working mothers

The acclaimed reformer stoked the white, middle-class feminist movement and brought critical understanding to a “problem that had no name”

There’s no reason we can’t have universal childcare that’s wildly popular and provides high-quality care — in fact, during World War II, we did.

Perhaps the lesson to take from this year of living online is not about making better technology. It’s about recognizing technology’s limits.

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

The policy roots of today’s childcare crisis.

The remarkable stories of the nine other women in the Harvard Law class of ’59—as told by them, their families, and a SCOTUS justice who remembers them all.

Dorothy Thompson finds a room of her own.

In the period immediately following World War II, the femme fatale embodied a host of male anxieties about gender roles.

She faced sexism, split with a husband and found her voice teaching law in Houston.

Maybelle Carter witnessed the dawn of the recording era and helped create country music as one of the genre's biggest acts.

“The circulating medium… is abused like all good things, but without it you would not have had your Horace and Virgil.”

Apollo’s successful computing software was optimized to deal with unknown problems.

A strange and bittersweet ballad of kidnapping, stolen identity and unlikely stardom.

Tillmon and other National Welfare Rights Organization members defied mainstream ideas of feminism in their fight for welfare.

Rosie the Riveter wasn’t the only woman who pitched in on the homefront.

Amid all the stories about harassment and abuse, there’s been hardly any discussion about how we got here.

Tracing the connection between a ubiquitous paper product and the women’s liberation movement.

Bill Clinton’s 1996 welfare reform was supposed to move needy families off government handouts and onto a path out of poverty. How has it turned out?

Women in the workplace, from 19th century domestic workers to the Rosies of World War II to the labs of Silicon Valley.

Former Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust’s extraordinary memoir recalls painful memories for her--and me.