women's rights

What does a statue dedicated to mothers reveal about women’s rights?

Many early stories praise her work ethic and devotion. But with Mrs. Claus usually hitting the North Pole’s glass ceiling, some writers started to push back.

In 1920, my American-born great-grandmother, Ida Brown, married a Russian immigrant in New York City.

With many men 'missing' from the population in the aftermath of the 1918 flu, women stepped into public roles that hadn't previously been open to them.

In the 1920s, women's love of driving in auto-obsessed Los Angeles created traffic jams and a battle over women’s rightful place.

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.

The women who opposed their own enfranchisement in the Victorian era have little in common with the “Repeal the 19th” fringe of today.

On the inseparable histories of matrimony and disunion in the United States.

Four important court cases that have defined the landscape of women’s rights in the United States.

America’s feminists felt confident when the Equal Rights Amendment was put before Congress 100 years ago this week. For a century, it’s failed to be enacted.

In a recent Supreme Court oral argument about disarming domestic abusers, originalism itself was put to the test.

Labor radicals played a crucial role in organizing the struggles to topple gender hierarchies, and should serve as an inspiration for labor feminists today.

His works underpins the Dobbs decision. His legacy matters enormously to what's next for constitutional law.

She was a woman, but she was not the author of the speech attributed to her in popular lore.

The members of the Indiana Women’s Prison History Project scrutinize official records not only for what they reveal, but also for what they omit.

The Lakota advocate helped thousands of domestic abuse survivors, Native and non-Native alike.

The medication abortion decision by a federal judge in Texas focused on the rights of fetuses and the interests of doctors — not the rights of women.

Reversing the rising tide of femicide requires understanding its deep roots in the United States.

Religious conservatives see “anti-eugenic” laws as the most promising path to establish a federal ban on abortion.

Looking back at half a century of truth-telling and rebelling.