The first Little Women “talkie”, starring Katherine Hepburn and directed by George Cukor, was enormously popular with critics and at the box office. A film truly of its moment—the Great ...

In the United States, women got the right to vote when the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920. In the United Kingdom, women did not have the same voting rights as men until 1928.

People often associate affirmative action with efforts to end discrimination for people of color. But scholars say the greatest beneficiaries of affirmative action policies are white women, from ...

Women campaigned for Prohibition—then many changed their minds. Flush with the accomplishment of winning the vote, some women focused their newfound political power on reversing the ...

A new Pew Research Center report finds that in opposite-sex marriages in the U.S., women's financial contributions have grown, but they're still doing a larger share of housework and caregiving.

Erika Marie Rivers created the Our Black Girls website to shine a light on Black girls and women who have gone missing or were murdered, a demographic that gets disproportionately less media coverage.

Women face age discrimination at work no matter how old they are, study finds 04:59. Women in the U.S. now constitute almost 6 in 10 college graduates and half the labor market, yet many continue ...

On Aug. 26, 1970, a full 50 years after the passage of the 19th Amendment granted women the right to vote, 50,000 feminists paraded down New York City’s Fifth Avenue with linked arms, blocking ...