"It's critical that we are also teaching our children that running for office is just what moms do, that they should be civically engaged, that it's fun, and that it's easy," says Grechen Shirley creator of Vote Mama Foundation and the Vote Mama PAC, organizations dedicated to getting mothers, specifically Democrats, elected to public office.

Alana Mayo is 38 years old. She's Black, queer and a movie industry trailblazer who took over Orion Pictures in 2020. "The most [satisfying] part of my job is getting to make the kinds of movies I want to make inside of the Hollywood system."

The way Indians view the anti-hijab movement in Iran largely depends on religion and ideology. But the point is complicated: in both Iran and India, the hijab has been used as a tool of political activism against the government.

Disney revealed its first plus-sized heroine, a young ballerina named Bianca. But some fans aren't thrilled that her struggle with body image drives the plotline of a two-minute animated short.

"I would say the chips are still falling on the Weinstein case. Of course, we have what we now call the 'Weinstein Effect,' which has instituted a formal conversation around equality more generally," said Chris Yogerst, a film and media historian. "There are more efforts made to elevate female voices, especially in situations where equality is at stake."

The field of concussion research has come a long way since the early 2000s. But many questions still abound, especially when it comes to the differences between men and women. Some studies have suggested that women and girls might be more susceptible to concussions, and they may need longer to recover.

The film star had a trailblazing career, but also struggled to secure meaningful roles as an Asian American actress in Hollywood a century ago.

The sound of symphony orchestras appears to be growing more diverse across the country. The latest Orchestra Repertoire Report, a statistical overview published by advocacy group the Institute for Composer Diversity, shows a 638% increase in music by women at our symphony halls in the past six years.

October 11 marks the 10th anniversary of the International Day of the Girl. It's a day created by the United Nations to "highlight and address the needs and challenges girls face." It's also a day to assess where girls stand: what they want and what the world needs to do to give them their rights. But finding signs of progress for girls in 2022 is difficult.f progress for girls in 2022 is difficult.

This month marks one year since Megan Piphus Peace joined Sesame Street as its first Black female puppeteer. "I'm so glad I had the opportunity to be on Sesame Street and encourage other kids to dream as big as their imaginations will allow."

More than 2 million women who left the workforce when the pandemic struck. In the intervening months, economists, businesses and policymakers began to fear they'd never return, creating a worker shortage that could hobble the economic recovery. But nearly two-and-a-half years after the coronavirus first struck, the number of working-age women in the job market has finally returned to pre-pandemic levels.

Following the toppling of the Taliban after 9/11, Afghan women took up cycling for practical reasons, pleasure and for sport. Afghan women formed cycling teams. They mountain biked. There was a days-long biking race open to men and women in the relatively liberal province of Bamiyan. But all of that ended when the Taliban seized power last year.