women's rights

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

When Susan Struck fought being discharged for pregnancy from the US Air Force, it brought the right to choose into a different light.

Abortion and "The Scarlet Letter."

The right to abortion is an affirmation that women and girls have the right to control their own destiny.

Pauli Murray, the first Black woman to be ordained by the Episcopal Church, was an advocate for women’s rights and racial justice.

Uncovering the resort where rich women sought the elusive right to divorce

The pro-life movement needs to know that such culture wars result not in outright victory for one side but in reaction and compromise.

The centrist, compromising view of reproductive rights in Planned Parenthood v. Casey helped clear the path to overturn Roe v. Wade.

A lack of enforcement has blunted Title IX's transformative potential.

Contrary to contemporary claims, Susan B. Anthony and her peers rarely discussed abortion, which only emerged as a key political issue in the 1960s.

Even if her husband was a murderer, a woman in a bad marriage once had few options. Unless she fled to South Dakota.

The two may seem unconnected, but a centuries-long history of panic about White birth rates binds them together.

Claims that mothers lacking formula should just breastfeed repeats a centuries-old mistake.

Sir Matthew Hale, a 17th-century jurist, has been endlessly quoted by American judges and lawyers, with awful repercussions for women.

Nearing an antiabortion victory five decades in the making.

There is little mention of abortion in a four-thousand-word document crafted by fifty-five men in 1787. This seems to be a surprise to Samuel Alito.

To take away the right to privacy is to take a giant step backward in American history.

On a broiling summer afternoon in 1978, the Women's Movement held what was then known as the largest parade for feminism in history.

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.