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| Sep 3, 2026 | Gloria Steinem in her own words on women’s rights, abortion politics and being called the B-word | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Author and feminist icon Gloria Steinem was famously quotable, balancing blunt talk with a wit that could be cutting and disarmingly self-effacing.
In interviews and emails with Associated Press re... |
| Sep 3, 2026 | Gloria Steinem, a potent voice of US feminism and co-founder of Ms. Magazine, dies at 92 | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By JOCELYN NOVECK, AP National Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Gloria Steinem, the celebrated author and activist who became the most visible symbol of the U.S. women’s movement and remained a fierce and el... |
| Mar 20, 2026 | Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control | When Rep. Leigh Finke spoke last month before the Minnesota House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee to testify against HF1434, a broad-sweeping proposal to age-gate the internet, she began with something disarming: agreement.
“I want to... |
| Dec 11, 2025 | Trump wants Americans to make more babies. Critics say his policies won’t help raise them | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By Stephanie Armour, Amanda Seitz, KFF Health News
Maddy Olcott plans to start a career once she graduates from college. But the junior at the State University of New York-Purchase College is so fa... |
| Nov 3, 2025 | Review: ‘Liberation’ on Broadway is brave enough to ask, what does feminism mean? | NEW YORK — The great playwright August Wilson used to say he’d just let his characters talk and then try and get out of their way. Bess Wohl’s fascinating and superbly acted Broadway play “Liberation,” by contrast, is entirely frank that th... |
| Dec 23, 2024 | The Double-Edged Sword of AI in Policing: A Call for Caution | Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the shiny new tool in the toolbox of law enforcement. It promises efficiency, speed, and a reduction in paperwork. But as the saying goes, not all that glitters is gold. The recent push by companies like Axon... |
| Dec 22, 2024 | Commentary | Opinion: Kate Kelly: Biden should certify the ERA | With an incoming president who bragged about rolling back Roe v. Wade and a conservative supermajority on the U.S. Supreme Court, one of Biden’s last actions in office should be to protect abortion rights by changing the actual text of the ... |
| Apr 21, 2024 | Opinion Columnists | Opinion: Dara E. Purvis: Other states, like Arizona, could resurrect 100-year-old laws on abortion, LGBTQ+ issues
By Dara E. Purvis | By Dara E. Purvis
When the Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to get an abortion in June 2022, Justice Clarence Thomas suggested that the court “should reconsider” other rights it currently recognizes — like the rights for sa... |
| Apr 19, 2024 | Final ‘Pregnant Workers Fairness Act’ Regulations Were Released—And It’s Great News for Women | Today, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released its final regulations implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. The landmark statute mandating “reasonable accommodation” of workers’ pregnancy-related needs went into e... |
| Jun 2, 2023 | Meet Colleen Hoover, the controversial author taking BookTok by storm | Entertainment Meet Colleen Hoover, the controversial author taking BookTok by storm
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| Mar 4, 2023 | Commentary
Commentary | Guest opinion: Domenica Ghanem: This women’s history month, we won’t renegotiate our place in the economy | By Domenica Ghanem
A lot has changed since 2011, the year I graduated high school. Tiktok was invented, there are now 12 Kardashian grandchildren, and I’m about to turn 30. But some things never change.
Back then, at the height of the Tea P... |
| Jan 27, 2023 | How US police use digital data to prosecute abortions | In late April, police in Nebraska received a tip saying 17-year-old Celeste Burgess had given birth to a stillborn baby and buried the body. Officers soon learned that her mother, Jessica Burgess, and a friend had helped her with transporta... |
| Jan 4, 2023 | New FDA Rules Make It Easier To Get Medication Abortion | 382212 02: The controversial abortion pill known as RU-486, seen here as Mifeprex, is being shipped ... [+] to U.S. physicians for the first time beginning November 20, 2000 following approval of the drug by the Food and Drug Administration... |
| Nov 1, 2022 | Northerners flocked to the South for cheap homes and abundant jobs. Now some are ready to pack up and leave. | This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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Maddy Hauser is a meat-quality technician living in Smithfield, North Carolina, a town about 30 miles southeast of the state's c... |
| Jul 4, 2022 | The Supreme Court’s War on Life, the Universe and Everything | It may be commonplace these days to predict another civil war in America, but for much of the media the conflict has already begun. We’re at war, folks, and the enemy wears black robes.
The Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade l... |
| May 5, 2022 | Why a Focus on Gender Increases National Security | Early in his presidency, President Biden made clear his commitment to promoting gender equity and equality. On International Women’s Day in March 2021, he issued Executive Order 14020, establishing the White House Gender Policy Council and ... |
| Jan 18, 2022 | Wary of a backlash, telehealth startups focused on women’s sexual health steer clear of abortion pills | The online pharmacy Nurx advertises itself as the company that “gives women sexual freedom.” Hims & Hers aims to “eliminate stigma” and improve health care access. Tia offers telehealth services focused on “whole woman, whole life.” And... |
| Jan 13, 2022 | The solution to the wave of nurse resignations? Cold, hard cash | It’s been said so often it’s almost trite: Burnout among nurses drags down hospitals’ quality of care, hollows out the ranks of nurses, and smashes to smithereens any resilience they might have built.
