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.
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How Shirley Chisholm, who ran for president against all odds, forever altered the landscape for women in U.S. politics.
With hours to go before voting begins, the Trump campaign is trying new tactics to establish a MAGA future—and many of those attack women.
The journalist Jessica Valenti chronicles the pro-life movement in forensic detail in her new book. Ahead of the election, she says, voters need to get angry.
Sure, I can run a marathon. But I can also not. And maybe, just maybe, in a few years I’ll be able to.
In the end, the election may boil down to different ideas about female and male roles; to gender equality and gender traditionalism.
It is dangerous to protest in Afghanistan. But it is also dangerous to be a woman. That’s what keeps Afghan women speaking out in whatever ways they can.
Rwanda’s young women aren’t making it to university. Cultural and societal factors are to blame.
Why, by dint of a husband being important, does his wife somehow become a less-than, no matter her qualifications?
Lilly Ledbetter, for whom America’s Fair Pay Act of 2009 was named, has died. She was 86.
Some women are still backing Trump, even though they don't love his behavior—and they're even more enthusiastic about JD Vance.
Women are told to lean in and dare to lead, to be a girlboss and to speak up. But nothing is easy about this. And none of it is risk-free.
Is Mexico's new president good for women? It depends who you ask.
I wanted to be the objectifier of men and their wars, quirks, and shortcomings, not the objectified. Why was this so hard?
A rewatch of Friends reveals it isn't the post-feminist masterpiece we thought it was.
A single week of headlines shows sexual violence and domestic abuse deeply rooted in every corner of the globe. It’s appalling.
For decades, the Republican Party has laid claim to “family” and “freedom.” That’s changing.
A new report shows a fifth of women are the "only" woman in the room at work. At the current rate it will take two generations for women to stop being the odd one out.
The founder of Planned Parenthood advanced women's rights immeasurably. But many of her views were far from progressive.
At Tuesday's debate, the few personal attacks Trump had prepared for Harris were noticeable for their studied lack of sexism—at least outwardly.
Two years after her passing, the jury's still out.
The founder of Women Photograph on how diversity in photojournalism can change the conversation. (Yes, it really matters.)
The U.K. government’s plan to give workers the right to request a four-day work week could be a win for gender equality.
Maternal mortality is shockingly high in the U.S. What exactly is being done about it?
The Paralympics is always a wonderful spectacle—but let's be honest: they won't change anything for disabled people.
High spirits at the DNC revolved around excitement for Kamala Harris possibly smashing the glass ceiling. But underneath the rah-rah-rah was an undercurrent of worry.