Saturday Night Live, a cultural mainstay that has offered healing and hope at pivotal moments of national crisis, chose instead to rub salt in the wound in its first post-election episode.
Two new studies show that the percentage of women in key behind-the-scenes jobs has barely budged in recent years.
Her confirmation hearings showed an extraordinary contrast between Jackson’s worthiness and judicial temperament, and Republican senators’ tirades and temper tantrums.
Pandemic-related lockdowns disproportionally burden women. By asking the right questions, policymakers can create policies that alleviate that burden.
Writer Alison Friedman reflects on what Christine Blasey Ford's courage has meant to many women.
In a lawsuit filed against US Soccer on International Women's Day in March, 28 members of the US women's national soccer team (USWNT) reported earning 38 percent less than male US soccer players and claimed the pay disparities are unlawful under the Equal Pay Act and Title VII. The Soccer Federation finally agreed to enter mediation with the women's soccer team regarding their lawsuit fighting the team's pay gap.
A bipartisan group of legislators reintroduced The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) last Tuesday, with the aim of closing the gap between existing protections for pregnant workers and discrimination that still persists against them
Pro-choice activists are in mourning this week after the Alabama state legislature passed the country's most restrictive abortion bill and Gov. Kay Ivey signed it into law on Thursday.
Congress held a hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) on Tuesday, the first in 36 years. The development comes amidst a renewed effort on the part of state and federal Democratic legislators to push for the amendment’s ratification.
Women now hold 102 seats in the House, the most ever. But thanks to Trump, 2018 was the political Year of the White Man.
Populist nationalist political leaders have been increasingly rising to power in recent years all over the world — from Bolsonaro in Brazil to the success of the Vote Leave campaign in the UK to President Trump. Now a group of female leaders has banded together to warn the world about how this growing embrace of right-wing authoritarianism undermines women’s rights across the globe.
Women are taught that expressions of anger are unwelcome and unacceptable. Gadsby and Turner, each in her own way, are defying expectations.
A new study finds that mainstream media outlets were complicit in spreading right-wing propaganda during the 2016 campaign.
One day earlier this month, I woke up to several alerts from friends and acquaintances sharing with me articles about a Google software engineer, James Damore, who had written an internal memo called “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber.” In the memo, Damore criticizes Google’s diversity efforts ....
As the Trump administration moved forward on Thursday with new guidelines that severely restrict travel from six Muslim-majority countries, yet again the country was distracted by Trump’s latest grotesque, sexist tweetstorm.
A Vogue India video with a message of women’s empowerment has people asking, Is it a feminist campaign or a PR stunt?
