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Wally Funk, who was barred from becoming a NASA astronaut in the 1960s despite passing every test, finally flew to space at age 82.

Lindsay Dahl has devoted her career to getting toxic chemicals out of our homes, water and air, but the progress she’s worked for is under attack. Here’s what we all can do about it.

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

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.

Before they became marketing opportunities, International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month were milestones in a much longer and larger struggle.

Whitney White, the director of the Broadway play 'Liberation,' says modern life has made feminism more "cowardly."

The comics in Aubrey Hirsch's new book, "Graphic Rage," blow the lid open on the indignities in women’s lives and push back, one small rebellion at a time.

She did not frame her success as a triumph of gender or claim to be breaking barriers. Instead, she spoke of civic duty and circumstance

As her husband, Rob Reiner, grabs most of the headlines following the couple’s shocking murder, we remember Michele Singer Reiner’s creative and philanthropic work.

Known as Sophie Kinsella, Madeleine Wickham wrote more than 30 books selling over 45 million copies.

A new book reveals how ordinary women—not doctors—first noticed the effects of the medication now sold as so-called ‘abortion pills.’

Sometimes, a woman has to do something drastic to get the notice she deserves.

The civil-rights pioneer and feminist visionary Pauli Murray reshaped American law and identity. Her voice matters as inequality deepens.

As world leaders gather in Brazil for this year’s global climate talks, the women on the frontlines of defending the world’s forests and rivers tell us why they won’t be taking part.

Her legacy will leave a mark on the country’s history, the political aspirations of women, and the lives of all Americans.

President Trump's demolition of the White House's East Wing ignores that this "small building" has long been the symbolic heart of the nation.

They stopped cleaning and cooking; they stopped doing laundry and they stopped looking after their children. They’d had enough.

A new book by the anthropologist Keriann McGoogan reveals the drama behind the rise of the world's most famous women primatologists.

Without Bertha von Suttner, an Austrian pacifist, the Nobel Peace Prize might never have come into existence.

The author Jilly Cooper has died at 88. Her 18 novels and memoirs give us glorious insight into a bygone era.

The barrier-breaking primatologist, who dedicated her life to conservation and humanitarian projects, died aged 91.

Nothing will take away from the immense wins Ruth Bader Ginsburg secured for those who couldn’t stage their own fights. But she was complicated, and so is her legacy.

Written out of the history of suffrage, Jeannette Rankin was a remarkable feminist and congresswoman. The author Lorissa Rinehart finally tells her story.

These five women should be as famous—and well off—as Silicon Valley's finest.

Chloe Malle’s appointment comes at a moment when Vogue faces an identity crisis.