When asked how he felt being the only male representative, Masanobu Ogura, a Cabinet minister, said that male leaders with strong enthusiasm for gender equality are still needed.

When small talk turns to revolution.

Many people are familiar with the concept of a "pink tax", the reality that women, despite generally having fewer financial resources than men, are charged more for everyday goods. But, as interviews and studies across the world reveal, there is also an unaddressed pink tax on women’s time: A global epidemic of women lacking time to conduct the activities of their everyday lives that men simply do not experience.

Shelley Zalis, CEO of The Female Quotient, writes "We have certainly faced extraordinary challenges over the past few years. But it is unacceptable that, at the same time, we have allowed gender parity to become a secondary priority. Delaying this solution until 2154 is outrageous. We can achieve this in five years. It’s not that difficult, all it takes is choice."

For the great majority of human history, there was no doubt that women were to be understood as workers par excellance.

There’s a growing community of BIPOC women who are leveraging the power of storytelling to grow their businesses and make a real impact on racial wealth gaps.

Before Dodd, abortion was considered a niche, women’s issue and often viewed as tangential to major elections since advocates could challenge laws that violated the protections guaranteed under Roe v. Wade. But now that abortion policy has been returned to the states and reshaped political races around the country, male voters’ opinions about abortion are crucial to the outcomes.

“Frustrated” was the top word chosen by female respondents when asked to choose which on a list of 14 emotions they had experienced most often during the previous 30 days. “Hopeful” was tops for men.

Reshma Sujani, founder of Girls Who Code, writes: "In the coming weeks and months, many white men will continue telling us we should all just go back to how things were before the pandemic. But it’s our job to make sure that if we do 'go back,' full-time or otherwise, we go back to offices we actually want to be in."

After the American Revolution, it was written that “American literature boasts so few productions from the pens of ladies.” Even today, the writing of women like Esther—together with that of Phillis Wheatley, Mercy Otis Warren, and Judith Sargent Murray—remains largely unacknowledged, perpetuating the idea of women as passive victims whose stories don’t need to be told.