Art and Design
‘Engorged With Milk and Aching For My Child’
Throughout history, breastfeeding is depicted as a symbol of maternal love, but pumping seems a more accurate reflection of what being a parent looks like in a late-capitalist society.
This is What Helps Us Find Motivation On Hard Days
When everything feels like a lot, these habits, rituals, music and more help us to keep moving forward.
Women’s Sports Are Thriving. Will Equality Follow?
Audiences for women’s sports are surging and investment is rising. But a mismatch between viewership and advertising is curbing how far the boom can go.
Chronic Stress From Racism Makes Pregnancy More Dangerous for Black Women
New research from the University of Cambridge shows how chronic stress linked to racism and inequality may trigger physiological changes in the body and increase risk during pregnancy.
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.