Essays from The Persistent | Covering women for a change

The 1917 painting by Laura Knight, shows a woman in an orange dress standing on rocks, looking down at the ocean.

Art

Below the Surface of Women’s Art, Centuries of #MeToo, Misogyny

Viewers who take the time to look closely at Tate Britain's "Now You See Us" will uncover a great deal about the plight of professional women artists over the last 400 years.

An illustration made of black and white cutouts of a woman's body, reconfigured in a tangle.

Sex education

School Sex Ed Left Me Feeling Isolated. That’s a Safety Issue.

The sexual disempowerment of disabled women crops up again and again. It starts with non-inclusive sex ed in school.

An illustration of a woman wearing a jumpsuit, with her hands in her pockets, looking at art in a gallery.

Culture

How Everyday Sexism Is Sewn Into Our Clothes

Pockets should be a given—as essential as elastic in our underwear or buttons on our coats, writes the author Josie Cox.

An animation still of the popular cartoon dog, Bluey, with her parents and sister by a tree.

Parenting

Bluey Has Taken the Easy Way Out On Infertility

Those going through infertility are owed our compassion. Why can’t fiction mirror real life?

A conceptual illustration of a black woman with her hands on her hips. A silhouette of a woman climbs stairs on her dress.

Worklife

The Relentless Art of Salary Negotiation

Execs at a TV station promised to "do better" on women's salaries. Why was it so hard for one woman to close the $30,000 gap?