gender equality

Extremist violence in Pakistan is profoundly affecting the female population. We explore how women are responding to the threat and creating change.

Sexual assault in the U.S. military affects women disproportionately. We meet with survivors and military personnel to find out what’s being done to combat the problem.

Every year, hundreds of women in El Salvador are being murdered just because they’re women. We explore the culture of machismo and gang violence to find out why.

The U.S. locks up more women than any other country. Most of them have children, who are 7 times more likely to end up in prison creating a cycle of incarceration.

We follow a 14-year-old Zambian girl through a pre-wedding ritual before she marries a 48-year-old man, and we learn how child marriage threatens the entire region.

The First Nations women of Canada are disappearing and being murdered at an alarming rate.

As Colombia nears the end of a fifty-year civil war, we meet current and former female FARC soldiers to find out how they will be reintegrated into society.

As rival militias and armies battle for control of mineral-rich territories in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the rape of women has become a routine military tactic.

Ethiopia has one of the highest rates of female genital mutilation in the world. VICE heads to the Ethiopian Afar region to explore why this is and the sometimes deadly challenges it causes for young women and girls.

We go to Sweden, home to gender neutral kindergartens and gender non-conforming families, to find out what it’s like to grow up beyond the binary.

VICE China met up with trans men and woman across the country to hear about the discrimination they face at work, in social circles, and among family—and what they're doing to transform their place in Chinese society.

Dr. Sara Saeed on Pakistan's gender gap in medicine.