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07/29/2021

The Dean at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton business school says Covid-19 “wreaked havoc” on women’s careers.

01/19/2021

More women of color are serving in the 117th Congress than ever before.

10/21/2020

Women politicians are more responsive than men when people come to them seeking health care and economic support, our newly published study on gender and government responsiveness reveals. Our research, conducted in 2017, was published in the Journal of Experimental Political Science in August.

08/18/2020

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/17/us/suffrage-movement-photos-history.html

How did American women win the right to vote? These images help bring their decades-long movement into focus.

04/13/2020

From Iceland to Taiwan and from Germany to New Zealand, women are stepping up to show the world how to manage a messy patch for our human family.

02/18/2020

Dainty turn-of-the-century teacups held a powerful message: Women are equal to men. “The women’s suffrage movement used teas a lot to raise money and to ...

02/18/2020

Former British Prime Minister Theresa May says she vowed early on in her political career never to think that being a woman held her back

02/02/2020

"Beyond your public policy choices—stripping away women's access to healthcare, undermining protections for survivors of sexual assault, reversing equal pay efforts and more—your words demonstrate a contempt for women who dare to do their jobs or speak truth to power which reflects poorly on you," the lawmakers write."

"It is as if you relish the opportunity to publicly humiliate any woman who fights back, speaks up, or takes up space."

02/02/2020

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01/31/2020

Even before women received the constitutional right to vote, they were serving in elected office. In the early 20th century, candidates like Marian Towne in Ore…

01/22/2020

“Female-dominated jobs in the working class are just not comparable to men’s jobs,” said Janette Dill, a sociologist at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. “So yes, it’s great to see women participating at such a high level in the labor market, but it also really means continuing challenges for working-class families, because these jobs just don’t replace manufacturing jobs in terms of job quality and wages."

Jobs traditionally viewed as female still don’t pay well, and still don’t appeal to men. Fixing one of these things would fix the other.

01/16/2020

This list highlights one woman every year in the last 70 years who made history in civil rights, politics, business, sports, science and elsewhere.