Gender and Sexuality

Woman Money Debt

How the Student Debt Crisis Hurts Women How the Student Debt Crisis Hurts Women

With the payment moratorium for student loans expiring on May 1, millions of women will face the possibility of financial ruin. 

Mar 30, 2022 / StudentNation / Vivek Kakar and StudentNation

Clarence Thomas and his wife look into the distance

Interracial Marriage Under Attack: Thinking the Unthinkable Interracial Marriage Under Attack: Thinking the Unthinkable

As the conservative legal movement grows more emboldened, are there any protections that will remain unquestioned?

Mar 28, 2022 / Jane Dailey

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Long Pause Explained Racism and Sexism in America

Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Long Pause Explained Racism and Sexism in America Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Long Pause Explained Racism and Sexism in America

In that pregnant moment, everybody who was watching got to see how power and privilege work.

Mar 24, 2022 / Elie Mystal

WOmen Work in Every Field

WOmen Work in Every Field WOmen Work in Every Field

Street sign intervention, Rochester, N.Y.

Mar 24, 2022 / OppArt / Hilda Chacón

What Will It Take to Achieve Workplace Equality?

What Will It Take to Achieve Workplace Equality? What Will It Take to Achieve Workplace Equality?

A new history examines the gains won by women in white-collar work. But without mass action and solidarity, women’s economic equality will continue to be transitory and fragile.

Mar 22, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Bryce Covert

A man in a red jacket and scarf raises his hands above his head

South Korean Feminists Brace for a “Long, Hard Winter” Under a Right-Wing Leader South Korean Feminists Brace for a “Long, Hard Winter” Under a Right-Wing Leader

Yoon Suk-yeol’s election win was the culmination of a sexist backlash that swept the country.

Mar 18, 2022 / Hawon Jung

Truth, Light, and the Origins of the Fight Against Sexual Assault on College Campuses

Truth, Light, and the Origins of the Fight Against Sexual Assault on College Campuses Truth, Light, and the Origins of the Fight Against Sexual Assault on College Campuses

How a cohort of young feminists organized, agitated, and turned to Title IX to stop rape and sexual harassment on colleges 45 years ago.

Mar 15, 2022 / Feature / Sherry Boschert

Supreme Court abortion ban

Florida’s Abortion Ban Will Obliterate Access in the South Florida’s Abortion Ban Will Obliterate Access in the South

The new ban will create the strictest abortion laws in the history of the state, which has long served as crucial access point for people seeking abortions in the region.

Mar 14, 2022 / Anna Eskamani

Anti-Abortion Politicians Are Now Taking Inspiration From the Fugitive Slave Act

Anti-Abortion Politicians Are Now Taking Inspiration From the Fugitive Slave Act Anti-Abortion Politicians Are Now Taking Inspiration From the Fugitive Slave Act

In a nod to the bad old days, an amendment to a Missouri anti-abortion bill would make it a crime to help a pregnant Missourian get an abortion outside the state.

Mar 11, 2022 / Elie Mystal

An anti-abortion demonstrator clutches prayer beads and prays with other protesters in front of the EMW Womens Surgical Center on May 8, 2021, in Louisville, Ky.

The Overlooked Strategies of the Anti-Abortion Movement The Overlooked Strategies of the Anti-Abortion Movement

The movement and its ideological predecessors have spent centuries honing reproductive control tactics, from forced pregnancy to sterilization to criminalization.

Mar 11, 2022 / Michele Goodwin

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