On a dusky evening in spring, we travel to the northwestern outskirts of Beijing, where 400,000 of the 7 million Beijing-based migrant workers and their families reside. Our guide is the gracious Pat Yang, Founder and Director of The Zigen Fund,[...]

  I do not describe myself, people describe me as they wish...   ...but above all I am an international citizen       Women's Worldwide Web interviews a wonderful woman whose relentless efforts to combat social injustice and to[...]

Women’s Worldwide Web mourns the loss and celebrates the life of Geraldine A. Ferraro—the first woman in the United States to run as vice president on a major party national ticket, and a great leader in women’s rights and social equality[...]

"On International Women’s Day, let’s not forget men. Men, by definition, have a vital role to play alongside women: men have been involved in, and need to be more involved in, initiatives to combat violence against women; men have[...]

I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free. Rosa Parks (1913—2005)     Rosa Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama in 1913, of African-American, Cherokee-Creek, and Scots-Irish[...]

As Valentine's Day approaches, we celebrate the achievements of another V-Day, a global activist movement to stop violence against women and girls. "Eve Ensler, the feminist playwright who wrote 'The Vagina Monologues' and who has worked[...]

Women’s Worldwide Web salutes the Egyptian novelist, activist, and physician Dr. Nawal el Saadawi for her life-long advocacy of women’s and children’s rights, particularly her courageous and passionate efforts to eradicate the practice[...]

"There has been so much injustice and oppression in Iraq, for such a long time. To fight it is almost an obligation."   Houzan Mahmoud was born in Iraqi Kurdistan in 1973. As a Kurd living under the regime of Saddam Hussein, she grew up[...]

“Often lost in the telling are the invisible foot soldiers who made China’s stirring rise possible: the country’s 130 million migrant workers, the subject of Leslie T. Chang’s Factory Girls.” – New York Times   Leslie T.[...]

On July 2, 2010, the United Nations General Assembly voted unanimously to create a new gender entity, led by an Under-Secretary-General, that pulls together four previously distinct parts of the UN system dedicated to women’s advancement:[...]