1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (589+ words) This year’s midterm elections have the power to dramatically alter representation in the current Republican-leaning Congress: All 435 congressional seats in the U.S. House are up for grabs, as is two-thirds of the Senate. Public health, women’s health, abortion access, the…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (1704+ words) Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and entertainment, in judicial offices and in the private sector in the U.S. and around the world—with a little…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (953+ words) Hello, feminist reader friends! Each month, I provide Ms. readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. The aims of these lists are threefold: I’ve already broken my own rule of including only…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (458+ words) The Trump administration’s hormonal obsession rages on. Last week, it was a new rule about access to testosterone in the military. Now, we are on to federal funding recommendations for teen pregnancy prevention and sex education programs—which will now…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (640+ words) Within a day of Trump’s second inauguration, we witnessed the virtual erasure of the LGBTQ+ community from the White House website, with the scrubbing of words like “lesbian” “bisexual,” “gay,” “transgender,” “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” The erasure was soon…...

5+ day, 22+ min ago   (727+ words) Over the past year, several women-focused articles in the New York Times declared feminism has gone too far, and put the onus on women to fix what is broken. An article asking if liberal feminism “ruined the workplace” broke the…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (264+ words) Nearly a decade after the rise of the #MeToo movement, public conversations about sexual harassment and assault are changing. A wave of public disclosure marked the early years of #MeToo: Women shared experiences of sexual harassment and assault that had…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (821+ words) A new online public platform—The People’s Bill of Rights 250—invites Americans to propose, discuss and vote on ideas they believe belong in the Constitution. As the U.S. marks 250 years, the bold, interactive project asks Americans not only to…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (262+ words) Even in the wake of the #MeToo movement and heightened awareness around sexual violence, sexual assault is still one of the most underreported crimes. Although one in four women will experience sexual violence in her lifetime, fewer than 5 percent of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1655+ words) Other factors—including systemic barriers to accessing pre-and postnatal care, Medicaid cuts, racism, sexism and the failure of medical professionals to take the concerns of pregnant women seriously—were not mentioned. It also lambastes the U.S. as a world…...