As the 2022 midterm election season gets underway, speculation is already mounting that it’s going to be another banner year for female candidates. But overall, women today are just as unlikely as women were 20 years ago to express interest in running for office.

The Brookings Institute recently undertook a study to better understand how gender-based online violence takes place, examining three instances in which female journalists were attacked by prominent male media figures on either social media or broadcast media, and then tracking the ways in which online violence against them spiked.

The Biden administration’s focus on human rights as a foreign policy priority is a promising first step. But Biden must go beyond his campaign promises and prioritize the inclusion of adolescent girls in U.S. foreign policy decisionmaking.

The women’s suffrage movement always had a deep sense of its own history. In many ways, suffragists were our first women’s historians, none more so than Susan B. Anthony, who wrote the four-volume History of Woman Suffrage, with the final volume appearing in 1902.