The United States Federal Glass Ceiling Commission defines the glass ceiling as follows, “The invisible, yet unbreakable barrier keeping minorities as well as women from...
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Women’s suffrage was a giant leap for democracy. We haven’t stuck the landing yet.
Women’s suffrage is sometimes portrayed as the triumphant end of a movement, the hard-won reward for decades of marches, protests, hunger strikes, feeding tubes. Really,...
Doubly Essential: How the Pandemic Harms Working Women
Prior to the pandemic, US college-educated women—today, about 36 percent of all women 25 and older—had come the closest of any generation to attaining the simultaneous goal...
The Woman Who Changed the Way We See the Seafloor
Marie Tharp’s historic maps of underwater topography reimagined two-thirds of the Earth. Read more…
Greta Thunberg Is the Youngest TIME Person of the Year Ever. Here’s How She Made History
With her selection in 2019, 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg becomes the youngest individual ever to be named TIME’s Person of the Year. Read more…
A Wave of Global Youth Activism: Greta Thunberg Is Time’s Person of the Year
Sometimes the most important lessons in school happen outside the classroom. Read more…
Change in Finland: A government led by five women and the world’s youngest prime minister
Finland is set to get a new left-wing government this month, led by five female leaders, four of whom are younger than 35. Read more…
Why are there so few women in aviation?
When Southwest Captain Tammie Jo Shults landed a crippled 737 last year after an engine blew apart mid-air, many people were surprised to find out...
What does female authority sound like? Marie Yovanovitch and Fiona Hill just showed us.
Public impeachment hearings began last week, if you’ll recall, with “Walter Cronkite” trending on Twitter. Why? Read more…
Baltimore Museum Of Art Will Buy Works By Women Only Next Year
Step into one of the nation’s top art museums, and most of the works you’ll see were made by men. Read more…