A successful legislative push embraced by Gov. JB Pritzker means the state’s male-dominated construction industry soon will have to make new job-site accommodations to employees who lactate and menstr...

Host Tanya McRae explores the issues

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off,” said Steinem, who founded Ms. magazine and pushed for equality.

As has become a biennial summer tradition in Sacramento, various affinity caucuses for state lawmakers have elected incoming chairs for the next two-year legislative session.

The U.S. Department of Justice says California prison officials failed to protect women from sexual abuse and harassment by staff, finding systemic problems at two of the state’s women’…

I don’t have to tell anyone this is an election year. Between last November’s special election, the June primary and the impending mid-terms this fall, the winds of change – or not, depending on how a...

In March 2026, the union representing professional women's basketball players reached a historic collective bargaining agreement with the WNBA, securing salary increases of nearly 400 percent for its ...

As Women’s History Month is quietly dismantled under Trump's attacks on history and DEI, a collective feminist refusal is taking shape.

The WNBA players union says that the league generated enough revenue to trigger revenue sharing.

American Hilary Knight has tirelessly advocated for the growth of women's hockey as one of the sport's biggest stars, and Caroline Harvey is ready to follow in her footsteps.

Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest serving National Park Service ranger in the country, has died at 104 years old.

While menopausal hormone therapy increased cardiovascular disease risk in postmenopausal women older than 70 years with vasomotor symptoms, hormone therapy did not significantly affect cardiovascular ...

Stereotypes that centre men’s worth in their work are strangling sensible debate, and letting down women too, says author Finn Mackay

Violence against women remains one of the world’s most persistent and under-addressed human rights crises, with very little progress in two decades, according to a landmark report released today by th...

After narrowing for decades, the gender wage gap is widening again. Organizational and public policies help explain why.

The ACLU and other groups are pressing for ICE to identify and release all pregnant women in custody and to stop detaining anyone known to be pregnant, postpartum or nursing.

Famine was declared in Gaza City on 22 August 2025 by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) analysis – a first for the Middle East region. Mothers cannot feed their newborns; girls g...

Gates spoke to Robin Roberts on "Good Morning America" about the funding.

A bill that would increase insurance coverage for menopause treatments is at the center of a legislative push.

The issue of potty parity may seem comic, but its impact runs deeper than uncomfortably full bladders, said Kathryn Anthony, professor emerita at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Schoo...

From "wandering wombs" to modern biases, the troubling politics of hysterectomies