A new report released by the National Women’s Defense League titled “Abuse of Power: Uncovering a Decade of Sexual Harassment in State Government” reveals that sexual harassment by sitting state lawmakers over the last decade is pervasive and ongoing. The report makes clear that sexual harassment by state lawmakers isn’t a single-party issue or an anomaly–it’s a systemic and underregulated abuse of power in every statehouse across the country.
Some Missouri lawmakers are renewing a call for the state to take an anti-abortion step that goes further than prominent anti-abortion groups want to go and that has not gained much traction in any state so far: a law that would allow homicide charges against women who obtain abortions.
History is in the making at the U.S. Naval Academy as Rear Adm. Yvette Davids is slated to become its first female leader since the institution's founding in 1845.
Originally published by NPR A woman has never been president. Hillary Clinton has come the closest, but that highest, hardest glass ceiling is still intact. Now Republican Nikki Haley wants to…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute reimagines the record of fashion, celebrating designers known but also those long, and wrongly, forgotten.
The billionaire philanthropist looks forward to a day when economies around the world are transformed by women unburdened by the necessities of free labor.
After receiving the prestigious John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, the group known as the ‘Sister Senators’ join a special edition of WIS News Primetime.
Originally published by Sarah Jones for New York Magazine At the Republican debate on Wednesday, Nikki Haley was a popular target. Candidates attacked her repeatedly, sensing that as her…
Originally published by Jana Kadah for the San Jose Spotlight The first woman has entered an already contested congressional race to replace Rep. Anna Eshoo in District 16. Palo Alto Councilmember…
