women's rights movement

What does the academy have against the mother of second-wave feminism?

An iconic moment deeply shaped by Quaker beliefs on gender and equality.

Abortion rights in the US were won in the 1970s thanks to militant feminist groups. As those rights are repealed, the fight must return to the streets.

Gardner's public service did not end with her lifelong advocacy for women's equality, but continued even after her death.

Since the mid-nineteenth century, many labor regulations in the US have been crafted with the express purpose of strengthening the male-breadwinner family.

Suffragists coalesced in San Francisco to push for nationwide women' suffrage and send a petition to Congress for the vote.

The singer wasn't a feminist torchbearer, but her music amplified women's issues.

Shaina Taub’s new musical follows Alice Paul’s tireless quest to win American women the vote.

In her thirty-two years as the keeper of Lime Rock Lighthouse, Ida Lewis challenged gender roles and became a national hero.

A new book tells the scandalous secrets of a forgotten 19th-century tycoon, Miriam Follin Peacock Squier Leslie Wilde, also known as Mrs. Frank Leslie.

In the 1970s, NOW began to ask hard questions about the women who were no longer "homemakers", displaced from the only role they were thought to need.

Theresa Malkiel fled persecution in Russia and ended up in a New York sweatshop.

It’s a chance to spotlight the challenges for women, especially mothers, in the workplace.

The trailblazing Black labor leader and civil rights activist took her fight for equality from the packinghouse to the pulpit.

Two new books on the history of feminism emphasize global grassroots efforts and the influence of American women labor leaders on international agreements.

The history of the Crazy Woman Driver trope.

Mabel Ping-Hua Lee fought for the rights of women on two sides of the world.

The turmoil of the coronavirus pandemic could push the amendment across the finish line after a century of work.

We often think of the temperance movement as driven by white evangelicals set out to discipline Black Americans and immigrants. That history is wrong.

The vision of feminist labor organizing that guided the women’s white-collar organizing project 9to5 should still be our north star.