This is a guest post by Ashley Harden, research associate in CFR’s Women and Foreign Policy Program. She examines efforts to integrate gender concerns into development programs, arguing that the ...

Research provides evidence that cisgender children (children who identify as a boy or a girl according to their assigned sex at birth) show clear patterns of gender development. By age three, they ...

The benefits of empowering women extend far beyond the immediate recipients of gender-related aid, fostering economic growth, political stability, and social cohesion. Recognizing these benefits, ...

Despite making up nearly half of the country’s population, most women in Nigeria are still excluded from political decision-making, economic opportunities and social privileges. TOBA AGBOOLA reports.

While it was long-believed that our chromosomes determined an embryo’s gender from the minute sperm impregnated the egg. However, new research may contest these previous findings. Researchers from ...

Last week Australia released its new international development policy. With Australia situated in a mostly developing neighborhood, the policy is one of the central arms of its regional foreign policy ...

The Gender Development Program at Children’s National Hospital will discontinue its gender-affirming medication prescription program for transgender minors and no longer offer transition services. An ...