With Roe v. Wade imperiled, activists are stepping up with innovative acts of resistance.
Seyran Ateş established a mosque in Berlin that is inclusive and encourages discussion and debate.
The former state legislator, well known for her filibuster of a 2013 anti-abortion bill, speaks out on how and why we must keep fighting back against the erosion of reproductive rights.
In defiance of public opinion, state legislatures in 2021 have already passed the highest number of curbs on abortion since the 1973 Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision.
Activists whose work incorporates ecological, health, and equality campaigns have moved from protesting outside the halls of power to become elected legislators writing and passing the environmental protection frameworks that they campaigned for.
Even though she has taken on seemingly impossible tasks, for the first woman U.S. vice president, action beats inaction.
Demands to address gender-based violence have escalated after a social media movement and a brutal murder.
The New-York Historical Society exhibition traces the life of the “staunch, If discreet, feminist.”
The bipartisan bill, part of the Violence Against Women Act reauthorization, would be the first to outlaw the distribution of private intimate visual depictions without consent.
Well known for their work on screen, actresses including Halle Berry, Robin Wright, and Taraji P. Henson are now directing feature films.
The author, Wells’ great-granddaughter, aims to introduce the journalist, activist, and anti-lynching leader “to a younger generation and other people who might not be as familiar with her life.”
Ahead of the Super Bowl, the new film offers a unique view of the devaluing of “women's work.”
On December 30, 2020, Lois Diane Sasson succumbed to COVID-19.
Inspired by women's resistance, curators at more than 100 art institutions nationwide are planning exhibitions promoting social change and civic engagement.
In 2013, Sawyer moved back to Memphis and threw herself into local activist organizations, including Black Votes Matter.
Wade, an acclaimed editor, longtime activist and mentor, and the lead plaintiff in a historic sex discrimination lawsuit against the New York Times, died last week.
Ahead of Election Day, women across America turned their anxieties about the nation’s socioeconomic and racial turmoil and fears about the pandemic and the future into action by volunteering.
Frances Yasmeen Motiwalla’s path to running for Congress as a Democratic candidate was not a linear one.
For Bernadette Demientieff, the Arctic was never just some far-off region portending the coming horrors of climate change.
More than 100 women have run for president, and each one widened the possibilities of what a presidential candidate looks like.
Campaigning during the pandemic has forced candidates to innovate and improvise.
How can we build on the strengths of our common experiences, while acknowledging our differences, to demand change?
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.