Forgotten Feminists
Bread Lines on the Upper West Side and America's Missing Moral Conscience
The civil-rights pioneer and feminist visionary Pauli Murray reshaped American law and identity. Her voice matters as inequality deepens.
Forgotten Feminists
Forgotten Feminists
María Corina Machado Won the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize. For That, It’s a Woman We Have to Thank.
Without Bertha von Suttner, an Austrian pacifist, the Nobel Peace Prize might never have come into existence.
Forgotten Feminists
Why RBG’s Complicated Legacy Doesn’t Bother Me
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.
Forgotten Feminists
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.
Forgotten Feminists
The Tech Mogul “Steve” Who Looked Out for Women
Her software company would change everything; perhaps most notably how—and where—women could work.
Forgotten Feminists
Who Gets to be a Wartime Hero?
Overlooked stories of women are everywhere. Sometimes you just need to find them.
Forgotten Feminists
My Reluctant Feminist Hero
In a world in which wealth and opulence seem to beget political power, I long for a leader with un-showy discipline. I can’t help thinking of Angela Merkel.
Forgotten Feminists
Henrietta Lacks: A Moral Wrong That May Never Be Righted
Her name may not be a household name, but ‘HeLa cells’ from Henrietta Lacks's cervix changed the world.
Forgotten Feminists
Why Can’t We Just Pass the ERA? It’s Complicated.
The Equal Rights Amendment is a simple 24-word piece of legislation. But it’s also a historic movement, more than a century in the making, that began with women’s suffrage and continues to this day.
Forgotten Feminists
‘Women Should Have Children Instead of Poodles’—When Birth Control Came to Washington
The idea of birth control entered the national conversation in 1919, when an artist, activist, and single mother named Mary Ware Dennett brought the (quite shocking!) idea to Congress.
Forgotten Feminists
As America Votes Harris vs. Trump, One Woman’s Legacy Looms Especially Large
How Shirley Chisholm, who ran for president against all odds, forever altered the landscape for women in U.S. politics.
Forgotten Feminists
Remembering Lilly Ledbetter: A Life of Grit and Persistence
Lilly Ledbetter, for whom America’s Fair Pay Act of 2009 was named, has died. She was 86.