News
There are currently just 30 female presidents and prime ministers worldwide. Moldova and Barbados are the only two countries where women occupy both the positions of president and prime minister, while Bangladesh is the only nation where a woman has led for more years than a man over the last half century.
News
Meet three of the candidates who are part of a historic wave in 2022
News
2022 marks a record high for women running in gubernatorial and Senate races, but the total number of women running for the House of Representatives fell slightly from previous cycles, according to an analysis by the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.
News
A women’s Tour de France is back after 33 years — a sign of progress, contestants say, for a sport sorely in need of it.
News
At the Police Training Academy in Madison, Wis., there are 46 recruits in two groups for the class of 2022. Nikki Acker, 36, is one of nine female trainees in the group who are new to policing.
News
The board’s post-Roe conundrum. Years ago, if you had told a corporate director that access to abortion would become a governance issue, they might have laughed you out of the boardroom.
News
A newly unveiled proposal aimed at reforming the Electoral Count Act, a widely criticized 135-year-old law governing the process of casting and counting Electoral College votes, has garnered widespread support among election experts. The 1887…
News
Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., paid tribute to the Women's Suffrage Movement while wearing the symbolic suffragist color of white during her closing remarks Thursday at the Jan. 6 Select Committee Hearing. Sarah Matthews and Cassidy Hutchinson testify.
News
Women earn roughly 83 cents for every dollar men earn, and gender differences in negotiating a starting salary may be one of the largest contributors. In order to level the playing field, women have been encouraged to be more assertive.
News
As a lifelong Rhode Islander and top executive at CVS Health, Helena Foulkes was often puzzled, even irked, by how many hires at the Rhode Island-headquartered company chose to settle in neighboring Massachusetts over the Ocean State. Foulkes, who worked…