In 2008, for only the second time in history, Planned Parenthood endorsed a presidential candidate in Barack Obama. Do you think this resulted in Congress’s efforts in 2011 to defund the organization? ... Read more
The case you took to the Supreme Court argues that because of the Defense of Marriage Act, you were unfairly taxed on the estate of your spouse, Thea Spyer, who died in 2009. What did you think when Bill ... Read more
Mary Thom, a chronicler of the feminist movement and former executive editor of Ms. Magazine, died Friday in a motorcycle accident in Yonkers. She was 68 and lived in Manhattan. The Women’s ... Read more
BERLIN — In a rare political setback for the world’s most powerful woman, Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday found herself forced to give in to a rebellious bloc in her own party who insisted that ... Read more
In November, Shannon Galpin was riding her single-speed mountain bike through the hills outside Kabul. It was her 11th visit to Afghanistan, and she had grown accustomed to the sight of camel caravans, ... Read more
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS — This column was supposed to explore my impressions of the Arab Spring after several months at Harvard as a Nieman Fellow. I had searched my memory when news of the Boston ... Read more
The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, said Tuesday that feminism was a “very dangerous” phenomenon offering an illusion of freedom to women who should focus on their ... Read more
Mariam Chamberlain, who played a pivotal yet little-known role in establishing women’s studies in the American college curriculum, and financing early research about the inequities women faced in the ... Read more
WASHINGTON — Melanne Verveer ought to know. She’s been at it for more than 15 years, pushing, pleading, traveling, carrying her message to the powerful and the weak. While pounding away at ... Read more
CAIRO — The sheer number of women sexually abused and gang raped in a single public square had become too big to ignore. Conservative Islamists in Egypt’s new political elite were outraged — ... Read more