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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.

“All across the West, women were voting by the millions before 1920," one historian says, adding a caveat: They typically had to be white, too.

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In commemorating the centennial of the 19th Amendment, with which women first won the right to vote, the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission came together with one simple but ambitious goal: To educate Americans about women’s often-ignored U.S. history.

Girl power.

In 1977, women told the U.S. government what they wanted. In 2017, they're making the exact same demands.

If you have no idea which wave of feminism we’re in right now, read this.

Racism and sexism were bound together in the fight to vote – and Black women made it clear they would never cede the question of their voting rights to others

With millions of people disenfranchised along racist lines, this is no time for uncomplicated commemoration.

A list of the top 100 women of history on the web, arranged in the sequence of their popularity in web searches.

Not every woman whose head scrapes the glass ceiling responds by burning her bra. These five feminist movements highlight proactive efforts to change gender stereotypes and claim equality for women in the boardroom, bedroom and voting booth.

A timeline of women's rights from 1769 to the fall of Roe v. Wade

Explore the many ways in which Latina women have broken gender and cultural barriers.

Here are some of the names of Asian-American women that students in the United States may not learn about in school.

Women-led demonstrations have altered history, from the French Revolution to the present day

Feminism, a belief in the political, economic and cultural equality of women, has roots in the earliest eras of human civilization.