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.”

Experts fear that disruptions in health services could aggravate India’s already high maternal mortality and child mortality rates.

A wave of anti-LGBTQ state laws, and the recent Fulton Supreme Court ruling, show the need for the federal civil rights law that is awaiting Senate action.

Over a decade after the Great Recession, women workers are still struggling. New research identifies ways to a more inclusive economic recovery this time around.

In this Q and A, the screenwriters reveal how the woeful sex education they experienced as teens in Texas fueled the plot of their new teen road-trip movie.

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.

The exhibit coincides with the #LanAsket (“I will not be silenced”) movement against gender-based violence and harassment.

As the COVID-19 crisis intensifies, women workers, especially those who are unmarried and in low-wage jobs, have been hit especially hard.

Stress, burnout, danger: The pandemic has only worsened existing crisis conditions for nurses and other health care workers.

A new rule announced by the Securities and Exchange Commission could enable investors and other groups to hold companies accountable for their impact on communities.

Composers of color are still rare in Hollywood. Here’s how some in the industry are working to change that.

When police presence increases in response to incidents of violence, who will protect women from police?