The Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, New York, preserves the site of the first Women's Rights ...

In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw – took control of the suffrage movement, leading the nation’s largest ...

This parade was their chance to showcase their beauty and appeal in what one historian would call a spectacle “as well ...

Authoritarian regimes consistently restrict women’s and girls’ rights more severely than rights-respecting democracies. But today’s rising authoritarian governments differ from 20th-century ...

One hundred years after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, I, an American woman, cast my first vote. The National Woman’s Party triumphed in obtaining women’s suffrage in August 1920, after ...

Sunday marks International Women’s Day, commemorating the battle for equality and the women’s rights movement.

Known as the “godmother of civil rights,” Dorothy Height fought not just for racial justice but for women’s equality.

Donald Trump’s first administration as US president attacked women’s rights across a broad range of issues, including undermining access to birth control, eroding efforts to end the pay gap between ...

Women across the nation and around the world will be taking to the streets on March 8, International Women’s Day. Born out of the women’s labor movements, the day is recognized as a focal point in the ...

Introduction: "Our Rights as Moral Beings" -- Prelude: Breaking Away from Slave Society -- Seeking a Voice: Garrisonian Abolitionist Women, 1831-1833 -- Women Claim the Right to Act: Angelina and ...