The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute reimagines the record of fashion, celebrating designers known but also those long, and wrongly, forgotten.
Category: Women’s Rights
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Sandra Elkin, Creator of a Pioneering Feminist Talk Show, Dies at 85
“Woman,” which she hosted, brought frank talk about issues like birth control, pay inequality and homosexuality into millions of homes in the 1970s.
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How Artists Are Breaking the Taboos Around Depicting Birth
For centuries, labor was deemed too messy a subject for gallery walls. A growing canon of feminist work is challenging that perception.
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Jezebel to Be Resurrected by Paste Magazine
The pioneering feminist website is being sold to Paste by G/O Media, which had shut down the site this month.
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Chapter 2: Chasing Dreams at a Steep Cost
She escaped an abusive betrothal, but her family’s reputation was suffering for it.
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Women Could Fill Truck Driver Jobs. Companies Won’t Let Them.
Three women filed a discrimination complaint against a trucking company over its same-sex training policy, which they say prevented them from being hired.
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Nancy Van de Vate, Composer and Advocate for Women in Music, Dies at 92
An American who settled in Vienna, she had a prolific career in contemporary classical music and broke gender barriers in her field.
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They Shot at Her. They Forced Her From Her Home. She Won’t Stop Fighting for Girls.
Khalida Popal helped save Afghan female soccer players from the Taliban. Now she is demanding that world soccer officials let them play for their country again.
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They Shot at Her. They Forced Her From Her Home. She Won’t Stop Fighting for Girls.
Khalida Popal helped save Afghan female soccer players from the Taliban. Now she is demanding that world soccer officials let them play for their country again.
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Are We Finally Ready to Take Tammy Wynette Seriously?
The unsung godmother of so-called “sad girl” music — and one of pop’s most wrenching chroniclers of feminized pain — has long been misunderstood.
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In China, More Single Female Home Buyers, Resisting Sexist Norms
The housing market in China is in turmoil. But more and more women, facing a less equal society, are buying their own homes in search of security.
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Former San Jose State Trainer Pleads Guilty to Groping Athletes
Scott Shaw admitted on Tuesday that he inappropriately touched the breasts and buttocks of four female athletes from 2017 to 2020, federal prosecutors said.