Politics

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.

Gen Z men are most likely to believe “a wife should obey her husband”, a new survey shows—as the UN warns of global “backsliding”.

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

From peace talks to boardrooms, women still hold vanishingly few positions in business, politics and economics, a new study has found.

Recommendations to improve policing in the wake of Everard’s murder have yet to be implemented—meanwhile, for women, the world feels like a darker place.

Caroline Criado Perez’s book "Invisible Women" explains why the women of New York City are having a harder week than the men.

New research shows the extent to which sexual orientation and gender identity has been eliminated from federal data collections since the beginning of Donald Trump's second presidency.

A new poll shows growing concern among women and parents about the economic direction of America.

Abusive content and non-consensual sexual material can circulate indefinitely. Not enough is being done to stop it.

Trump has renewed pressure for the Senate to pass the SAVE Act, which requires proof of citizenship to vote. For the 69 million women who have changed their last name, this would create a barrier to voting.

What's happening in Minneapolis is an "everywhere" situation and an "all of us" situation.

Whether you’re on the ground or watching the situation unfold from afar, here's how to get involved.