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This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported...

While the gap is closing, there are still areas where women have little or no access by comparison with men.Nordic...

In addition to writing an acclaimed biography, she encouraged a generation of young writers, predominantly women of color, to pursue...

  “a safe, well-defined, acceptable unknown”……….—René Magritte In the arranging of morning, somethinggets lost, a comb or an idea, most...

Gospel Hymns No. 2, personal hymnal of Harriet Tubman. (Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and...

Rep. Nikema Williams (D-Ga.), who won the seat of late civil rights icon John Lewis in November 2020. Women make up...

A combination pack of mifepristone (L) and misoprostol tablets, two medicines used together for a medication abortion. Mifepristone interrupts the...

The events in Afghanistan since August prove yet again that in times of crisis, the rights of women are demoted,...

Hotlines designated for potential abusers could help address the roots of the domestic violence “shadow pandemic”—and make men step up....

A woman leads singing during a demonstration in Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt. The group demanded the overthrow of the...