Women's History

Editor’s note: Launching Tuesday, Feb. 1, and culminating on March 10, the Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Project pays tribute to this feminist icon with a...

“When I think of Harriet Tubman, I think of the importance of freedom for all. I think of her as...

The story of the Ogoni women of Southern Nigeria makes the term “climate change” seem nonsensical. The climate didn’t simply...

From persistent pay gaps and housing insecurity to shamefully high mortality rates, Black women shoulder many of the same challenges...

Since its inception, the U.S. has treated caregiving as an innate, natural behavior that women need to express and ignored...

Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and...

Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation in politics, on boards, in sports and...

In the mid-1930s, Anna May Wong was Hollywood’s preeminent Asian American starlet. The U.S. is just beginning to recognize her...

Hard as it is for my granddaughters to believe, there was a time when a woman could be arrested for...

We must never forget Mills College’s legacy as a historically inclusive women’s college and a safe haven for immigrants, LGBTQ...