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Before #MeToo: The Long Struggle Against Sexual Harassment at Work

An interactive timeline recounts the movement to end sexual harassment.

by Matthew Green via The Lowdown on December 14, 2017

Before the Bus, Rosa Parks Was a Sexual Assault Investigator

The civil rights icon also played a key role in pursuing justice for the victims of sexual assault.

by Ryan Mattimore via HISTORY on December 8, 2017

Peggy Noonan’s Willful Blindness

Her latest column suggests that harassment is a product of the sexual revolution. She can’t possibly believe that.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on December 1, 2017

Anita Hill and Her 1991 Congressional Defenders to Joe Biden: You Were Part of the Problem

Hill revisits the infamous Clarence Thomas hearings with five of the congressional women who supported her.

by Annys Shin, Libby Casey via Washington Post on November 22, 2017

Roy Moore

Roy Moore and the Revolution to Come

Women are rising. Will they be able to create lasting change?

by Kimberly A. Hamlin via Made By History on November 19, 2017

Sexism and Male Voyeurism Have Been Intertwined Throughout Movie History

Harvey Weinstein and the history of the male cinematic gaze.

by David Thomson via Vox on October 19, 2017

The Long History of Black Women's Exclusion in Historic Marches in Washington

Despite their large role in civil rights activism, black women have frequently been excluded from prominent positions in protests.

by Ashley D. Farmer via Black Perspectives on October 4, 2017

Hugh Hefner Was Never The Star of Playboy

Perhaps the only true generalization to make about Hefner is that he is given too much credit for his role in American history.

by Josephine Livingstone via The New Republic on September 29, 2017

The Woman Who Helped Change How Hurricanes Are Named

For decades, only female names were used.

by Olivia B. Waxman via TIME on September 6, 2017

Trump's Argument Against Transgender Soldiers Was Used Against Gays, Women, and Blacks

A brief review of history.

by Philip Bump via Washington Post on July 26, 2017

New Age Activism: Maria W. Stewart and Black Lives Matter

Black women have always been equal partners in, if not central to, the tradition of Black protest and liberation movements.

by Westenley Alcenat via Black Perspectives on July 24, 2017

The Women and Girls of Telegraph Ave

The women of Telegraph Avenue whose stories remain untold.

by Madeline Appel, Sally Littlefield via The Berkeley Revolution on July 7, 2017

The Oral History of Lilith Fair, As Told By the Women Who Lived It

It was a time when promoters were telling women in music: “You can’t put two women on the same bill. People won’t come.”

by Melissa Maerz via Glamour on July 5, 2017

This Woman’s Name Appears on the Declaration of Independence. Why Don’t we Know Her Story?

Mary K. Goddard printed one of the most famous copies of our founding document.

by Petula Dvorak via Retropolis on July 3, 2017

Woodcuts and Witches

On the witch craze of early modern Europe, and how the concurrent rise of the mass-produced woodcut helped forge the archetype of the broom-riding crone.

by Jon Crabb via The Public Domain Review on May 4, 2017

The Anti-Capitalist Woman Who Created Monopoly—Before Others Cashed In

The beloved board game's long-hidden origin story debunks the myth of a male lone genius.

by Mary Pilon via What It Means to Be American on March 27, 2017

Why Women Couldn’t Wear Pants on the Senate Floor Until 1993

Two political pioneers staged a "Pantsuit Revolution."

by Jocelyn Sears via Mental Floss on March 22, 2017

Hillary Clinton Just Said It, But ‘The Future Is Female’ Began as a 1970s Lesbian Separatist Slogan

'The Future Is Female' was popularized in 2015, but the slogan was created 40 years earlier.

by Katie Mettler via Washington Post on February 8, 2017

When Dieting Was Only For Men

Today, we tend to assume dieting is for women, but in the 1860s, it was a masculine pursuit.

by Livia Gershon, Katharina Vester, William Banting via JSTOR Daily on January 2, 2017

Black Panther Women: The Unsung Activists Who Fed and Fought for Their Community

Judy Juanita on her novel 'Virgin Soul,' which incorporates her experiences as a Black Panther living in San Francisco.

by Lisa Hix, Judy Juanita via Collectors Weekly on December 2, 2016

America Has Always Seen Ambitious Women as Unhealthy

The long, sad history of accusing women who seek power and influence of ugliness and ill health.

by Rebecca Onion via Slate on September 16, 2016

Trump Syllabus 2.0

An introduction to the currents of American culture that led to "Trumpism.'

by Keisha N. Blain, N. D. B. Connolly via Public Books on June 28, 2016

How Women Changed American Politics

How feminism and antifeminism created Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on June 27, 2016

Up Against the Centerfold

What it was like to report on feminism for Playboy in 1969

by Susan Braudy via Jezebel on March 18, 2016

Rosie the Riveter "We Can Do It" poster.

Women at Work: A History

Women in the workplace, from 19th century domestic workers to the Rosies of World War II to the labs of Silicon Valley.

via BackStory on February 6, 2015

Jerri Cobb with a space capsule.

The Case for Female Astronauts: Reproducing Americans in the Final Frontier

Imagining a future that separates women from their biological identity seems so “drastic” as to be unimaginable—in 1962 and today.

by Lisa Ruth Rand via The Appendix on July 15, 2014

Smoking, Women’s Rights, and a Really Great Fake Bar

The lady smoking caper of 1908.

by Livius Drusus via The Appendix on February 7, 2014

Elizabeth Bisland’s Race Around the World

The American journalist propelled into the limelight when she went head-to-head with Nellie Bly on a race around the world.

by Matthew Goodman via The Public Domain Review on October 6, 2013

Image of a father and child walking on a beach.

Mythologizing Fatherhood

Ralph LaRossa explains the problems with mythologizing modern dads and the stereotypes present within views of fatherhood of the past.

by Ralph LaRossa via National Council On Family Relations on March 1, 2009

Supreme Court viewed through a window; Supreme Court justices' hands on their laps.

The Archaic Sex-Discrimination Case the Supreme Court Is Reviving

In Skrmetti, the Court turned to a decades-old decision once thought to be consigned to history.

by Leah Litman via The Atlantic on June 24, 2025

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