Politics

The hard work is over, now the hard work begins.

More than 100 Democratic women have won House seats, while Melat Kiros, Peggy Flanagan and Juliana Stratton made history with groundbreaking victories.

For more than a century, politicians have tried to figure out what women want. History suggests they've been asking the wrong question.

How women have passed the tradition of voting down generations.

Centuries after women were burned at the stake for witchcraft, the archetype of the dangerous, unruly woman continues to haunt us. Now we’re reclaiming it.

Next Tuesday, voters in Idaho, Nevada, Virginia and Missouri will be choosing more than their representative.

As more pregnant women are detained by U.S. immigration authorities, the Women's Refugee Commission is asking what’s happening to them behind closed doors.

Pronatalists are part of a collection of niche right-wing movements that have discovered that they can lend one another political weight.

The numbers of women in state government has risen sharply since 2022, but new research finds that mothers — particularly those with very young children — remain significantly underrepresented.

A new study shows that a wife’s response to a cheating husband acts as a powerful social signal.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is on Instagram talking about follicles, fertility and the biological clock. It matters.

If you haven’t listened to Michelle Obama's speech yet, maybe you should.

From suffragists’ embroidered banners calling for votes for women to the potent symbolism of pink pussy hats, stitchwork has always been a distinctly feminist way of rebelling.

There’s something really creepy about America’s bi-annual fertility report. Why, in the age of Epstein, is the U.S. government still considering the breeding capabilities of 14-year-old girls?

For years, a confident E. Jean on the outside masked a wounded E. Jean on the inside.

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.

Immigrant enforcement tactics have driven many caregivers into hiding or out of the U.S. altogether. The ripple effects on parents are enormous.

A new study finds most companies remain committed to inclusion efforts despite legal and political backlash.

A high-profile New York congressional race is full of qualified women candidates. As ever, they’ve been left out of the frame.

Women activists and journalists are being targeted in increasingly scary ways, forcing many to self-censor, as AI supercharges levels of online abuse.

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

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

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.

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

Women-centered forms of resistance have been reduced to laughable stereotypes by their detractors for centuries. The purpose? To put women back in their boxes.