Search results for

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich says that for Mormon women living in 19th century Utah, "plural marriages" were empowering in complicated ways.

The ban takes effect immediately. The ban applies to K-12 schools and community colleges as well as colleges and universities that are part of the NCAA or NAIA.

Women play an outsized role in the underground firearms marketplace. Often they handle illegal guns that are not for for their own use, but for men close to them. One Boston program is campaigning against gun violence, drawing connections between "crime guns" and domestic violence.

More women than men left the workforce during the pandemic, many because they had to care for children. A business council wants companies to take the lead in expanding child care and elder care.

In goggles and flipflops, they dive to harvest seaweed. It's risky work. They'll earn $3 to $6 a day. Now climate change and environmental rules make it harder to pursue the traditional profession.

The shootout had it all: Both teams missed crucial shots, and the goalkeepers made huge saves. Then a 20-year-old first-time Olympian sealed the game.

Menstruation is a taboo subject in China, but women are fighting the stigma with open discussion and campaigns for better access to period products.

Some concussion experts hope that a major meeting in Amsterdam could lead to a consensus statement that could improve research on how concussions impact women.

The Olympics can be rough on parents who are watching their kids compete. Like the Fischers, whose daughters, 19 and 17, are part of the women's water polo team that's one game away from gold.

Gerwig gives us the warm, homespun pleasures of Louisa May Alcott's beloved novel, but she also holds the well-worn text up to the light to consider some of its flaws and compromises.