Why the Equal Rights Amendment is still a work in progress 100 years later
The Equal Rights Amendment has met the requirements to be added to the Constitution, yet it remains unadopted.
By 19th News - March 16, 2023The Equal Rights Amendment has met the requirements to be added to the Constitution, yet it remains unadopted.
By 19th News - March 16, 2023Republicans are outraged that Judge Jackson is not a biologist.
By Josh Israel - March 23, 2022LGBTQ people are making progress in politics, but they still have a long way to go to achieve equitable representation.
By Casey Quinlan - July 29, 2021As the GOP claims to be ‘pro-life,’ nearly half of House Republicans voted against preventing pregnant workers from discrimination.
By Emily Singer - May 14, 2021The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled that nonbinary people can correct their gender marker in legal records.
By Casey Quinlan - July 10, 2020New analysis shows why more women than men are being impacted by coronavirus-related layoffs.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 17, 2020The amendment would bar discrimination on the basis of sex.
By Associated Press - January 11, 2020In other good news, the House passes a law to end discrimination in the tax code, and Maine takes a compassionate stance toward asylum-seekers.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 26, 2019Dozens of new women from around the country propelled Democrats to a House majority, and they have no intention of leaving any time soon.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 17, 2019The Republican Party is so sexist that GOP women wish their party would act more like Democrats.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 09, 2019Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell continues to block the Paycheck Fairness Act from coming up for a vote.
By Dan Desai Martin - June 17, 2019The state of Louisiana lets underage girls get married to adult men, and Republicans don’t seem inclined to change that.
By Lisa Needham - June 04, 2019Prosecutors in several large Georgia counties are vowing not to enforce a draconian new GOP law attacking women and doctors.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 21, 2019Republicans are desperate to find women and minority candidates to run in 2020.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 13, 2019Omarosa Manigault-Newman just formally accused the Trump campaign of paying women less than men.
By Dan Desai Martin - May 13, 2019Alabama’s House of Representatives just passed the most draconian anti-choice bill in the nation.
By Lisa Needham - May 03, 2019New proposed rules from Trump’s health department would let bigoted health care professionals discriminate against patients.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 25, 2019The hits keep on coming for Stephen Moore, Trump’s beleaguered pick for the Federal Reserve.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 22, 2019A Delaware Republican wants to make ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ a reality for American women.
By Emily Singer - April 16, 2019The House of Representatives capped off Women’s History Month by fighting to make sure women are paid the same for equal work.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 28, 2019A radical new abortion ban puts every pregnant woman in danger.
By Emily Crockett - March 26, 2019The Paycheck Fairness Act passed out of the House Education and Labor Committee without a single vote from the committee’s Republican members.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 26, 2019Republican women are sounding the alarm.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 17, 2018Trump and Trumpism seem to hold a particular appeal for men who secretly worry that they aren’t manly enough.
By Emily Crockett - November 29, 2018Democratic women made historic gains in Congress, but the Republican Party’s misogyny is making sure conservative women get left behind.
By Emily Crockett - November 08, 2018Kellyanne Conway insisted last week that a woman accusing Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault ‘should not be insulted.’ So much for that.
By Tommy Christopher - September 24, 2018Women disapprove of the job Trump is doing 62 percent to 28 percent. It’s not hard to see why.
By Emily Crockett - September 18, 2018A record number of women are running for office in this year’s election, but the Republican gender gap is probably about to get even worse.
By Emily Crockett - August 29, 2018Rashida Tlaib is set to become the first Muslim woman in Congress — and she’s part of a historic wave of diverse women candidates who are reshaping the Democratic Party.
By Emily Crockett - August 08, 2018U.S. officials threatened Ecuador over a breastfeeding resolution — and suddenly backed off once Russia stepped in.
By Emily Crockett - July 08, 2018