From schedulers to socialites, they helped keep the late financier’s sex trafficking scheme operating, or helped rehabilitate him after he faced jail time. Now some say they’re victims.

The expectation that law students complete multiple clerkships before making it to the Supreme Court is just another hurdle for women and those that take on law school debt.

Republicans from former President Donald Trump on down are couching their opposition to expanding transgender rights as a defense of girls' and women's sports.

The European Commission is planning to roll out a proposal to enforce rules on the gender pay gap, allowing employees to seek pay information from their employers; banning businesses from asking candidates about salary history; and requiring companies to inform interviewees of salary expectations.

Kamala Harris made history last week, but Black women in the House haven't held elected positions in leadership in more than four decades. The last time a Black woman was elected to sit at her party’s leadership table in the House was 44 years ago, and it was Rep. Shirley Chisholm of New York.

When the 117th Congress is sworn in on Sunday, it will have more women—and more women of color—than any Congress in history. There will be the most-ever Native American women serving, as well as the first group of Korean-born congresswomen and even the first Iranian American member of any gender. And those records are, in no small part, because of the success of Republican women.

Ms. Granholm is widely credited with steering her state through a recession and working with the Obama administration on a bailout of the automobile industry.

Lack of media frenzy over Petra de Sutter’s gender identity is a powerful sign of progress.

Most political analysts don’t turn first to “masculinity” when they think about how we got here. But to social psychologist Peter Glick, that’s a mistake: To understand the shape of American politics, we need to understand the social psychology behind it.

Evictions in Arkansas can snowball from criminal charges to arrests to jail time because of a 119-year-old law that mostly impacts female, Black and low-income renters. Even prosecutors have called it unconstitutional.

Fundraising has historically been a major barrier for Republican women. One reason the GOP has been able to achieve more success with recruitment of female candidates is the growth of outside spending groups that are solely dedicated to electing women, including Elevate PAC, Winning for Women and VIEW PAC.

Black women are making history and not just at the presidential level this year. With the last state primaries before November 3rd held last week, the Center for American Women and Politics reports that a record number of Black women will also be major-party nominees for the House of Representatives this year.