Women and Girls

Less than three weeks have passed since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, and already chaos reigns. Several states...

Dr. Joyce C. Lashof, who fought for health equity and broke barriers as the first woman to head a state...

Imagine that you are a young woman setting out on your adult life in the United States of America in...

Take June Carter Cash’s ambivalence toward her own onstage engagement — the less goth predecessor of Mr. White and Ms....

COPENHAGEN — On a morning in late June, 16 girls arrived at an urban courtyard for the timeless summer ritual...

For years, Britain’s Conservative Party was seen mainly as the realm of white men from elite backgrounds. But the contenders...

Ahmed Gaber for The New York TimesMs. Salgado, shown with Milton Ortega, 18, plans to participate in a youth summit...

The Las Vegas Raiders hired Sandra Douglass Morgan, the former chairwoman of the Nevada Gaming Control Board, as the team’s...

Even with blackened eyes, the women in Donna Ferrato’s photographs look defiant, not defeated. A photojournalist and feminist activist who...

It has long been a beguiling and mysterious treasure of the British Museum: a collection of sketches for jewelry and...