Rural areas have higher rates of violence against women than suburban and urban places. pocketlight/E+ via Getty Images I have been teaching a course on rural criminology since 2014, and most of my ...

The vacant Martin County General Hospital sits abandoned behind a chain since being closed since being closed in August of 2023. (AP Photo/Karl B DeBlaker) New research has found that rural women are ...

In the rolling farmlands of Traditional Authority Kabudula in Lilongwe, a quiet revolution is unfolding. Here, rural women, ...

Rural women have historically played a vital role in American farming, often performing the same tasks as men. The decline of small farms and the shift from a rural to an urban economy led to the ...

Explore the next phase of rural women's entrepreneurship, focusing on empowerment, financial innovation, and effective ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Mortality rates have been increasing for rural women with COPD. Rural women with COPD have more asthma, ...

BAKER CITY, Ore. — In what has become a routine event in rural America, a hospital maternity ward closed in 2023 in this small Oregon town about an hour from the Idaho border. For Shyanne McCoy, 23, ...

“Business worth nearly ₹850 crore generated by women from 1,500 villages indicates a structural transformation in Uttar Pradesh’s rural economy. Daily trade of close to 3.75 lakh litres of milk is ...

Far from global newsrooms and editorial boardrooms, a radically different model of journalism has been taking shape for over ...

In the Union Budget 2023, the government had announced the ‘Lakhpati Didi Scheme’, which enabled financial independence to ...

The VB-G RAM G Act, 2025 significantly expands the statutory employment guarantee by increasing assured wage employment from 100 days to at least 125 days per rural household per financial year.

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...