Anika Rahman has one mission, and it’s a big one: universal gender equality. She’s president and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women, a leading organization (founded in 1973 by Gloria Ste ...

The controversy surrounding the decision by Susan G. Komen for the Cure to withdraw grants to the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, and the reversal of the unpopular policy last week, may hav ...

Over the past week, there’s been a lot of digital ink spilled over Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s decision to pull funding from Planned Parenthood, and its swift about face. Taking the po ...

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 ...