'It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.' Wait, Is It?
Women take on almost all of the additional responsibilities during the holidays. Our cartoonist looks at the data.
Women take on almost all of the additional responsibilities during the holidays. Our cartoonist looks at the data.
Is passing an imperfect law really worse than not doing anything at all?
Can you wear makeup and still call yourself a feminist?
Failing is as much a part of freelancing as bragging about working from home in pajamas. But we don't all fail equally.
Some people like flowers on their homewares. Some like cute animals. I like boobs.
How do you sponsor something that apparently nobody wants to see? You trick them into it.
Feminist design can show up in anything from the apps we use to the healthcare we receive. The issue is prioritizing it.
The short film, “Incompatible,” tells the story of a pregnant-working class woman making an all-but-impossible choice.
For men to be funny, women don’t have to be unfunny. Both may chuckle.
While all eyes were on Donald Trump's win, sure signs of progress emerged on Tuesday, too.
In the end, it wasn't even a close-won race. Did the Harris campaign get it wrong—or did the Trump side spot something the Democrats didn't?
This isn’t the note I was hoping to write. Harris lost. Trump won.
How Shirley Chisholm, who ran for president against all odds, forever altered the landscape for women in U.S. politics.
With hours to go before voting begins, the Trump campaign is trying new tactics to establish a MAGA future—and many of those attack women.
The journalist Jessica Valenti chronicles the pro-life movement in forensic detail in her new book. Ahead of the election, she says, voters need to get angry.
Sure, I can run a marathon. But I can also not. And maybe, just maybe, in a few years I’ll be able to.
U.S. Election 2024
In the end, the election may boil down to different ideas about female and male roles; to gender equality and gender traditionalism.
Afghanistan
It is dangerous to protest in Afghanistan. But it is also dangerous to be a woman. That’s what keeps Afghan women speaking out in whatever ways they can.
Education
Rwanda’s young women aren’t making it to university. Cultural and societal factors are to blame.
Work
Why, by dint of a husband being important, does his wife somehow become a less-than, no matter her qualifications?
Fair Pay
Lilly Ledbetter, for whom America’s Fair Pay Act of 2009 was named, has died. She was 86.
Politics
Some women are still backing Trump, even though they don't love his behavior—and they're even more enthusiastic about JD Vance.
Worklife
Women are told to lean in and dare to lead, to be a girlboss and to speak up. But nothing is easy about this. And none of it is risk-free.
Politics
Is Mexico's new president good for women? It depends who you ask.
Culture
I wanted to be the objectifier of men and their wars, quirks, and shortcomings, not the objectified. Why was this so hard?
Culture
A rewatch of Friends reveals it isn't the post-feminist masterpiece we thought it was.
Sexual violence
A single week of headlines shows sexual violence and domestic abuse deeply rooted in every corner of the globe. It’s appalling.
Persisting Through Politics
For decades, the Republican Party has laid claim to “family” and “freedom.” That’s changing.
Worklife
A new report shows a fifth of women are the "only" woman in the room at work. At the current rate it will take two generations for women to stop being the odd one out.
Abortion
The founder of Planned Parenthood advanced women's rights immeasurably. But many of her views were far from progressive.
Persisting Through Politics
At Tuesday's debate, the few personal attacks Trump had prepared for Harris were noticeable for their studied lack of sexism—at least outwardly.
Royalty
Two years after her passing, the jury's still out.