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 ...

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 ...

Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday at a campaign rally that "whether the women like it or not," he will "protect" them, noting that his advisers had instructed him not to use the line, which ...

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 ...

There’s no single way for a woman to be a badass—she can kick ass like the Bride (Uma Thurman) in “Kill Bill,” solve a crime like Clarice (Jodie Foster) in “The Silence of the Lambs,” or lead a ...

American women dominated the summer Olympics, bringing home more than half of Team USA’s medals. The U.S. won 126 total medals, the most of any country. Of those, women were responsible for a whopping ...