Protests erupted this week in response to a new abortion ban, but the government has been attacking women’s and LGBTQ rights for years.

Campaigning during the pandemic has forced candidates to innovate and improvise.

Media coverage surrounding the 100th anniversary of 19th Amendment, observed this week, offers deeper and more nuanced understanding of the suffrage movement.

The 19th Amendment didn’t secure the right to vote for Native American women, despite their strong influence on suffragist ideas.

Despite the unfulfilled promise of the 19th Amendment, Black women have traveled an impressive distance over the last century, and continue to exert outsize political influence.

Wider implementation could help change the dramatic underrepresentation of women in elected office at every level.

The docuseries, And She Could Be Next, shows that women of color are “changing what the face of leadership looks like” in the United States.

During the pandemic, governments have been curtailing rights—but activists are fighting back.

The Health and Human Services department is continuing plans to undo antidiscrimination provisions of the Affordable Care Act.

Advocates are expressing concern that less than four years after the court ruled that TRAP laws are unconstitutional, it has agreed to revisit the question.

Nearly 90 percent of people in 75 countries demonstrated at least one bias against equality—with 91 percent of men and 86 percent of women showing bias in one of the four areas studied.

Thousands of women repped the resistance front and center at the fourth annual Women’s March taking place in cities across the U.S. on Saturday.

The House passed a comprehensive rights bill last year, but it died in the Senate. A new proposed compromise would ban discrimination — but with a major loophole.

An opinion issued Wednesday from the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel may scuttle an effort to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

Research shows that social media exposes female politicians to online abuse, but it also enables them to engage directly with their constituencies without the bias of mass media.

The United States has not had a working Violence Against Women Act since February, when VAWA lapsed during a rush to pass legislation to (unsuccessfully) avoid a partial government shutdown. And now, while the House has already passed a version of the act earlier this year, the Senate is refusing to take up the bill because of pressure from the National Rifle Association.

Amid ongoing violent demonstrations against the re-election of Bolivian President Evo Morales, masked protesters on Wednesday kidnapped the mayor of a small town in central Bolivia.