Throughout history, women have always written—thoughts, letters, poems, stories—but their work is often excluded from the canon or forgotten altogether. A new EU project is hoping to change that, by providing Spanish academic Carme Font Paz, of Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, with a €1.5 million ($1.7 million) research grant. Over the next five years, Font will work with a small team to uncover neglected European female writers from between 1500 to 1780.

Although the song is not overly about date rape, by modern standards, it’s way too lighthearted about sexual coercion. And some have argued the song, despite superficial appearances, is actually an anthem to women’s empowerment.

Those shoes are now part of an exhibition at the Cornell Costume and Textile Collection in New York titled “Women Empowered: Fashions from the Frontline.” The congresswoman’s worn-out kicks will sit alongside some of Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s iconic collars, a skirt suit worn by the first female US attorney general Janet Reno, gowns and accessories worn by suffragettes, and more.

Perhaps it’s no surprise that women are at the helms of the companies sinking Victoria’s Secret. Unlike the boys’ club that led the intimates industry for decades, women tend to have breasts, and want bras that really fit. These new brands are finding success by satisfying a demand Victoria Secret's has failed to meet, for design that prioritizes fit and comfort.

Witchcraft has for centuries been associated in the popular imagination with beauty and sexuality, but it hasn’t always been pretty: The term “witch,” has been used as a multipurpose misogynist slur, while witches or those suspected of witchcraft have been persecuted—sometimes violently and sexually—across history and cultures.

The “escape the corset” movement didn’t come out of nowhere. Instead, it’s just one part of a feminist revolution that has swept the country in the wake of its #MeToo movement. These shifting principles are filtering out into how women spend their time and their money, in a country in which a premium has long been placed on beauty.

Celebrating a record-breaking opening of the newest installment of the Halloween movie franchise, lead actor Jamie Lee Curtis Tweeted with obvious and well deserved pride two of the records the opening shattered: biggest horror movie opening with a female lead and biggest movie opening with a female lead over 55. The movie shattered any remaining notions that women cannot lead a financially successful horror movie.

Her case is extraordinary, not because sexual assault was even remotely uncommon in Rome back in 1612 (when the trial began), but rather because there was a trial at all, and one that provided a perfect scandal to be dissected by the gossips of her day. It is also extraordinary that a transcript of this too-notorious case survives, almost wholly intact, providing a rich tapestry of character assaults that continue to color our perceptions of the artist today.

"I don’t think plus-size clothing has a future. The world doesn’t need another plus-size brand. I think what we need to do is take those two branches, the plus-size and the straight-size, and bind them back together and just start making clothes for women, for everyone."

In 2016, Make Equal created #Guytalk. The concept—dinners for “starting conversations about what it’s like to be a man”— are now being held in cities throughout northern Europe, attracting men from many fields. Anyone can hold one. Make Equal offers a slew of tip sheets and conversation starters, as well as a step-by-step guide to structure what could be an awkward evening, for men who aren’t used to opening up.

“Of all the many passions and crazes in 19th-century gardening and natural history, none was as long lasting or as wide reaching as fern fever,” wrote Sarah Whittingham in Fern Fever: The Story of Pteridomania. For women, the social significance of the moment transcended mere trendiness. Collecting ferns was a rare activity male-dominated (and chaperone-obsessed) Victorian society permitted women to do on their own.

Vogue’s publisher, Condé Nast, has recently implemented its own 18-and-up policy, after the onslaught of #MeToo revelations led it to create a new global vendor code of conduct. The policy includes provisions to make sure models are working in safe environments and stipulates that no model younger than 18 will be shot for editorials, unless the person is the subject of an article, “in which case the model will be both chaperoned and styled in an age-appropriate manner.”