The decade opened amid a pandemic, economic upheaval and a reckoning over democracy itself. In early 2020, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, seemingly bringing a n...

Renee Bracey Sherman, Koritha Mitchell, and Carmen Rios respond to Soraya Chemaly’s new book All We Want Is Everything, with a response from Chemaly!

In a new bonus episode of <em>Looking Back, Moving Forward</em>, <em>Ms.</em> executive editor Kathy Spillar, consulting editor Carmen Rios, <em>Ms.</em> Committee of Scholars co-chair Janell Jobson, ...

I'm aware I'm about ten years late, but I'm happy to be at the party.

A new documentary short chronicles Little's groundbreaking case—and her historic victory as the first U.S. woman acquitted for using deadly force to resist sexual assault.

"It is also being claimed that we have a historic peace deal. That is absolutely fictitious.”

Omisade Burney-Scott shares how Indigenous, queer and Black menopause stories can fuel justice, healing and inclusion at Iranti Ẹ̀jẹ̀.

‘You’re Either Going to Be on the Right Side of History, or on the Sidelines Watching Us Make History’: ERA Champion Pat Spearman

‘Who Could Be Opposed to This?’: Why the ERA Is Kathy Spillar’s ‘North Star’ in the Fight for Gender Equality

In the final episode of the <em>Ms.</em> Studios podcast <em>Looking Back, Moving Forward</em>, ERA Project director Ting Ting Cheng breaks down the power of state Equal Rights Amendments—and how acti...

‘It Was The Most Important Thing I Could Do’: Ellie Smeal Reflects on a Lifetime of ERA Activism—And What Comes Next

‘Who Could Be Opposed to This?’: Why the ERA Is Kathy Spillar’s ‘North Star’ in the Fight for Gender Equality

Turning Point USA Co-Founder Charlie Kirk speaks during a campaign rally, Oct.

‘It Was The Most Important Thing I Could Do’: Ellie Smeal Reflects on a Lifetime of ERA Activism—And What Comes Next

‘I’m Not Going to Tolerate Being Treated as a Second-Class Citizen’: Carol Moseley Braun Isn’t Giving Up on the Fight for Constitutional Equality

‘I’m Not Going to Tolerate Being Treated as a Second-Class Citizen’: Carol Moseley Braun Isn’t Giving Up on the Fight for Constitutional Equality

Meet the Voices Pat Spearman, cleric, veteran and former Nevada state Senator who led efforts to ratify the federal ERA in 2016 and add an ERA to the state's constitution. Follow her on Instagram, Fac...

What Feminist Scholar Jane Caputi Believes History Can Teach Us About Taking on Male Supremacy—and Building a Future Without Femicide

The former senior editor and writer for Ms. coordinated what became the first-ever national survey of campus sexual violence. In the latest episode of Looking Back, Moving Forward, Sweet assesses what...

Victoria Nourse Helped Write the Violence Against Women Act. She Knows Policy Change Matters in the Struggle to End Gender-Based Violence.

“When and Where Do We Get to This Place Called ‘Fair?’” What Political Scientist & Survivor Vanessa Tyson Wants a Feminist Future to Look Like

Victoria Nourse Helped Write the Violence Against Women Act. She Knows Policy Change Matters in the Struggle to End Gender-Based Violence.

'Misogyny Is a System': Feminist Scholar Julie Suk Wants to Reimagine U.S. Institutions — and Build a Democracy of Equality

‘We Have to Be Relentless’: Why #MeToo Champion Debra Katz is Confident That ‘There Will Be Wins’ for Survivors in the Days Ahead

In the fourth episode of Looking Back, Moving Forward, advocates and experts name the sociopolitical factors that fuel gender-based violence, and outline what it will take—in the courts, legislatures ...

Meet the Voices Ellen Sweet, a former senior editor and writer for Ms. who coordinated the magazine's historic nationwide study of campus date rape in the 1980s. Read her work in Ms. Jane Caputi, Prof...

‘Care Is Baked Into a Healthy, Functioning Economy’: Economists Lenore Palladino and Rakeen Mabud on How to Advance Economic Justice

‘Care Is Baked Into a Healthy, Functioning Economy’: Economists Lenore Palladino and Rakeen Mabud on How to Advance Economic Justice

‘In Whose Interests Are We Fighting?’ Historian Premilla Nadasen Learned About Economic Justice from the Domestic Workers’ Rights Movement

‘If You’re Not Centering the People Who Are Most Impacted, Your Policy Solution Will Fall Apart’: Gaylynn Burroughs on Economic Justice for Women

‘Poverty Is a Systemic Failing, Not Individual’: Aisha Nyandoro's Movement to Liberate Financial Capital and Support Black Moms’ Economic Freedom