Several advocacy groups are charging that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos' rollback of Title IX protections is unconstitutional.
The ACLU, along with three other legal advocacy groups, filed a federal class action lawsuit late Sunday night against Dallas County, Texas, alleging that poor people charged with misdemeanors and felonies are being detained indefinitely while those who can afford bail are walking free.
The Women's March marks its one year anniversary with huge turnouts at marches all over the U.S., and launches a campaign to mobilize candidates and voters.
Thousands of people are feeling the immediate impact of the decision to force thousands of immigrants to leave the U.S.
Today, the Trump administration established yet more barriers for women, LGBTQ people, and others to access the urgent care they need by providing additional protections to health care workers who refuse to provide treatment because of their moral or religious beliefs.
In a year when an unprecedented number of female producers brought stories about women to the big screen, Academy Award nominations could include more women than ever — but still, few women of color are likely to be up for awards.
The U.S. federal minimum wage is just $7.25 per hour, and most states' under $9. Minimum-wage workers — more than two-thirds of whom are women — have made some gains, and this year their fight continues.
Close to 50 military veterans, service members, and their supporters gathered outside of the Pentagon for a #MeTooMilitary demonstration today. The protest came just hours after Sunday night’s Golden Globes ceremony.
While American women reach new milestones, including holding a record number of seats in the Senate, their representation in national legislative office still lags behind a hundred other countries, including falling two places below Saudi Arabia, which is notorious for its terrible treatment of women.
The first year of the Trump administration has been marked by attacks, direct and indirect, on the rights of people with disabilities, including the latest — a bill to weaken the Americans with Disabilities Act.
In three cases of undocumented minors needing abortions, the government has argued that merely allowing the women to physically leave a detention facility would amount to facilitating their abortions, even though no one is asking the government to transport the women to clinics or to pay for their abortions.
How have advertisers responded to this year's shifts in gender politics?
A House of Representatives committee has approved a bill that builds on the Trump administration’s erosion of Title IX.
As a crucial FCC vote nears, a broad coalition is mobilizing to keep an open Internet in the United States.
Anti-abortion advocates are using a "free speech" argument to try to skirt a reproductive health law.
The Republican bill is one step closer to becoming law.
As the administration continues to absorb legal blowback and fight cases in federal courts, Trump has quietly pushed ahead with his mission to remake the federal judiciary in his image: one that is very white, very Republican, and very male.
Why is a woman's truth-telling about sexual violence considered “adult content”?
A growing movement is calling for leaders in the field to address rampant misogyny.
Washington Post film critic Ann Hornaday is one of the best in the business — and her feminist perspective on film and Hollywood is increasingly necessary these days.
Big Tech monopolies are endangering the Republic and free speech. It's time for some common-sense regulation.
A behind-the-scenes look at last week's Women's Media Awards, which highlighted the crucial work of media truth-tellers.
Maxine Waters was among the 4,000 leaders and activists who gathered for the Women's Convention to inspire intersectional movement building and to mobilize for the 2018 midterm elections.
A confluence of normalized misogyny and devaluing of women made Thursday’s Women’s Media Awards all the more uplifting, emphasizing the power of sisterhood and the voices of women in media.
Five hundred guests attended the Women’s Media Awards on October 26 at Capitale in New York City.
MSNBC analyst and senior policy adviser to the 2016 Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign Maya Harris hosted. Honorees were Hillary Rodham Clinton, Maria Hinojosa, Ashley Judd, April Ryan, María Elena Salinas, and Gail Tifford. And we celebrated the landmark 80th birthday of our co-founder Jane Fonda.