Politics
When online influencers Arielle Fodor and Cheyenne Hunt started getting messages from women who said they’d been harassed by the former congressman, Eric Swalwell, they listened. It made all the difference.
Forgotten Feminists
Funny, subversive and sympathetic to the plight of the housewife, Peg Bracken helped women put dinner on the table so they could get back to what they really wanted to be doing.
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Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson on the Black maternal mortality crisis and what it would take to change things.
A recent episode of the dating show ‘Love is Blind’ showed a man complaining that his new partner ‘doesn’t do pilates every day.’ That’s a problem.
Support for menopause at work isn’t just a nice thing to do. It’s an economic imperative.
In her book “The Double Tax,” the economist Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman explains why Black women pay more for their hair products and their homes, get paid less at work, and are underestimated at every turn.
Some books are so good you just need to talk about them. These picks from Persistent contributors, some older and some new, will give you a lot to chew on.
A new wave of menopause-related research is revealing just how much menopause can affect women's working lives. And it's not all bad.
New research shows men and women experienced working from home very differently before — and after — the pandemic.
Women are 29% less likely to remain at universities eight years after having a first child, with lasting impacts on pay, tenure and research output, a large Danish study has found.
Long before North Korea signaled its next leader might be female, its women were quietly making change.
In honor of National Poetry Month, we asked Persistent contributors to share their favorite poems.
Research shows that boys' reading drops during school closures and holidays, while girls’ remains steady.
I was raised to be a good girl, which meant marrying a man and being a good wife and mother. I’m giving my daughter a different legacy.