List of Sex and Gender articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Following Prostitution Scandal, DEA Chief to Step Down
After a prostitution scandal and a vote of no confidence by House committee, the chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration will step down.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Do These Two Chimps Have More Rights Than a Woman in Saudi Arabia?
Two chimpanzees in New York were granted a right to habeas corpus. But in Saudi Arabia, women still need to be accompanied to a court by a male family member.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘Ashley’s War’: A look at the use of Cultural Support Teams in Afghanistan
Thousands of women have served in direct combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, as helicopter pilots, military police, artillery officers, interpreters, and K9 dog handlers, and nearly 200 of them have died, most from combat-related injuries, from RPG explosions to mortar fire to aircraft crashes. That number includes two of my fellow Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) techs: Senior Airman Liz Loncki was killed by a booby-trapped car bomb in 2007, Staff Sergeant Kim Voelz died disarming an IED in Baghdad in 2003. Her widower Max is also an Army EOD tech, and she died in his arms.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Are Women the Key to Peace in Colombia?
As the country's five-decade war winds down, how the government disarms female fighters could define the coming truce.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Preteen Sex Slaves of the Islamic State
For the young victims of the jihadist group’s systematic campaign of rape and imprisonment, the ordeal is far from over.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 ‘Here They Can Be Themselves’
How the trials and triumphs of an ancient transgender community could make headway for the slow-moving fight against a blame-the-victim culture in India.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Five Years on, Has Kyrgyzstan’s Democratic Revolution Put Down Roots?
As the revolution marks its five-year anniversary, Kyrgyzstan’s transition toward a democratic system faces its biggest litmus test yet.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Defending Women’s Rights in Afghanistan: Lives on the Line
Amnesty International launched a new report on the mounting threat and violence facing those on the front line standing up for women’s rights in Afghanistan.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Lynching, Then Anger in Afghanistan
After a brutal killing, Afghanistan’s women turn their anger toward men. But will the protests and outrage result in a change for women's rights in the country?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A few brass tacks: Why gender arguments blind the military to bigger problems
In two recent essays on the subject of women in combat, Marine Captain Katey Van Dam directly addressed the issue of women's physical aptitude for infantry combat. She is justified in taking up the case because so many opponents have used the matter of physicality as an argument against their presence in infantry units. However, no matter how well either side presents its view, both sexes have much more in common physically than they realize. What they share is a lack of physical ability that constitutes a dangerous threat to ground troops' battlefield success.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Lynching of Syed Sarifuddin Khan
India is facing a horrific rape crisis. But in India’s northeast, ethnic tensions may have led to an innocent man’s murder.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Standing Beside Afghanistan’s Iron Lady
A female Afghan performance artist recently drew international attention to the country's endemic harassment of women. But her message is now in danger of being drowned out.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Chinese Woman Walks Into a Men’s Room …
… and ends up in the cross-hairs of state security. What happened?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Women in the Middle of the War
Rampant sexual assault has unmade allegiances in Syria's civil war -- and it may well get worse no matter which side wins.
