Justine Bateman spoke to 47 women about their aging faces and turned their stories into a collection of short narratives. She asks, what if we just rejected the idea that older faces need fixing. What if we ignored all the clanging bells that remind women every day on every platform that we are in some kind of endless battle with aging.

The story of Cinderella has mutated through time, from 17th century France to the present, though some would trace it back even earlier. But it has not always been equally popular—and the narrative’s rise and fall offers a unique window into what our culture expects of and for women.

Starting this summer, the Abundant Birth Project will give $1,000 per month to 150 Black and Pacific Islander mothers for the duration of their pregnancies and the first six months of their children’s lives. The experiment is the latest in a growing collection of programs across the nation that aim to address systemic poverty, inequality, and racism not by reworking fragmented safety net programs, but by giving additional cash directly to people in need.

Furious women across Australia are now opening up with their own experiences of sexism, sexual harassment and sexual abuse. And it’s begun conversations about inherent discrimination and mistreatment of women—both within the halls of Australian government, and across the wider society.

This wave of protests—the world’s largest ongoing demonstration and perhaps the biggest in human history—has prompted thousands to make their voices heard. And women in particular are fighting to make themselves seen as farmers. Their labor is immense but largely considered invisible.

Parks is usually talked about as “a tired seamstress” who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Ala., bus in 1955, leading to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. But in recent years, there’s been more awareness of the fact that Parks had been a civil rights activist for more than a decade before that day on the bus. In fact, her activism started with wanting to register to vote in the 1940s.

The story of the 999 girls from Slovakia is a reminder that women and girls are the key targets in war and in genocide, and that historians have a responsibility to tell their stories faithfully.

Melinda Gates argues that if global leaders put women at the center of plans for recovery, "...the very financial systems that have excluded the poorest women will begin connecting them with the bank accounts they need to climb out of poverty. Policymakers in all corners of the globe will begin treating caregiving as essential infrastructure, making it possible for more women to engage in their economies and communities."

Widely known as “America’s first female cryptanalyst,” in World War I, Elizebeth and William Friedman directed an unofficial code-breaking team employed by the national government. During the Prohibition era, Elizebeth was responsible for breaking codes used by narcotics and alcohol smugglers, incriminating high-profile mob-run rum rings, including that of Al Capone in New Orleans.

Author Koa Beck writes, "While it is true that COVID-19 has been a “disaster” for all women, calling it a “disaster for feminism” when that description clearly refers only to the pandemic’s effect on professional women glosses over an ever-present and nefarious underlying ideology that pre-dates COVID-19: white feminism."

A new generation of Russian poets taking up language as a form of political protest, challenging state, societal and patriarchal norms with poetry that draws from personal experience.