Women are still grossly under-represented in media. The chart above shows the distribution of bylines for print journalists from January…

Abortion-restriction laws have swept through state legislatures since 2010. All chambers have been Republican-controlled, except in Rhode Island. Women make…

This is a human rights crisis, not a "cultural issue." 43% of Afghanistan's honor killings in the past two years…

Abortion-related deaths are exponentially more common in nations with the most restrictive abortion laws. Compared to less restrictive nations, over…

Prostitution occurs in many unregulated and few regulated ways in the United States. These are some of the more common…

Legal-abortion is one of the safest medical procedures. Unsafe-abortions, however, are a leading cause of maternal-mortality, and primarily prevented through…

While some form of abortion is legal in most parts of the globe, laws vary greatly on the grounds in…

Many proponents of Voter ID laws correctly assert that an ID requirement won't hurt many voters. However, it WILL disproportionately…

"The Church has no authority... to confer priestly ordination on women" (Pope John Paul II--Ordinatio-Sacerdotalis), referencing Jesus' selection of only…

Sexual violence includes either completed, attempted, or threatened rape or sexual assault. These rates are declining for women aged 12…

The number of sexual harassment charges decreased by 28% from 1997 (15,889 charges) to 2011 (11,364 charges). In 2008, the…

Since 1979, women have made significant gains in Congress. Women went from making up 3 percent of Congress in 1979…

Since 1986, women have had higher voter turnout rates than men at non-presidential elections. Despite higher turnouts rates, women still…

Since 1980, women have had higher voter turnout rates than men for presidential elections. The proportion of eligible female voters…

There are currently 21 women CEOs running Fortune 500 companies in the United States. This is much better than the…

Possibly due to the recent economic recession, "breadwinner moms" have increased significantly since 1960. In these households with children, women…

In women's representation in legislatures, the United States lags behind many developed and developing nations. The US even lags behind…

Of the recent 26,000 cases of sexual assault in the military, only a fraction were actually reported to authorities and…

Of the 1/3 of adolescent girls in developing nations who are married before the age of 18, only 23% use…

Of this age group, women make up 64% of all new HIV infections. Young women, married and unmarried, are at…

Women from the Scheduled Caste community, the lowest rung of India's caste system, are usually excluded in society. However, the…

Male workers make up a larger portion of the work force than female workers, while female full-time, year-round workers make…

This chart shows the median earnings for male and female full-time, year-round workers in addition to the female-to-male earnings ratio.…

In 2011, the only household type that had an estimated median income above the national average was a married couple…

A majority of the 800,000 people trafficked across national borders per year are women. However, this does not account for…

In 1995, the Fourth World Conference on Women took place in Beijing. This conference was designed to promote women's participation…

Female Americans are more likely than male Americans to be in poverty. This is true among all age groups, but…

These striking misperceptions in public opinion that most Americans have may be the result of a delayed-reaction to societal shifts.…

In most cases of sexual violence against women, police responded by taking reports. However, other actions taken were in the…

The percent of sexual violence cases against women that were reported to the police spiked in 2003. At this point…

A large majority of sexual violence cases against women were not committed with the use of a weapon. This has…

In 1980, less men than women considered these forms of harassment to actually constitute sexual harassment. For certain behaviors like…

The percentage of sexual harassment charges with no reasonable cause to believe that there was discrimination has increased from 41.4%…

In the majority of sexual harassment cases (53%), it is determined that there is no reasonable cause to believe that…

Since 1997, women have consistently outnumbered men in the number of sexual harassment charges they file each year.

The percentage of sexual harassment charges that are being filed by males has increased from 11.6% in 1997 to 16.3%…