List of Sex and Gender articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Malala Can Help Defeat the Islamic State
Empowering Muslim women is the key to degrading and ultimately destroying medieval and reactionary fanaticism.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Closeted Continent
38 out of 55 African nations have laws punishing sodomy. And things may get worse before they get better.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Do Brazilian Women Really Reign Supreme?
Brazil's woman-versus-woman presidential race suggests that feminism has triumphed. The reality is more complicated. The first in our series of Lab Reports on Brazil.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Woman Was Ever Born to Such Misfortune
For the Syrian refugee cast members of a new theater production of the Euripides classic, "The Women of Troy," insult follows injury.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Bridging the Two Tunisias
So far Tunisia's revolution has managed to bridge the gap between secularists and Islamists. But can that precarious accord make it through election season?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 This Isn’t the Time to Go Wobbly on Slavery
The U.K. government has made a good start on its war on slavery. But it needs to get serious.
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Illustration by Elias Stein for FP Born Into Bad Luck
The sad fate of Japan's fire horse women.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is Polygyny a Slave to History?
How the slave trade patterns of centuries ago are still shaping African marriages today.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Are So Many Women Dying From Ebola?
Studies show that infectious disease often affects one gender more than another -- but that knowledge isn't being put into practice.