Why do we watch dramas about right-wing women?

How Tara Reade’s allegations bring us back to a familiar cycle of denial and complicity

One in three jobs held by women in the U.S. is deemed “essential” right now. Will we value that labor after the crisis has passed?

Susan Fowler’s memoir is a remarkable record of personal struggle—but shows the problem with trusting the system.

Recollections of My Nonexistence is big on relatable feminist insights but skips the difficult questions.

A long prison sentence can’t repair the harm he caused for dozens of women over many decades. What would it look like to demand more?

Midlife was once seen as a chance for women to reassert themselves. Then came an organized, misogynist backlash.

Grassroots Democrats are marching and donating, but they are not forging a movement.

Eastman was a women’s suffragist, labor reformer, and founder of the ACLU, but her work never quite took center stage.

How an employment case in the United Kingdom revealed the ugly contours of anti-trans discrimination

When the women of Fox News rise up against Roger Ailes, who are they fighting for?

Confronting the ugly legacy of military prostitution in South Korea

Why do they hate us?

How feminist performance artists found a way to express the trauma of sexual violence

Lisa Taddeo’s "Three Women" is an unsparing portrait of desire.

The author’s latest book “Outrages” has been postponed. But she was once essential reading.

Would the world be a better place if we raised children collectively?

It's been a half-century since Gloria Steinem exposed the outrageous working conditions at Hugh Hefner's club. Playboy has changed—but have we?

The limits of a feminist politics of elite representation

The movement has struggled to make an impact in a deeply patriarchal country. But a new generation of feminists is also shaking up the status quo.