, and gender persecution findings.
UN Women
UN Women (United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women), a UN agency created 2 July 2010 by merging four gender entities; operational 1 January 2011; first head Michelle Bachelet, current executive director Sima Bahous.
Val Plumwood
Val Plumwood (1939–2008), Australian ecofeminist philosopher, also published as Val Routley; critiqued human/nature dualism and rationalism in Feminism and the Mastery of Nature and Environmental Culture; survived a 1985 Kakadu crocodile attack.
Valerie Solanas
Valerie Solanas (1936-1988), American writer, author of the self-published SCUM Manifesto (1967) and founder of the one-member Society for Cutting Up Men; shot and critically wounded Andy Warhol on June 3, 1968.
Vilma Espín
Vilma Espín Guillois (1930–2007), Cuban revolutionary and chemical engineer, Frank País's lieutenant in the July 26 Movement underground, founder and lifelong president of the Federation of Cuban Women, and Raúl Castro's wife.
Warren Farrell
Warren Farrell, also known as Warren Thomas Farrell, is an American author on gender issues who moved from 1970s men's liberation to become the men's rights movement's intellectual father.
Weinstein effect
Weinstein effect: wave of sexual misconduct accusations, dismissals, and legal action following the October 2017 Harvey Weinstein exposés and viral #MeToo movement, distinct from Tarana Burke's earlier 2006 Me Too campaign.
What Is a Woman?
What Is a Woman? is a 2022 Daily Wire documentary directed by Justin Folk, hosted by Matt Walsh, asking interviewees to define "woman"; released June 2022, it reached 170 million Twitter views in 2023 after Musk lifted restrictions.
Woman
Woman: adult human female; also used for gender identity. Covers the sex/gender distinction, etymology, women's health research gaps, labor force participation (40.8% of formal labor market), and global gender-equality measures.
Womanism
Womanism: feminist framework centering women of color, especially Black women, coined by Alice Walker in late-1970s fiction and her 1983 In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens; distinct from mainstream feminism and Black feminism, later expanded into womanist theology and Africana womanism.
Women Against State Pension Inequality
WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) is a UK campaign group founded in 2015 seeking compensation for 3.6 million 1950s-born women over inadequate notice of State Pension age increases; the 2024 Ombudsman report found maladministration, but the government rejected compensation.
Women in China
Women in China (中国妇女): about 688 million females, 48.97% of the population. Defined by constitutional equality since 1954, one-child policy legacy, rising education, falling marriage and birth rates, and pro-natalist policy shifts.
Women in India
Women in India: status, history, and rights of Indian women. Covers the century-old women's movement, the 2023 one-third parliamentary seat reservation, female LFPR rising to 40% in 2025, the 2025 Labour Codes, and STEM participation gains.
Women in Iran
Women in Iran: female population and women's rights across Qajar, Pahlavi (1925–1979), and Islamic Republic eras; from the 1936 unveiling act and 1967 Family Protection Law to the 1979 reversal, mandatory hijab, and the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom protests.
Women in Japan
Women in Japan: legal equality since the postwar constitution, but Japan ranked 117th of 146 on the 2026 Global Gender Gap Index; Sanae Takaichi became first female prime minister in October 2025 amid low political and economic parity.
Women in Pakistan
Women in Pakistan: 48% of the population, 49% female literacy, 21–25% labour-force participation, WBL score 42.5. Covers law, education, economy, politics, Benazir Bhutto, WAF, and child marriage.
Women in Russia
Women in Russia: their legal status, work, political representation, domestic violence, and reproductive rights under Soviet legacy and current restrictive laws, with key statistics.
Women in science
Women in science: women's participation and outcomes as researchers, about 33% of researchers globally, with field-specific evidence on funding gaps, citation and authorship credit, hiring, and UNESCO policy responses.
Women in the Philippines
Women in the Philippines: history from the 1905 Asociacion Feminista Filipina and 1937 suffrage to the Magna Carta of Women (RA 9710), plus current gender-gap, political representation, and violence statistics.
Women in Vietnam
Women in Vietnam make up 50.1% of the population. They benefit from strong legal frameworks, but they still face challenges like son preference and underrepresentation in leadership.
Women's empowerment
Women's empowerment, or the empowerment of women, is the process by which women gain agency over their lives, resources, and opportunities, a goal of UN policy since the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action.
Women's Equality Party
The Women's Equality Party (WEP) was a British feminist party founded in 2015 by Catherine Mayer and Sandi Toksvig, led by Sophie Walker then Mandu Reid, peaking near 60,000 members, and voluntarily deregistered on 31 December 2024.
Women's erotica
Women's erotica: sexually explicit material centered on women's desire and pleasure, defined against pornography by Longino and Steinem, rooted in the feminist sex wars, now spanning fiction, audio, and feminist pornography.
Women's History Month
Women's History Month is the annual U.S. March observance honoring women's contributions, begun as Women's History Week under President Carter in 1980, expanded by Congress in 1987, and proclaimed annually since 1995.
Women's liberation movement
The women's liberation movement was the radical grassroots wing of second-wave feminism from the late 1960s, known for consciousness-raising groups, the 1968 Miss America protest, the 1970 Women's Strike for Equality, and Black, lesbian, and socialist feminist currents.
Women's movement literature
Women's movement literature (Frauenliteratur, Emanzipationsliteratur) is the body of texts produced by and for the second-wave women's movement in German-speaking Europe from the late 1960s through the 1980s.
Women's rights
Women's rights: human rights and legal entitlements of women and girls, grounded in the 1948 UDHR and CEDAW (1979, 189 states parties), plus regional instruments, tracked by indices such as the Global Gender Gap Index.
Women's rights by country
Women's rights by country: comparative legal status of women across nations, measured by World Bank WBL (190 economies, 10 topics), UNDP GII, OECD SIGI, and SDG 5.1.1; no country has full legal equality, women hold 64% of men's legal rights.