While there were some proto-feminists in ancient Greece, feminism as a movement began in Greece in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when women across the US and Europe began fighting for their rights.
Women from the US, UK, and Ireland...
Euripides’ dismissal by some as a misogynist sits uncomfortably alongside his complex and sympathetic female characters.
By Paul Salmond
The Athenian poet Euripides was the last of the three great Greek tragedians, after Aeschylus and Sophocles -- and also the least successful.
Greek tragedies were...
On Tuesday, the Taliban suspended the right for women to access university education. The ban on women entering higher education follows earlier revocations of women's educational rights made earlier this year.
The Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 2021 amid...
Fury grew in Iran over the death of a twenty-two-year-old Iranian woman after falling into a coma following her arrest by Iran's morality police, who were enforcing strict hijab rules, last week.
Mahsa Amini and her family, who had traveled...
US President Joe Biden responded to the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v Wade on Friday, stating that it is a "sad day for our country."
The US Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, the historic 1973 case in...
On Friday, the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the historic 1973 case where the court decided that abortion was a constitutional right in the US.
By a 6-3 decision, the court overturned the ruling, leaving decisions regarding access...
Females are on the front lines of the conflict in Ukraine, adding their talents and fighting spirit to the resistance as they defend their country on this International Womens' Day in 2022.
After women have won so many rights around...
