women's rights movement

Women’s rights activism has shaped America for the better throughout our history, so why should colleges be banned from teaching it?

For as long as women have battled for equitable political representation in America, those battles have been defined by images.

An immersive story about the bold women who helped secure the right to vote is on view at the National Portrait Gallery.

On March 3, 1913, thousands of women gathered in Washington D.C. for the Women's Suffrage Parade -- the first mass protest for a woman's right to vote.

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

Women have long borrowed from men’s dress to claim the authority associated with it. It hasn’t always worked.

We date the expansion of voting rights to women in 1920, but the real story is a lot more complex.

Susan B. Anthony said that the bicycle did "more to emancipate women than anything else in the world."

From the beginning, International Women's Day has been an occasion to celebrate working women and fight capitalism.

How feminism and antifeminism created Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.

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

The history of the comic-book superhero's creation seven decades ago has been hidden away — until now.

The Civil Rights movement led the way, soon followed by anti-war protests and activism for women’s issues and gay rights.

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

Feminist. Preacher. Abolitionist. Civil rights pioneer. Now the full story of the American icon's life and faith is finally coming to light.

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.

Judge the author of the “Feminine Mystique” not by the gains she made, but by her experience.

History shows that activists can win statewide fights—but that the strategy might be unsustainable long-term.

Gloria Steinem on the making of America's first feminist publication.

Friedan was indispensable to second-wave feminism. And yet she was difficult to like.