The 2024 U.S. presidential election could be the first election clearly decided by women, in a landmark assertion of power by the majority.

The president of Women in Africa (WIA) Initiative, Hafsat Abiola, shares her experiences for International Women’s Day under the theme “Invest in women: Accelerate progress.”

The post-World War II era would have looked very different had Henry Wallace become president.

More than two years into his presidency, Joseph Biden has achieved some of his gender equality goals, and fallen short on others.

New data from CFR’s Women’s Power Index tracks countries on their progress toward gender parity in political representation.  

No interlocutor for Haiti mission’s international troops and Peru’s “pact of the corrupt” is succeeding where Guatemala’s failed without international pressure.

Women made modest gains in representation in the 2022 Congressional midterms but the path for women's issues in the 118th Congress is uncertain.