Even though Anika Rahman has lived in the United States more than 20 years, the Bangladeshi native can still be stunned by gender inequities in &"the land of the free.” There’s that persi ...

NEW YORK - With poverty and the problems that go with it on the rise, more than 90 grantmaking foundations are banding together to help underserved communities in New York and the nation. They began ...

By Martha Burk   WE KEEP HEARING THAT the recent "mancession" -- so named because men lost more jobs in the U.S. economic downturn than women -- is over. Tell that to women still looking for ...

Findings from a new poll by the Ms. Foundation have been released. A majority of Americans continue to struggle in the wake of the recession, and the impact on women has been particularly severe. Des ...

In Bangladesh where she was born, Anika Rahman’s father decided he wanted a divorce. So he approached her mother and said: &"I divorce you. I divorce you. I divorce you.” He followed up w ...

In Mississippi, more than almost any state in the nation, cuts to federal programs are taking an enormous toll on families and children. Last month alone 4,000 Mississippi children lost their child ...

Last week, CBS MoneyWatch featured Ms. Foundation President and CEO Anika Rahman in this story by Jill Schlesinger on today's "womancession" and the escalating crisis of women's job loss and unemplo ...

By Attica Woodson Scott The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. — author Alice Walker By most accounts, the economy is improving. Yet the jobless ra ...

"I imagine a world in which my seven-year-old daughter doesn't say to me 'I can't be the president because I'm a girl.'" Anika Rahman was horrified and yet not surprised when her daughter expressed t ...

For millions of struggling moms, there is little to celebrate this Mother’s Day. Though the recession technically ended months ago, the bad times are far from over for growing numbers of women. ...