The Male Default in Medicine: How Women’s Health Became an Afterthought
From women's exclusion from clinical trials to the Thalidomide scandal, medicine has long treated women’s bodies as…
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When Patriarchy Backfires: The One-Child Policy and the Lingering Social Struggles…
While the One-Child Policy may have allowed the only child to receive more familial resources, it has also resulted…
Women Are Not Getting the Healthcare They Deserve
To recognize and deprogram the prevailing sexism in medicine, there needs to be an understanding of the root causes…
China’s Three-Child Policy Is a Threat to Working Women
Based on the increase in gender inequality following the two-child quota, gender-based workplace discrimination…
Women’s Hard-Won Rights Are Under Legislative Threat
Despite a few exceptions, 2021 to date has been a year of legislative backlash to women’s rights, repealing many of…
African Continental Free Trade Area: Canada’s Development Entry Point
A bane of Canadian foreign policy has been its tendency to shy away from meaningful engagements in Africa, but its…
Médias traditionnels vs. nouveaux médias : faut-il choisir pour s’informer?
Retour sur le phénomène viral des jupes portées par les garçons au secondaire.
The Impact of COVID-19 on Employment and Gender Equality
Many are calling COVID-19 the “biggest setback in gender equality for a generation.”
The Double Standards of Diplomacy, from West to East
In late 2017, Belgium announced that it would be sending a female ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Her Excellency…
CSW62: Shifting the Narrative on Women’s Rights from Normative to Actionable
Editor's Note: This article is part of a series of MIR articles from the International Relations Students' Society…