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The welfare rights movement of the 1960s and ’70s resisted invasive policies. Their animating vision: that society treat every mother and child with dignity.

Prohibition—and its newly created underground economy—changed the way women lived, worked, and socialized.

The complex story of wet nurses and their children in the time before the advent of baby formula.

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.

The U.S. managed to pay for a child care program during the most expensive war ever. What happened?

In the early twentieth century, teachers were prohibited from keeping their jobs after getting pregnant. Socialist feminists organized to change that.

She used her work to live an autonomous life in a time when women were often trapped by socially constructed gender roles and systematic oppression.

It’s time to adopt paid parental leave as a right.

Government-run childcare was crucial in enabling women’s employment during World War II, but today the program has largely been forgotten.

The story of the girl who grew up in Pasadena, took the bus, loved her mom and grandmother, and wrote herself into the world.

The story of Motley's legal career prior to Brown v. Board, and her crucial participation in it.

The problem no longer has no name, and yet we refuse to solve it.

Ash derided women’s liberation as “that foolishness” – but her success story is very feminist.

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

As liberation movements bloomed, they offered a vision of reproductive justice that was about equality, not just “choice.”

While our perceptions of grandparents have remained static, we've asked them to do a lot more.

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

The daring women whose transatlantic journeys challenged gender roles.

The Biden administration’s proposed “child allowances” draw on the feminist thought of Crystal Eastman, who advocated “motherhood endowments” 100 years ago.

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