The blockbuster film, with ticket sales of $1.4 billion worldwide, is the highest-grossing movie ever directed solely by a woman.
The movie's abuela character is a nod to Latina guerreras
This summer’s films about women were an odd mix of stories that expanded the scope of women’s roles and those that offered tired narratives.
A new play based on Emily Wilson’s translation tells the epic story through the experiences of young women refugees.
Being neutral is not neutrality; it’s complicity.
It’s impossible to enjoy Barbie without also being made to grapple with the throes of our real world.
As writers and actors continue their work stoppage, are recent improvements in representation and opportunity in jeopardy?
Set in the 1950s and 1960s, the Emmy-winning show wrapped up its five-year run by offering messages relevant to the present.
The Inclusion List, a first-of-its-kind resource, ranks creators based on cast and crew inclusion.
The progress Hollywood has made in recent years in behind-the-scenes and on-screen representation could be reversed if the strike is settled unfavorably for writers.
Women who are starring in TV series are taking more creative control in their shows.
“The Postcard Women’s Imaginarium” is a project that uses women's artwork to offer an alternative narrative to colonial-era postcards that framed MENA women as “exotic.”
As we approach what would have been Toni Morrison’s 92nd birthday, the author reckons with the deep impact of Morrison and her work, and living with the loss of this towering literary and cultural presence.
Two major reports on women’s participation in behind-the-camera jobs shows little progress over many years, as the percentage of women in these principal creative positions still has not topped 25%.
The opportunity gap is only widening in Hollywood.
Though Wednesday is not explicitly identified as autistic in the show, many fans have interpreted the character’s behavior as evidence that she is autistic.
The documentary Nothing Compares provides a necessary reassessment of the Irish singer’s legacy.
Two new studies show that the percentage of women in key behind-the-scenes jobs has barely budged in recent years.
Black women in the U.S. are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than are white women. The new documentary Aftershock tells the stories of some of those women, and how their families are channeling grief into action.
With a simple gesture, Sacheen Littlefeather lit a fuse that would impact the rest of her life.
It’s vital for young people to find characters that we identify with so that we can not only feel confident in our own identities, but also become more accepting of identities different than our own.
A documentary and a dramatic film give a chilling portrait of the crushing impact of abortion bans — and of the courageous women who provided abortion care in pre-Roe Illinois.
Suffs, at the Public Theater in New York, does not shy away from the darker aspects of the suffrage movement, including conflicts among women.
We had the chance to ask Nagendra over email about her debut novel, the changing role of women in India in the 1920s, and how she worked to include a discussion of colonialism and feminism in her work of crime fiction.
Competition, coming of age, and grief are all major themes in Queen of the Tiles, the new novel by Malaysian author Hanna Alkaf that will hit shelves on April 19.