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Abortion-rights advocates rallied at the Capitol Monday on women's health issues. They argued against bills they fear could infringe on abortion rights…

NPR's Ari Shapiro interviews Asra Nomani, co-founder of the Muslim Reform Movement and author of Standing Alone: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam, about the op-ed she co-wrote with Hala Arafa in the Washington Post about why, as Muslim women, they are asking other Muslim women to not wear the hijab.

More than 1,400 Southern Baptist women have signed a letter to their church leaders denouncing "sinful" and "unbliblical" comments about women and divorce by one of their most prominent leaders.

Data from exit polling show that with the exception of New Hampshire, Vermont and Wisconsin, Hillary Clinton has won women everywhere. Female votes could be crucial in a match-up with Donald Trump.

In her new book Women of Will, Tina Packer traces Shakespeare's maturation — and, she argues, the corresponding transformation of his female characters from caricatures to fully-realized humans.

Betty Friedan's 1963 book The Feminine Mystique helped drive the modern women's movement. The author and activist died Saturday of congestive heart failure. She was 85. Harvard historian Nancy Cott discusses Friedan's legacy with Debbie Elliott.

Saturday Afghanistan held an election to replace President Hamid Karzai and saw strong turnout. Women were expected to play a key role, and that excites…

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with USA Today sports columnist Christine Brennan about a gender discrimination lawsuit the U.S. women's soccer team has filed against U.S. Soccer.

The 19th is a new nonprofit news organization that focuses on women's issues. NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with co-founder Emily Ramshaw.

Since 1980, the percentage of women at the U.S. Military Academy has stayed largely the same, leading some to conclude that the school has set an artificial cap on the number of female cadets it accepts. Now, West Point has been told it must raise those numbers to meet the demand for more female leaders.