Apr 18 In Brooklyn, Clinton supporters carve out safe space in ‘Bernie bro’ country By Daniel Bush An unofficial Hillary Clinton campaign party in Brooklyn over the weekend gave Clinton supporters a rare opportunity to express support for the candidate in public without fear of being criticized by friends, family members and Bernie bros. Continue reading
Dec 04 All Swedish 11th graders to receive book on why everyone should be a feminist By Gretchen Frazee All 11th grade high school students in Sweden are being given Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s book “We Should All Be Feminists.”… Continue reading
Jun 15 How young is too young for a bikini? By Wendy Thomas Russell Should I let my 9-year-old daughter wear a bikini? On the one hand, I wanted to support my kid’s choice of clothing. I certainly didn’t want to make her self-conscious about her body, not when puberty was around the corner. Continue reading
Apr 17 Gwen’s Take: Dames and leadership By Gwen Ifill Here’s a quiz: when you think of Civil War heroes, can you name a single woman? Unlikely. But in a new book, journalist Coke Roberts proves that women were not invisible during the War Between the States. What these women… Continue reading
Nov 17 TIME apologizes for including ‘feminist’ in poll of words to ban By Corinne Segal TIME has apologized for including the word “feminist” in a poll asking "Which Word Should Be Banned in 2015?" Published on Nov 12, the poll drew widespread criticism online. Continue reading
May 18 Watch ‘Wikipedian’ editor took on website’s gender gap By Tracy Wholf Wikipedia has come under scrutiny over a lack of female representation and participation on the website. To combat this trend, Adrianne Wadewitz was a dedicated "Wikipedian," who wrote and edited content on Wikipedia as one of the nearly 75,000 active… Continue watching
Feb 26 Watch Gloria Steinem: Women Can’t ‘Have It All’ Until There’s Equality Gloria Steinem: Women Can't 'Have It All' Until There's Equality… Continue watching
Jun 17 Watch Saudi Women Take the Wheel to Protest Religious Ban on Driving Some Saudi Arabian women coordinated through social media to get behind the wheel Friday in protest of a religious ban on them driving legally. Judy Woodruff reports on the women who risked arrest to fight for new rights. Continue watching
Apr 20 Watch Civil Rights Luminary Dorothy Height Dies at 98 Gwen Ifill remembers civil rights activist Dr. Dorothy Height, who was a leader in both the African-American and women's rights movements. She died Tuesday at age 98. Continue watching
Aug 06 ‘When She Named Fire’ Examines Contemporary Women’s Poetry When the editors at Autumn House Press in Pittsburgh started looking around at various anthologies of contemporary poetry, they noticed most of the general collections still featured more male bards than female. Continue reading