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Bitter rivals. Beloved friends. Survivors.
After 50 years, Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova understand each other like no one else can. When cancer came, they knew where to turn.
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Launch of New Young Women Leaders Program Honors Former Sec. of State Madeleine Albright
Honoring the foreign policy contributions and legacy of the United States’ first female Secretary of State and engaging a new generation of future young women leaders from around the world, today, the U.S. Department of State announced the launch of the Study of the U.S. Institutes’ Madeleine K. Albright Young Women Leaders Program.
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Rest in Power: Peg Yorkin, Feminist Trailblazer and Supporter of Women in Politics
Yorkin’s work was crucial to increasing the number of women serving in elected office and securing the abortion pill in the U.S.
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Melinda French Gates: Why I’m Focusing on Getting More Women In Public Office
Originally published by Melinda French Gates for TIME In 1976, Anna Belle Clement O’Brien, known as the first lady of Tennessee politics, ran for office on the slogan “A woman’s…
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What Research Tells Us We Can Do to Help More Women Get Elected Outside of Election Years
While there have been great strides in the representation of women in US politics in recent years – including the election of a woman as Vice President in 2020 – women account for less than 30 percent of legislators in Congress.
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Women’s Rights Group Files Brief Against South Carolina Abortion Ban
The Women’s Rights and Empowerment Network (WREN) filed an amicus brief with the South Carolina Supreme Court to support access to abortion in SC.
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Nine out of 10 People Are Biased against Women, Says ‘Alarming’ UN Report
Researchers ‘shocked’ at lack of progress, and entrenched social norms that curtail women’s chances in politics, business and work
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Moving Beyond the Good Ol’ Boys Club: Recent Trends in Women’s Representation in State Legislatures
Originally published by for Sabato’s Crystal Ball, University of Virginia Center for Politics KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — The percentage of women in state legislatures has increased in recent years.
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Neurodivergent Women Make Great Leaders — Why Don’t We Have More of Them?
Full article published by Jocelyn Solis-Moreira for SheKnows Women are all too familiar with the glass ceiling at work. But for those who are neurodivergent, the glass ceiling…
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Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund, the World’s Largest, to Reject All-Male Boards in Japanese Firms
Originally published in The Japan Times Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s biggest, will from now on vote against the nomination of all-male boards in Japanese companies, a senior fund official…