DeVos' proposals are a mixed bag of measures that, on the whole, threaten to make it more difficult for victims of sexual discrimination to seek justice. The most controversial stipulations aim to narrow the definition of sexual assault, restrict Title IX cases to those occurring on campus, and limit the university officials authorized to act on assault allegations.

The bad news is that the anniversary of the Women, Peace, and Security Act has now come and gone—and there's still no visible sign of a strategy. More than just a missed deadline, this failure may have significant consequences for security on the international stage.

Many commenters have raised concerns that the proposal will discourage survivors from coming forward, even in an era when people seem to be speaking out about sexual misconduct more than ever.

Menstrual products can be a substantial financial burden, especially considering that women are already making 82 cents to the dollar of every man, and that 16.3 million American women are living in poverty. According to HuffPost, the average woman who menstruates for 38 years will spend over $2,000 on tampons and liners in her lifetime.

Psychologists want to help improve men's health, not wage a war. As the guidelines note, socialization to traditionally masculine traits might prevent a suicidal man from asking for help, or skew another toward violence. Decades of research shows "that traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage that echoes both inwardly and outwardly," as Stephanie Pappas wrote in the APA's Monitor on Psychology magazine.

Two criteria substantiate gender: socially determined roles and an internal sense of identity. Neither of these by itself is enough to fully encompass what gender is, but most experts appear to agree that each is a necessary aspect of gender. Therefore, to assess the common claim that gender is unique to humans, we need to look at how other species fare with respect to these two criteria.

Skeletal studies and the history of this field show how our society's assumptions about sex can lead to profound mistakes, and how acknowledging that things are not really as binary as they may seem can help to resolve those errors.

"Women's economic empowerment is central to gender equality. Various studies have shown that putting more money in women's hands, compared to men, is the smart thing to do. Women invest their money in their families and communities, which really are the foundations of strong societies."

The Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law and the ACLU to advance the current case, Grace v. Sessions. Drawing on many years of research, experts at the Center argue that calling domestic abuse "private violence" obscures the reality that, in many countries, individual instances of abuse are part of a broader wave of violence against women. In other words, asylum seekers aren't just fleeing domestic abuse—they're fleeing gender-based violence.

The National Women's Law Center, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the Center for Reproductive Rights filed suit against the Trump administration and Notre Dame on behalf of a group of student activists, known as Irish 4 Reproductive Health.

Three new books argue that transforming motherhood for the better will require transforming each part of women's "double shift"—that is, women's performance of both wage labor and reproductive labor. Since the 1970s, stagnant real wages have pushed women into the workforce, but women still take on the majority of the cooking, cleaning, and childcare.