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We Need More Women in Office—Even if They’re Terrible
Jill Filipovic, Slate Magazine
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, and Nancy Mace aren’t exactly feminist firebrands, but they didn’t need to be to defy Trump.
Nov 22, 2025, 10:45 AM
Nearly one-third of women worldwide faced partner or sexual violence: WHO
Al Jazeera Staff, Al Jazeera English
Despite stark findings, World Health Organization says violence against women and girls is 'a deeply neglected crisis'.
Nov 19, 2025, 7:05 PM
How a small Chicago nonprofit is resisting Trump's war on DEI
Andrea Hsu, NPR
Since 1981, Chicago Women in Trades has worked to promote equity by getting more women into the construction trades. Now the nonprofit faces a different challenge: Trump's efforts to erase DEI.
Nov 19, 2025, 10:00 AM
How women over 30 are rewriting the single mom narrative in America
Pallavi Gogoi, NPR
Forty percent of babies in the U.S. are born to unmarried mothers. Increasingly, those moms are over 30, at a time when teen pregnancy has fallen off a cliff and births are declining for younger women.
Nov 17, 2025, 10:00 AM
The forgotten women of quantum physics
Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, New Scientist
Physics has a reputation for being dominated by men, especially a century ago, as quantum physics was just being invented – but there have been so many women who helped shaped the field since its inception
Nov 14, 2025, 10:00 AM
More Young Women Than Ever Want to GTFO of the U.S.
Danielle Han, Jezebel
Where are we going, friends? I’ll pack my bags.
Nov 13, 2025, 4:06 PM
Conservative Woman Who Helped Gut Women’s Healthcare Declares Conservative Law Students the Real Feminists
Lauren Tousignant, Jezebel
“In truth, being a conservative woman in law school, particularly, takes a lot of courage and independence, and in many ways shows more feminism…” Justice Amy Coney Barrett said this week. Asteroid?
Nov 8, 2025, 11:17 AM
Trump Bulldozes Away a Century's Worth of Women’s Contributions to the White House
Danielle Han, Jezebel
“It’s sort of like, my worst fears realized, to be frank," a women's studies scholar at Ohio University told Jezebel of the East Wing demolition.
Oct 24, 2025, 4:51 PM
MAGA Christians Are Demanding Wives Stay Home — But There's 1 Big Problem
Brittany Wong, Buzzfeed
“Erika Kirk has 3 university degrees, she’s a businesswoman and ceo, she got married in her 30s (to a man 5 years younger than her), had kids in her mid 30s,...
Oct 11, 2025, 6:14 PM
8 TV And Movie Female Presidents To Distract You From Reality
Jamie Lerner, Thoughtcatalog.com
These women killed it as the leaders of the free world.
Aug 25, 2025, 6:00 PM
Abortion Pills That Give You Superpowers? Women’s Healthcare Is Now the Stuff of Fantasy Films
Alison Foreman, IndieWire
IndieWire spoke with three filmmakers about personal storytelling through genre, from a folk monster hungry for breast milk ("Feed") to vaginoplasty administered by a witch ("The Dysphoria") to a vigilante service worker stuck waiting tables mid-abortion ("Th…
Aug 15, 2025, 1:00 PM
Texas DA Who Charged Woman With Murder for Abortion Allegedly Paid for His Mistress’s Abortion
Susan Rinkunas, Jezebel
“Why would it be something you wouldn't consider criminal as to your own personal decision with your partner, but, as to Lizelle, that personal decision is now homicide?” the ACLU's Lauren Johnson told Jezebel.
Aug 14, 2025, 2:05 PM
We Asked Pete Hegseth if Women Should Have the Right to Vote. The Answer Was Unsettling.
Molly Olmstead, Slate Magazine
We really, really didn't expect this.
Aug 12, 2025, 4:41 PM
Colorado Says Yes To Junk Science
Danielle Han, Jezebel
Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.
Aug 5, 2025, 4:56 PM
Tapping The Ancient Wisdom Of Hospitality To Foster Inclusivity
Joe Holt, Contributor, Joe Holt, Contributor https://www.forbes.com/sites/josephholt/, Forbes
With DEI programs under attack, leaders can practice the virtue of hospitality as a safe and effective tool for promoting inclusivity.
Jul 27, 2025, 4:43 PM
She's trying to open a birth center near a maternity desert. It's not easy
Katia Riddle, NPR
When Katie Chubb was pregnant she wanted to have her baby at a birth center, but there was no local option. Now she's trying to open one herself. She has community support, but not from the hospitals.
Jul 27, 2025, 11:00 AM
UPenn updates swimming records to settle with feds on transgender athletes case
The Associated Press, NPR
The U.S. Education Department and Penn announced the voluntary agreement of the high-profile case that focused on Lia Thomas, who last competed for the Ivy League school in 2022.
Jul 2, 2025, 7:18 AM
US university bars trans athletes, erases records under pressure from Trump
John Power, Al Jazeera English
University of Pennsylvania removes times set by trans swimmer as part of resolution to civil rights investigation.
Jul 2, 2025, 3:03 AM
Charlize Theron Fears ‘Millions of People…Are Going to Die’ Because of Foreign Aid Cuts
Marcmalkin, Variety
Charlize Theron delivered fired up remarks Saturday about immigration, LGBTQ and women’s rights and the devastating cuts to foreign aid. “The world feels like it’s burning because it is,” the Oscar winner said at the fifth annual Charlize Theron Africa Outrea…
Jun 29, 2025, 5:58 AM
Abortion Bans May Be Making Second-Trimester Abortions More Likely
Chantelle Lee, Time
A new study found that the fraction of people who got an abortion in their second trimester doubled in states that enforced near-total bans.
Jun 26, 2025, 8:01 PM
We have to protect the female category - IOC's Coventry
Dan Roan, BBC News
Kirsty Coventry, the new president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), says its members have shown "overwhelming support" to protecting the female category in sport.
Jun 26, 2025, 4:45 PM
Supreme Court Greenlights Republican Crusade to Defund Planned Parenthood
Tessa Suart, Rolling Stone
The Supreme Court’s conservatives issued their latest attack on reproductive health care in “Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic.”
Jun 26, 2025, 3:44 PM
Supreme Court Just Allowed States to 'Defund' Planned Parenthood
Susan Rinkunas, Jezebel
The ruling allows states to kick any healthcare provider out of Medicaid just because they offer abortions, and opens the door to banning clinics for providing birth control and gender affirming care.
Jun 26, 2025, 2:56 PM
3 Years After 'Dobbs,' Abortion Bans Have Not Stopped People From Needing and Getting Abortions
Lauren Tousignant, Jezebel
The Supreme Court, the GOP, and religious anti-abortion fanatics have made the country more dangerous and more deadly for women, yet the number of abortions in the U.S. increased in 2024.
Jun 24, 2025, 11:50 AM