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At the Women’s Plaza of Honor of the U of A, 10 women are standing together for the first official photo of their media outlet team. They gathered around its two founders.  Caitlin Schmidt and Susan Barnett are seasoned journalists who saw an opportunity to build something new after their own disillusionment with the declining...

New Census Bureau data shows women are making 82.7 cents per every dollar a man makes. The gap is even wider for most women of color.

Marginalised communities have long fought to preserve their own stories and provide an alternative to the Eurocentric, colonial archive

Kamala Harris news and opinion

Women reported fewer promotions and fewer salary increases amid a tightening economy and slashed budgets.

Special Operations vet Jeff Tiegs runs Skull Games, where evangelical Christians use internet surveillance to locate and bust sex workers.

The latest vote comes a century after the Equal Rights Amendment was first introduced in Congress.

A Bay Ridge activist on anti-Muslim sentiment, the death of Eric Garner, and the fight to change Brooklyn for the better. Interview by John Surico

GOP Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah joined every Democrat in voting for her confirmation to the court.

As a Black woman who has spent thousands of hours as a career coach for women of color, I’m not surprised to see her unfair treatment.

We need to invest in building communities for those who have been furthest from opportunity, writes Highland Project founder Gabrielle Wyatt.

The vice presidential nominee inherits their legacy but also the stubborn resistance to their efforts.

A group of lawmakers in Elizabeth, N.J., authorized plans to build a monument to transgender civil rights activist Marsha P. Johnson. According to Union County officials, this would make Johnson the first transgender person in the country to be honored with a monument.

Ninety-three percent of child care workers are women, and 45 percent are Black, Asian or Latino, while half of child care businesses are minority-owned.

“You wouldn’t like this job,” she says she was told. Facebook is only 3.9 percent Black and is facing an EEOC investigation.

Black women lead four of America's most prominent cities at a historic time for race relations. Activists question whether they're meeting the moment.

Kentucky's Democratic governor has vetoed a sweeping Republican measure aimed at regulating the lives of transgender youths. Gov. Andy Beshear said in his veto message Friday that the bill would increase youth suicides.

After the women’s rights champion died in 2020, the US Supreme Court saw its conservative majority expand further.

Sometimes lateraling is your best option.

As back to school season arrives, here's what to know about how far schools can and can't go when enforcing dress codes on students

Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden's first Supreme Court pick, has been sworn in as the 116th justice. She is the first Black woman to serve on the nation's high court.

The first and second female justices on the U.S. Supreme Court will have statues erected in their honor at the U.S. Capitol as a result of a bill signed into law last week by President Joe Biden.

The signings come one day before Transgender Day of Visibility.

A law that prevents transgender girls from participating in girls' sports was blocked by lower court.

These leaders had to break both gender and racial barriers as they made history.

An analysis of nearly 1 million dissertations over a 40-year period reveals a bias against "feminine" research. The bias limits careers.

The women’s suffrage movement was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote for women in the United States. It took activists and reformers nearly 100

These leaders — Black, Latina, Asian, Arab, Native American — in varied fields, broke both gender and racial barriers as they made … Continue reading Women’s History Month: Women of color whose names you should know →

From a plea to a founding father, to the suffragists to Title IX, to the first female political figures, women have blazed a steady trail towards equality in the United States.