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When Pregnant Women Are Detained by ICE

When Pregnant Women Are Detained by ICE

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.

by Josie Cox
Trapped and Trafficked By Age 4: What It’s Like to Grow Up the Daughter of a Mail-Order Bride

Trapped and Trafficked By Age 4: What It’s Like to Grow Up the Daughter of a Mail-Order Bride

Smuggled out of Russia and brought to the U.S., Katya Suvorova grew up in fear as an undocumented immigrant. As she began to tell her story, she realized she was far from alone.

by Ruchi Kumar
How Ozempic Changed Everything

How Ozempic Changed Everything

GLP-1 medications have changed food, culture — and our bodies. A new book chronicles their history.

by Emma Haslett
‘This Is What Happens When Women Read’

‘This Is What Happens When Women Read’

Julianna Glasse was a conservative Christian pop star with a famous baseball-playing husband and a picture-perfect evangelical life. Then she started reading books.

by Josie Cox
The Tiny Test That Changed Everything

The Tiny Test That Changed Everything

Nearly 60 years ago, Meg Crane fought her male bosses to give women something radical: the ability to find out for themselves if they were pregnant.

by Kathleen Davis
Do Women Cartoonists Draw Differently?

Do Women Cartoonists Draw Differently?

A new documentary by The New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly reveals what goes through the minds of women cartoonists as they ply their trade.

by Paula Derrow
Zahra Joya Has Devoted Her Life to Telling Afghan Women's Stories. Now She's Telling Her Own

Zahra Joya Has Devoted Her Life to Telling Afghan Women's Stories. Now She's Telling Her Own

A new memoir by the exiled Afghan journalist Zahra Joya traces the trajectory of her homeland — and shows how quickly women's rights can be snatched away.

by Amie Ferris-Rotman
She’s Passionate About Keeping Us Safe From Toxic Chemicals. Just Don’t Call Her a Perfectionist.

She’s Passionate About Keeping Us Safe From Toxic Chemicals. Just Don’t Call Her a Perfectionist.

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.

by Paula Derrow
Women’s Sports Are Thriving. Will Equality Follow?

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.

by Josie Cox
‘Racism is Still a Public Health Crisis’

‘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.

by Josie Cox
People Were Calling Me an Economist. And I Was Like, ‘Am I?’

People Were Calling Me an Economist. And I Was Like, ‘Am I?’

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.

by Francesca Donner
Whitney White: 'These women were risking it all. They weren’t just liking things on Instagram.'

Whitney White: 'These women were risking it all. They weren’t just liking things on Instagram.'

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

by Josie Cox
'No One’s Dreaming of a Day When Women Would Be the Default.'

'No One’s Dreaming of a Day When Women Would Be the Default.'

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.

by Francesca Donner
How the Economics of 'Having It All' Are Burning Women Out

How the Economics of 'Having It All' Are Burning Women Out

The economist Corinne Low’s new book explores the myth of the tradwife, the trap of flexibility, and how unrealistic expectations are crushing women.

by Josie Cox
'Just Pills'—How Women Created Their Own Abortion Revolution

'Just Pills'—How Women Created Their Own Abortion Revolution

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

by Emma Haslett
‘I Refuse to Be Invisible’—Why the Author Pamela Redmond Decided to Get Naked On Stage at 72

‘I Refuse to Be Invisible’—Why the Author Pamela Redmond Decided to Get Naked On Stage at 72

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

by Paula Derrow
Even Jane Goodall Had a Sexist Boss

Even Jane Goodall Had a Sexist Boss

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

by Emma Haslett
If She Were Here Today, She’d Be President

If She Were Here Today, She’d Be President

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

by Josie Cox
‘Because it Feels So Urgent’

‘Because it Feels So Urgent’

We are on the edge of an AI revolution that is going to transform our society. What are we doing about it?

by Ellen Halliday, +1
‘The Chaotic, the Creative, the Instinctive, the Structured, the Mathematical’

‘The Chaotic, the Creative, the Instinctive, the Structured, the Mathematical’

An immersive project at Canterbury Cathedral marks the 1969 moon landing—and the women from a Navajo reservation in New Mexico who made that landing possible.

by Emma Haslett
'Quite Looking Forward to Going Mad With Grief'

'Quite Looking Forward to Going Mad With Grief'

A dying father. A world awash in Covid. A total loss of control. And a mind that refuses to snap.

by Megan Clement
'Slut-Shaming' is Evolving. This Author Set Out to Understand Why.

'Slut-Shaming' is Evolving. This Author Set Out to Understand Why.

The author Leora Tanenbaum's new book, Sexy Selfie Nation, offers advice on how we can shut down a uniquely harmful form of gender discrimination: slut-shaming.

by Josie Cox
‘Let's Be Honest, Moms Are Never In the Photo’

‘Let's Be Honest, Moms Are Never In the Photo’

The photographer Nancy Borowick takes on a taboo topic and puts mothers at the center.

by Josie Cox
If You Could Take a Pill That Erased Feelings of Guilt, Would You?

If You Could Take a Pill That Erased Feelings of Guilt, Would You?

Imagine if women could unabashedly do their thing without worrying about others’ feelings.

by Ruchika T. Malhotra
Lilly Ledbetter Has Made It to the Big Screen. It’s About Time.

Lilly Ledbetter Has Made It to the Big Screen. It’s About Time.

It took the writer and director Rachel Feldman years of doors being slammed in her face before she got her movie off the ground, but she’s finally done it: LILLY is out May 9.

by Francesca Donner

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