With Roe v. Wade imperiled, activists are stepping up with innovative acts of resistance.
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.
The details of the case of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo are all too familiar across many workplaces.
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.
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.
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.
The Biden administration's early actions to promote LGBTQ equality are getting high marks from rights groups.
As Biden calls for a review of enforcement guidelines, advocates are pushing the administration to do more than just repair Trump-era harms.
There is a long list of actions the new administration and Congress should take for women and girls, but we can start with six things.
More than 100 women have run for president, and each one widened the possibilities of what a presidential candidate looks like.
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.