Trump Erases Women From Foreign Policy

The White House has overturned the decades-old bipartisan policy consensus that female empowerment serves U.S. interests.

Women doctors assist a pregnant patient at a hospital in Ghazni, Afghanistan. October 13, 2025, 7:00 AM Comment icon View Comments ( )

Trump’s Second Term

Ongoing reports and analysis

When U.S. President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January, it was clear that the U.S. approach to women’s rights and gender equality around the world would shift. Republican administrations have long diverged from Democratic ones on this front, favoring women’s economic empowerment and private-sector development over broader campaigns to challenge traditional gender norms or expand reproductive rights.

Yet rather than aga

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