women's rights movement

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

A new biography of the pioneering doctors shows why “first” can be a tricky designation.

I learned, while writing about her, that her precision disguised her warmth.

It wasn’t a culminating moment, but the start of a new fight to secure voting rights for all Americans.

A century after the passage of the 19th Amendment, women with felony convictions remain disenfranchised.

Racism and sexism were bound together in the fight to vote – and Black women made it clear they would never cede the question of their voting rights to others.

One of the most powerful phrases in the Civil Rights Act is often viewed as a malicious joke that backfired. But its entrance into law was far more savvy.

Hispanic women and the fight for the 19th Amendment in New Mexico.

How the politics of American imperialism often intersected with calls for women's suffrage.

A new book chronicles the twists and turns of the 75-year-path to securing the vote for women.

In 1911, lesbians led the nation’s largest feminist organization. They promoted a diverse and inclusive women’s rights movement.

Officials altered a photo of the 2017 Women’s March to avoid “political controversy.”

Charles Postel on the temperance crusade that galvanized the American women's movement.

When birth control was still taboo, early socialists fought to make it accessible to working-class women.

Poppy Northcutt planned the vital flight trajectories that got astronauts home from their missions to the moon.

A new show at the National Portrait Gallery spotlights figures including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Lucretia Mott and Margaret Fuller

A century after the 19th Amendment, it’s worth remembering why suffragists fought so hard, and who was fighting against them.

A century after women won the right to vote, The Atlantic reflects on the grueling fight for suffrage—and what came after.

On the 1909 National American Woman Suffrage Association Convention in Seattle.

A brief history of the Massachusetts suffrage movement, and it's opposition, told through images of the time.