Just after International Women’s Day, Uber rolled out a new nationwide option allowing women riders to request female drivers. The feature, called Women Preferences, lets women riders, women drivers ...

With all due respect, the past is the past. I love Roxanne Shante, Salt N’ Pepa, MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, Lil Kim, Foxy Brown, Da Brat, Eve, Lauryn Hill, and Missy Elliott. But the following list is ...

Women hold a rising share of high-paying occupations in the United States. They are also a growing share of managers and professionals, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of federal data. How ...

Over the past few years, amidst the reshuffling of male creative directors at many of fashion’s most important houses, a question has emerged again and again—just where are all the female designers?

Some of the most famous ships in history have sailed with female names on their hull. Queen Elizabeth. Mary Celeste. Lady Washington. Even now, seafarers still refer to vessels as "she." It doesn't ...

Democrats wanted to end the electability debate. After Vice President Kamala Harris’s defeat, a conversation that has frustrated and foiled two generations of female candidates rages on. By Lisa Lerer ...

In the early days of cinema, female characters were often portrayed as weak, subservient, and in need of saving. However, as the industry evolved, women began to be given more prominent and complex ...

In 2016, Hillary Clinton was a former secretary of state and senator running against the politically inexperienced real-estate tycoon Donald Trump. She lost. People would vote for a woman, the ...

It hasn’t always been this way. Before 1980, men consistently voted in higher proportions than women in presidential election years. But since then, women have been the more reliable voter. And if ...

Women are raised to believe that they are the more compassionate and caring sex. They are told from girlhood that their inborn nature is to be friendly, kind, generous, and hospitable, putting others ...

You’ve likely heard of the male gaze, the concept coined by British film theorist Laura Mulvey in her 1973 essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” In her writing, she notes that the “male gaze ...

When journalist Gia Lombardi (Shailene Woodley) announces her intention to pen a magnum opus on “sex in America,” the brief sounds overbroad — more about the author’s ambitions than any particular ...