American culture has long been bothered by the image of single women, the idea that women can live happily ever after without a husband or kids.  In 1869, a Farmer’s Almanac called them “diminished goods”. A few decades later, a 1920s-era critic described singletons as “waste products of our female population and “vicious and destructive [...]

In an attempt  to accelerate the empowerment of women, on July 2nd the UN’s General Assembly voted unanimously to create an all encompassing entity combining four United Nations offices to focus on gender equality. Declaring it a watershed, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon introduced UN Women, the newest member of the UN family, a body tasked with [...]