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Women Across Frontiers. Inc. We seek to raise awareness of pressing women’s rights issues through on-the-ground original reporting, interviews, profiles, and commentary.

Women Across Frontiers, Inc. is a quarterly digital publication with 501 (c) (3) status registered in New York, USA dedicated to furthering gender equality around the globe. Women Across Frontiers is accessible at www.wafmag.org. We provide a platform for women’s rights advocates, their allies, and thriving women’s empowerment projects working successfully for change around the world. Our cutting-edge stories are filed by a diverse group of international contributors—including journalists, academics, and activists— supported by a team of professional photographers whose images provide powerful visual documentation of these women’s stories. We attempt to inform and stimulate discussion about events, practices, trends, laws and policies that directly shape women’s lives, and, eventually, to inspire action in our quest for global gender justice.

A milestone for women’s health: this Wednesday, Congress will hold its first-ever hearing on menopause.Sen. Kirsten Gill...
09/14/2026

A milestone for women’s health: this Wednesday, Congress will hold its first-ever hearing on menopause.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is convening the Senate Committee on Aging hearing, titled “Half the Country, Zero Hearings: Meeting the Moment to End the Menopause Care Gap in America.” As the committee’s senior Democrat, Gillibrand is entitled to lead one hearing each year on a topic of her choice and she chose menopause.
She wants to use the hearing to make the case for more federal funding for menopause research and to push for changes to address how unprepared many medical professionals are to provide women with the guidance and care they need.
Experts participating include two gynecologists, the dean of the University at Buffalo’s School of Public Health, and the executive director of NYU’s Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center.
For too long, menopause has been under-researched and under-discussed. This hearing brings women’s midlife health to the national stage and marks an important step toward change.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand

Gloria Steinem once described the 1977 National Women’s Conference as a “before or after” moment in her life.Today, so m...
09/03/2026

Gloria Steinem once described the 1977 National Women’s Conference as a “before or after” moment in her life.

Today, so many of us feel our own before and after—a world with Gloria, and a world without her.

Her words remain:
“Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”

And her legacy reminds us that the movement was never about one woman. It belongs to all of us who believe in equality, justice, and human rights. ❤️

Gloria Steinem, who gave her 92 extraordinary years to the freedom and rights of women, died yesterday at home.She was f...
09/03/2026

Gloria Steinem, who gave her 92 extraordinary years to the freedom and rights of women, died yesterday at home.

She was fierce and funny, a writer who became a warrior, and a leader who, till the end, threw her door open for women organizing on behalf of their lives.

Gloria Steinem, an organizer and activist who, perhaps more than anyone else, helped sustain the women’s movement through the second half of the 20th century and into the 21st, through battles over reproductive rights, economic equality, sexual harassment and other issues that affect the lives of millions of women, died Sept. 2 at her home in New York City. She was 92.

Her death was announced by her foundation, Gloria’s Foundation, on social media. It did not provide a cause of death.

Few, if any, feminist leaders since Betty Friedan, the author of the 1963 manifesto “The Feminine Mystique,” matched Ms. Steinem’s influence on their cause.

As a journalist and founder of Ms. magazine, and as a political activist, public speaker and ever-present figure in national affairs, Ms. Steinem became a symbol of second-wave feminism — the expansion of the movement beyond women’s suffrage into a broader campaign for equality in the workplace, in the home and under the law.

RIP

Yayoi Kusama spent a lifetime turning darkness into something the world could step inside.The legendary Japanese artist ...
08/27/2026

Yayoi Kusama spent a lifetime turning darkness into something the world could step inside.

The legendary Japanese artist has died at 97, leaving behind a body of work unlike anyone else’s. From childhood, Kusama experienced vivid hallucinations that filled her world with dots, patterns, and endless repetition. Art became a way to give those experiences form, transforming fear, anxiety, and pain into the colorful, immersive worlds that would eventually captivate millions.

Her path was anything but easy. She survived an abusive childhood, worked in a military factory during World War II, fought for space as a Japanese woman in the male-dominated New York art world, and voluntarily lived in a psychiatric hospital for nearly five decades, continuing to create until the end of her life.

She turned the worlds she saw in her mind into something millions of people could see, feel, and experience for themselves. Her art will keep inviting us in.

