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.
The Equal Rights Amendment is one of the most embattled pieces of legislation in the U.S. Supporters say it's just a question of publishing the damn thing.
When Kat Alexander started looping through cycles of mania, it was her best friend, Mara Altman, who came to the rescue.
The Pelicot trial pits the notion of intent against the concept of consent. The outcome could alter how these kinds of cases are handled in the future.
No age is the right age to be a woman. Unless, of course, you're Taylor Swift.
Women take on almost all of the additional responsibilities during the holidays. Our cartoonist looks at the data.
Is passing an imperfect law really worse than not doing anything at all?
Can you wear makeup and still call yourself a feminist?
Failing is as much a part of freelancing as bragging about working from home in pajamas. But we don't all fail equally.
Some people like flowers on their homewares. Some like cute animals. I like boobs.
How do you sponsor something that apparently nobody wants to see? You trick them into it.
Feminist design can show up in anything from the apps we use to the healthcare we receive. The issue is prioritizing it.
The short film, “Incompatible,” tells the story of a pregnant-working class woman making an all-but-impossible choice.
For men to be funny, women don’t have to be unfunny. Both may chuckle.
While all eyes were on Donald Trump's win, sure signs of progress emerged on Tuesday, too.
In the end, it wasn't even a close-won race. Did the Harris campaign get it wrong—or did the Trump side spot something the Democrats didn't?
Persisting Through Politics
This isn’t the note I was hoping to write. Harris lost. Trump won.
U.S. Election 2024
How Shirley Chisholm, who ran for president against all odds, forever altered the landscape for women in U.S. politics.
U.S. Election 2024
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.
Persisting Through Politics
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.
Essays
Sure, I can run a marathon. But I can also not. And maybe, just maybe, in a few years I’ll be able to.
U.S. Election 2024
In the end, the election may boil down to different ideas about female and male roles; to gender equality and gender traditionalism.
Afghanistan
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.
Education
Rwanda’s young women aren’t making it to university. Cultural and societal factors are to blame.
Work
Why, by dint of a husband being important, does his wife somehow become a less-than, no matter her qualifications?
Fair Pay
Lilly Ledbetter, for whom America’s Fair Pay Act of 2009 was named, has died. She was 86.
Politics
Some women are still backing Trump, even though they don't love his behavior—and they're even more enthusiastic about JD Vance.
Worklife
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.
Politics
Is Mexico's new president good for women? It depends who you ask.
Culture
I wanted to be the objectifier of men and their wars, quirks, and shortcomings, not the objectified. Why was this so hard?
Culture
A rewatch of Friends reveals it isn't the post-feminist masterpiece we thought it was.
Sexual violence
A single week of headlines shows sexual violence and domestic abuse deeply rooted in every corner of the globe. It’s appalling.