Flipping the Narrative: What’s Right with Women
Is the common narrative on women as victims helpful or harmful? OSF argues that women's equality is more likely to improve if women are viewed as change agents instead.
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Fifty-Five Year Recap: The US Equal Pay Act
At the 55th Anniversary of the US Equal Pay Act, are women in the US actually receiving equal pay for equal work?
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World Environment Day: What Are Women Around the World Doing to Promote Environmentalism?
On World Environment Day, find out what women activists are doing to preserve communities and the planet.
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As More Women Run for Office in Iraq, Are Gender Quotas Producing their Expected Result?
As more women are running for office in Iraq, what impact have gender quotas had and what will it take to increase women's political representation?
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Honoring Women Peacekeepers
In 2011, police women marched at the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur, commemorating the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
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A Case for Gender Mainstreaming in Peacekeeping Missions
Evidence shows that the presence of women in peacekeeping operations has a positive effect. Yet, the number of female peacekeepers sent to the field remains low.
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Honoring Women Peacekeepers
Serin Cherian, a female Nurse Officer with the Indian contingent of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), poses outside of UNIFIL’s Headquarters Hospital in Naqoura, South Lebanon.
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Why More Women? The Efficacy of Incorporating Women in Local Police Forces
Why do we need more women police? A look at India, Liberia, and Ukraine provides evidence.
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Honoring Women Peacekeepers
A female United Nations peacekeeper speaks with refugee women at Farchana Camp in Chad.
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What You Didn’t Know about Mother’s Day: The Anti-War Origins of a Hallmark Holiday
For early female anti-war activists, the original "Mother’s Peace Day" came in response to the horrors of the American Civil War and the Franco-Prussian War in Europe.
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Honoring Women Peacekeepers
Malaysian women peacekeepers receive honors at a medal ceremony in Kawkaba for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.
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Women Nobel Peace Laureates Organize First-Ever Feminist Summit at G7
At the G7 Summit in Ottawa this year, women set a new precedent with the first ever W7, a feminist summit organized by Nobel Peace Laureates.
