Since 1966, 70 computer scientists have won the Turing Award. Only three have been women. Some hypothesize that the dearth of women Turing Award recipients reflects women’s underrepresentation in the field. However, the roughly 4 percent of women recipients does not approximate the fact that women currently earn 21 percent of the Ph.D.s in computer science, down from the 1987 peak of 37 percent.

Things that help sexual assailants escape prison time: discarded rape kits, mislabeled cases, knowing the victim, a deeply ingrained sympathy from investigators and judges.

China changed its single child restriction in 2016, but the country still has a lot of work to do toward making motherhood work for women.

Breast-feeding is heavily promoted, yet there is hardly any time for actual nursing if you’re a woman who needs to work (and that’s most mothers). Our workplace structures make nursing extremely costly to women and fail to recognize its monetary value.

"Women are still expected to do most of the child care and housework. They’re spending about twice the amount of time on it, even when they’re working full-time and even when they’re making more money. So a lot of our experience of time and our views of time are still very influenced by some of these very traditional gender roles."

For voters and pundits, worrying about women’s likability is a nice way to express a nasty bias.

Many female slaveholders were just as invested in the institution as their male counterparts.

The abuse she suffered at the hands of Nike is horrific, but some of the underlying issues are all too common.

As a transgender guy who’s spoken to young people about gender for nearly 25 years, I am happy to see a doll that isn’t a stiff and insistent representation of what it means to be a woman (or a man). But as we head into toymakers’ most shamelessly commercial season of the year, I am also deeply skeptical of what the doll is actually communicating and what it is truly accomplishing.

Some activists have argued that prosecutors should be able to use “Me Too” evidence—allegations that a defendant committed a similar offense against individuals other than the victim in the case at hand. This evidence isn’t easily admissible. But prosecutors may be able to persuade courts that the voices of other victims can help a judge or jury determine the truth of an accusation.