In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw ...

The Herald-Leader is celebrating Lexington’s 250th birthday by revisiting key moments in the city’s vibrant history, ...

Thirty years after the landmark agreement on gender equality, the fight for reproductive rights remains critical in the ...

Somewhere along the way, the word “feminist” got a bad reputation. It has been twisted into something extreme, something ...

PHOENIX — The U.N.’s 193 member nations have made a commitment to accelerate action on more than a dozen fronts to achieve gender equality.

These important women have helped shape not only North Carolina, but also the country. Take a look at the inspiring women in ...

In 1917, when Theodora Sprecher Marsh showed up at House of Representatives as the representative from Santa Cruz County, she ...

Since 8 March, five women’s rights activists arrested, arbitrarily detained in solitary confinement and interrogated without ...

Voting rights for women, immigrants, Blacks, Native Americans and soldiers went through many changes beginning in the late 1800s, up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. Dr. Rachel ...

Mary Robinson’s impact doesn’t stop with helping women and campaigning for Irish LGBTQ+ rights. She was also involved in ...