Women have always played a vital role in some of the most effective protests, marches and sit-ins throughout history. These MAKERS give their personal accounts of participating in some of the largest ...

Ever since Donald Trump became president, women have been having a moment. Or many, many moments — some complementary, some conflicting — depending on your perspective. Still, the women’s movement — ...

Merriam-Webster.com, of dictionary fame, has named “feminism” its word of the year for 2017. It is among the site’s most looked-up words because of a surge in feminist-oriented issues in the news, ...

How much feminist history did you learn at school? Hopefully you were introduced to Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Wollstonecraft, and you were probably drilled in the dates universal suffrage became ...

Last week, Women’s March announced the fifth action of their Ten Actions in 100 Days campaign — a direct response to the first 100 days of Donald Trump’s presidency, which began with the march in ...

We are witnessing the beginning of a third wave of feminism. Taking up the struggle of Victorian social reformers, suffragettes and the revolutionary feminists of the 1970s, feminists today are ...

While teaching Feminist Studies 101 at Stanford, where she's a founder of the feminist studies program, Freedman was asked to recommend one book that covered all the major issues in feminist ...

Until recent years, with the wake of the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, public consideration for the female struggle was regarded with the turn of a cheek or the draw of a blind. Though women ...

When we’re taught about the history of the feminist movement in the United States, it often highlights icons like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. But the first-wave feminism of the ...