Tarcila Rivera-Zea, a member of the Quechua community in Peru, has spent decades pushing for Native peoples to be heard. By Shivani Vora This article is part of a Women and Leadership special ...

This is the moment a woman falls into a manhole after exiting an auto rickshaw taxi in Lima, Peru on February 17. Thankfully, bystanders who saw the accident held her dog's leash and lowered a ...

NEW YORK — Behind every woman is a stronger woman. That phrase was at the top of Hoda Kotb’s mind at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Tuesday evening. The venue was overflowing with ...

A Peruvian fisherman has been found alive in the Pacific Ocean after spending 95 days lost at sea, Peru’s state news agency Andina reported Saturday. Máximo Napa Castro, 61, set off on his ...

UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/Handout via REUTERS We sat down with Zeina Hilal, IPU’s Manager for Gender and Youth Programmes, on the eve of the 69th UN Commission on the Status of Women in New ...

EACH YEAR, to mark International Women’s Day on March 8th, The Economist publishes the glass-ceiling index. It compares working conditions for women across the OECD, a club of 29 countries.

Duchess Meghan has always been one to spotlight powerful women, but today she’s celebrating all of the strong women in her life—including those smaller in stature, like her three-year-old ...

LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s government declared yesterday a state of emergency in the capital Lima while it also deployed soldiers to the streets to help quell a recent surge of violence that ...

A Peruvian fisherman has been found alive after spending a grueling 95 days living off insects, birds and sea turtles when his food supply ran out while he was lost at sea. Máximo Napa Castro set ...

For many women, shopping for the perfect swimsuit can feel like searching for a unicorn. Will it look good on and stay on? Will I have to constantly adjust it while I’m swimming, snorkeling or e ...

It’s the no-fuss, no-frills look worn by women at home anytime in the 1960s, 1970s, or 1980s, especially as they approached middle age (which at the time would probably just be their 40s).