Women's Rights
The True Story of the Case Ruth Bader Ginsburg Argues in ‘On the Basis of Sex’
<i>Moritz v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue</i> was the first gender-discrimination suit Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued in court
All Hail the Renaissance of Artemisia Gentileschi
The London National Gallery unveiled a restored portrait of the Baroque painter and announced a 2020 retrospective dedicated to the artist
Farmworkers Rights Activist Mily Treviño-Sauceda Empowers Women to Create Change
The founder of the Alianza Nacional de Campesinas joined poet Jacqueline Suskin in a conversation about family, women, strength and unity
The Time's Up Initiative Built Upon the Work Done by These Labor Activists
How the leaders of a farmworkers' alliance reached across cultural divides to fight sexual harassment
Mary Borden's Forgotten World War I Ballad to Mark Centenary of Armistice Day
The heiress, poet and activist funded and oversaw military field hospitals during both world wars, penned series of sonnets inspired by wartime experiences
Two Activists Fighting Against Sexual Violence in Wartime Are This Year's Nobel Peace Prize Recipients
Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad are recognized for working to bring healing to victims, accountability to perpetrators and greater visibility to the public
The South Carolina Aristocrat Who Became a Feminist Abolitionist
After moving to Philadelphia and joining the Quakers, Angelina Grimké rededicated her life to fighting for racial equality
New York Museum Sorts Through Its Collections to Highlight 15 "Rebel Women" of the 1800s
Museum of the City of New York's latest exhibition puts the spotlight on these 19th-century women who defied Victorian ideals
The Historical Struggle to Rid Socialism of Sexism
When it was founded, the Socialist Party of America proclaimed itself as the champion of women's rights. The reality was much more complicated
Amelia Bloomer Didn’t Mean to Start a Fashion Revolution, But Her Name Became Synonymous With Trousers
In the 1850s, women’s rights activists briefly adopted a new style in an effort to liberate themselves from heavy dresses
The Defiant Ones
As young girls, they fought the fierce battle to integrate America’s schools half a century ago
An Elementary Lesson in Women’s Suffrage: “Timeless” Season 2, Episode 7, Recapped
The Time Team, aided by the real-life 'Mrs. Sherlock Holmes,' travels to 1919 this week to save the 19th amendment
Watch: The First Trailer for 'Mary Shelley' Explores the Many Inspirations for 'Frankenstein'
The biopic will follow Mary Wollstonecraft's scandalous teenage romance with the older Percy Bysshe Shelley and the events that shaped her most famous book
‘Our Bodies, Ourselves,’ the Revolutionary Feminist Health Book, Will No Longer Print New Editions
In the 1970s, the book promoted nonjudgemental discussions about women’s sexual and reproductive health
How Should We Archive the Soundtrack to 1970s Feminism?
It's time to talk about the lasting legacy of Olivia Records, a leading voice of the women's music movement, whose history is ready to come out of storage
The Prolific Illustrator Behind Kewpies Used Her Cartoons for Women’s Rights
Rose O’Neill started a fad and became a leader of a movement
How the 1918 Flu Pandemic Helped Advance Women’s Rights
While the virus disproportionately affected young men, women stepped into public roles that hadn't previously been open to them
During World War I, Many Women Served and Some Got Equal Pay
Remembering the aspirations, struggles and accomplishments of women who served a century ago
Women Who Shaped History
Collecting the stories of women who forever changed the course of the American story
Why We Need to Start Building Monuments to Groundbreaking Women
The brilliant female codebreakers of WWII were forgotten to history, but would that have happened had they been recognized with the same fervor as men?
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