Women and Girls

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News, Ideas, & Events

Defense Policy

The Security State

A discussion about growing privacy concerns after the Snowden leak, women in the military, and more.

BY Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

Blog Post

07.29.2016
World Affairs

Laura Bush's Case for Remaining in Afghanistan

America’s commitment to the rights of women, the former First Lady argues, obliges it to stay the course.

BY Yoni Appelbaum, The Atlantic

Blog Post

06.28.2016
Gender Equity

A Better Future for Girls and Women

Gender equality won’t just change the lives of girls and women — it will change the world.

BY Donna Shalala

Blog Post

06.25.2016
Culture

Empower a Girl, Change the World

Young black girls do not always get to see representations of role models who look like them.

BY Beverly Bond

Blog Post

06.16.2016
Gender Equity

Moving #WomenForward

Read our highlights from a series of conversations on solving women's issues in the US and abroad.

BY Alison Decker

Blog Post

03.30.2016
Women in Leadership

Conversations Celebrating International Women's Day

This past week Aspen Institute Radio celebrated International Women's Day by featuring conversations with Tina Tchen, White House assistant to the president and chief of staff to the first lady; Melissa Harris-Perry, Wake Forest University Professor and former MSNBC host; and more.

BY Aspen Institute Staff

Blog Post

03.14.2016
Gender Equity

Women’s issues are more than clickbait

Young women are betraying their feminist foremothers by “feeling the Bern” and older women have yet to get with the times, where economic issues are as important as what chromosomes a leader claims. Or so the overly reductive narrative tells us.

BY Anne Mosle & 1 more

Blog Post

03.08.2016
Health Care

16 Reasons to Campaign for Women's Rights in 2016

In many parts of the world cows are given more rights than women.

BY New Voices Fellows

Blog Post

02.09.2016
Around the Institute

Ashley Judd on Helping Women and Girls

This past week Aspen Institute Radio featured highlights of conversations on American cultural identity, strategies to advance women’s health on a global scale, the rise of Netflix, and lessons learned from Ebola as we face a new possible threat from the Zika virus.

BY Aspen Institute Staff

Blog Post

02.08.2016
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