RIP Kusama
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RIP Jeanne.. ❤️💪 “Rosie the Riveter” Jeanne Gibson, 100, passed away on July 29, 2026.During World War II, millions of A...
08/02/2026

RIP Jeanne.. ❤️💪 “Rosie the Riveter” Jeanne Gibson, 100, passed away on July 29, 2026.

During World War II, millions of American women stepped up to join the wartime workforce, many for the first time, as defense industry jobs traditionally held by men opened to them. These women—known as Rosie the Riveters after the iconic image—played a crucial role in producing supplies, supporting the Allied forces, and reshaping American society. Rosie became a symbol of all of the women who stepped out of their homes to contribute to the war effort.

Jeanne was one of the more than six million American women who served on the home front as a “Rosie” during World War II. In 2024, Jeanne and her fellow Rosies were collectively awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in recognition of their extraordinary contributions.

Jeanne also remained a passionate advocate for preserving the legacy of the Rosies, volunteering at Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park on “Rosie Fridays” and inspiring countless people to learn about the women who helped win the war. Just days ago, Jeanne was honored with a Wall of Honor banner at the park and recognized during a San Jose Earthquakes halftime show celebrating local Bay Area heroes.

📷: Tammy Brumley; PHP

Making history: Queen Máxima of the Netherlands has made history by becoming the first reigning monarch to participate i...
07/28/2026

Making history: Queen Máxima of the Netherlands has made history by becoming the first reigning monarch to participate in an LGBTQ+ Pride event, inaugurating 2026 in . Welcoming attendees at Vondelpark, where this year’s festivities officially began, she sent a powerful message of solidarity and support for the + community. “Your majesty, today you are not alone,” Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema told her during ceremony. “You are here in the company of queens from all backgrounds. Welcome to the queens!”

06/24/2026

“Look at me, please. Do you believe us now? Will you apologize?”
Former hostage Ilana Gritzewsky addressed the UN Human Rights Council, confronting UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women Reem Alsalem over the failure to acknowledge and address the sexual violence committed by Hamas on and during captivity.
Speaking directly to the Council, Ilana said that reports on violence against women have ignored the experiences of Israeli victims and hostages, while Alsalem avoided looking at her during the testimony.
A powerful and deeply painful testimony, reminding us that all victims of sexual violence deserve to be seen, heard, and recognized.

Video: Elad Gershgoren / Ynet

It was a historic moment at the match between Czech Republic and South Africa. Tori Penso, Brooke Mayo, and Kathryn Ne...
06/20/2026

It was a historic moment at the match between Czech Republic and South Africa.

Tori Penso, Brooke Mayo, and Kathryn Nesbitt took to the field as the first all-American and all-female officiating crew. Out of the tournament’s 170 officials, just six are women.

The trio expertly handled key offside decisions, penalty calls, and the pressure that comes with officiating on the sport’s biggest stage, showing that women belong in every part of the game.

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It was a historic moment at the match between Czech Republic and South Africa. Tori Penso, Brooke Mayo, and Kathryn Ne...
06/20/2026

It was a historic moment at the match between Czech Republic and South Africa.

Tori Penso, Brooke Mayo, and Kathryn Nesbitt took to the field as the first all-American and all-female officiating crew. Out of the tournament’s 170 officials, just six are women.

The trio expertly handled key offside decisions, penalty calls, and the pressure that comes with officiating on the sport’s biggest stage, showing that women belong in every part of the game.

In South Africa, millions of girls and women are forced to use newspapers, cardboard, cloth, and other makeshift materia...
06/15/2026

In South Africa, millions of girls and women are forced to use newspapers, cardboard, cloth, and other makeshift materials because period products are simply unaffordable and out of reach.

Created by the MENstruation Foundation in partnership with the agency Joe Public and Independent Media, this striking campaign printed blood stains across newspaper pages, turning a familiar object into a powerful statement on what period poverty looks like for more than 4 million schoolgirls. Readers opened their newspapers to find what appeared to be a period stain bleeding through the front page and onto the pages that followed, a visual representation of a reality that many girls live with every month.

No one should have to miss school, opportunities, or everyday moments because they can’t access basic menstrual products. The conversation around menstrual health needs to happen every day, until period poverty is no longer a reality.

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