The Burden of Sixty Years of Silence

What kind of world makes women’s truth telling take so long?

Our Definition of a ‘Top University’ Might Be Completely Wrong

The metrics we use to define academic excellence have never really accounted for, well, women.

The Tangled History of Women and Body Hair

A razor company’s quest to increase profits launched a 100-year beauty standard. Is it time, finally, to push back?

How We Celebrate Earth Day All Year Round

Being kind to the environment doesn’t have to take enormous effort. Case in point: Our contributors’ suggestions for painless and even pleasurable ways to save the earth.

The Silence Gap: Violence Against Women Remains Critically Undercovered in Global Media

A new report shows that media coverage of violence against women has fallen to a decade low, despite a rise in reported cases.

It’s Not Just What Brought Down the Disgraced Ex-Congressman Eric Swalwell, It’s Who

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.

Peg Bracken — The Cookbook Author Who Aimed to Keep Women Out of the Kitchen

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.

8 Women-Owned Businesses Adding Beauty and Creativity to the World

You can feel good, not guilty, about where your money is going at every one of these independently-owned enterprises.

‘Racism is Still a Public Health Crisis’

Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson on the Black maternal mortality crisis and what it would take to change things.

‘Pilates Girl’ is a Fantasy That Requires the Salary of a CEO and the Schedule of a Tradwife

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.

Menopause Can Make You Better at Your Job. Now There’s a Thought.

Support for menopause at work isn’t just a nice thing to do. It’s an economic imperative.

People Were Calling Me an Economist. And I Was Like, ‘Am I?’

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.