But just as plain as the human tragedy ... |
| Dec 29, 2021 | Oklahoma And Florida Consider A More Aggressive Approach To Teacher Gag Laws | Coming to a classroom near you? getty |
| Dec 10, 2021 | Cardi B’s new appointment as creative director of Playboy could inject diversity and relevance to the brand | Cardi B is the first ever creative director in residence for Playboy. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images
Playboy recently announced Cardi B as its inaugural creative director in residence.
Insider asked top media and feminist scholars what this m... |
| Nov 1, 2021 | As FDA Considers Easing Medication Abortion Restrictions, New Study Finds Patients Prefer Flexibility | In this photo illustration, a person looks at an Abortion Pill (RU-486) for unintended pregnancy ... [+] from Mifepristone displayed on a smartphone on May 8, 2020, in Arlington, Virginia. - One week after Sally realized she was pregnant, h... |
| Apr 7, 2021 | “Burned out”: Study shows the devastating impact of COVID-19 on women in tech | A global report published last month has revealed the devastating hit women in tech faced during the COVID-19 pandemic, including startling data that suggests women who work under male bosses have a higher rate of burnout than women working... |
| Feb 19, 2021 | The former law student whom Rush Limbaugh called a ‘sl-t’ says she’s focused on moving past the hate ‘he sowed’ | Sandra Fluke AP
The former law student Limbaugh smeared nine years ago refuses to let him define her.
“I am focusing my energies on passing good strong legislation to strengthen our democracy,” Sandra Fluke told Insider.
“I wasn’t going to ... |
| Dec 2, 2020 | 10 popular movies from the ’90s that haven’t aged well | ‘Never Been Kissed’ has been called out as depicting inappropriate student-teacher relationships. Getty Images / Handout
Some beloved films from the 1990s have scenes, jokes, and plots that can be really difficult to watch decades later.
“D... |
| Nov 10, 2020 | Six Strategies To Help Retain Female Talent Moving Forward | Founder & CEO of TONE Networks, a comprehensive SaaS platform addressing gender equity, professional development and well-being. |
| May 29, 2020 | Using Cannabis While Pregnant Does Not Impair Children’s Cognition, Decades Of Studies Suggest | Stock - a father and son dressed as dragons play in their living room.Getty |
| Jun 1, 2018 | Weird? Nope. Austin Really Encourages More Diversity in Tech | Could a Texas city be poised to show up Silicon Valley when it comes to embracing diversity in so-called STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields?
You bet your authentic “Keep Austin Weird” T-shirt.
While the West Coa... |
| Feb 24, 2016 | President Obama Nominates New Librarian Of Congress Who Supports Open Access, Fights Against Surveillance | So here’s a pleasant surprise. President Obama has nominated Carla Hayden as the new Librarian of Congress, and at a first glance, she looks perfect for the job. The job is super important for a whole variety of reasons, including that the ... |
| Jan 29, 2015 | What (Some) Silicon Valley Women Think Of Newsweek | I have thoughts on this Newsweek article.
Tech has some issues. You read trade pub stories about sexual harassment and assault allegations so often it’s absurd. Newsweek, which just discovered there are only a few women in tech, sent accomp... |
| Aug 9, 2014 | Men Initiating Change Is An Important Step Toward Eradicating Tech’s Bro Culture | Telle Whitney Contributor
Editor’s note: Telle Whitney is the President and CEO of the Anita Borg Institute and co-founder of the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Connecting, inspiring, and guiding women technologists is her ... |
| Feb 2, 2014 | GoldieBlox’s Super Bowl Ad Is A Counterbalance To Rampant Sexism | On Sunday night, about 110 million people turned on their TVs to watch a series of lavish, expensively produced 30-second skits interspersed with live footage of men throwing a ball around. Fox Sports charged up to $4.5 million for each ad ... |
| Nov 2, 2012 | From Katrina to Sandy: How the Internet spread the word | Social media, and mobile, have changed the way people get their emergency alerts
Unless you’ve been under a rock for the past week, you know that large parts of New York and New Jersey are under water from Hurricane Sandy. Watching the news... |
| Turning down a $300K job, deferring dreams of Austin: How Roe's end is changing millennials' career plans—and lives | The overturn of Roe v. Wade in June ended nearly 50 years of federal abortion rights, meaning access to health care depends on where you live and work more than ever.
Restricted abortion access will have major career and financial consequen... |
| The ‘abortion queen’ wants patients to have ‘skin in the game.’ Is that restricting access? | BRISTOL, Va. — Stephanie Rosenwinge was excited to work for the queen of abortion. She’d grown up in rural Virginia with an abusive, alcoholic father. Her mother had had an abortion in 1973, and it may have saved her life: As Rosenwinge put... |
| A year after the Taliban's takeover, Afghanistan has become 'a cage for Afghan women,' activist Yalda Royan says | KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - AUGUST 13: Taliban fighters fired into the air as they dispersed a rare rally by women as they chanted "Bread, work and freedom" and marched in front of the education ministry building, days ahead of the first... |
