The Fourteenth Amendment exists because newly emancipated Black people urgently needed protection from discriminatory state ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marianne Schnall is a journalist who amplifies women’s leadership. Top row, from left: Fatima Goss Graves, Ai-jen Poo, Stacey ...

International Women’s Day is an opportunity to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women all around the world and inspire future generations of women and girls to ...

Gender equality was supposed to reduce gender stratification and segregation in academic and professional pursuits. Instead, ...

“The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty,” Abraham Lincoln once remarked, “and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using ...

Ruth Okoye, Ed. D., is a 30-year educator. She has taught in private and public school settings and is passionate about literacy, educational technology, and ed-tech coaching. She currently serves as ...

A conversation with the historian Darrin McMahon about his new book Equality: The History of an Elusive Idea and the strange and contradicting development of the liberal version of egalitarianism. Ad ...

For years the religious right has trumpeted a lie: that its opposition to LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections has to do with, or is even required by, religion. It has even, on occasion, distorted the ...

President Biden has promised to unify the nation. But candidate Joe Biden also made campaign promises to the radical wing of his party that would widen our social divides. Guess which promises are ...

In the United States, workers come from a wide variety of backgrounds, with different experiences and beliefs. As a result, employers try to support equality in the workplace. The benefits of ...

Michael and Angela have just turned fifty-five. They know two people who have died in the past few years—one from cancer, another in a car accident. It occurs to them that they should make a plan for ...

Discriminatory laws and poor enforcement foster victim-blaming and harmful stereotypes, enabling impunity for perpetrators in League of Arab States countries. Various forms of sexual violence are not ...