gender

After America, It’s China’s Turn to Worry about Masculinity

By Debasish Roy Chowdhury

I Let My Kid Create Their Own Gender Identity

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How Diversity Helped the American Suffrage Movement Succeed

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When U.S. Laws Punished Men for 'Seduction,' Women Were the Ones Who Got Judged

Between 1848 and 1935, the U.S. embarked on one of the most ambitious judicial experiments in its history: the attempt to regulate seduction

By Clement Knox February 4, 2020

What I Learned About Beauty by Interviewing Women Who'd Been Prisoners of the Soviet Gulag

I decided I’d interview only women, because they were less documented than the male prisoners

By Monika Zgustova February 4, 2020

It Matters That Elizabeth Warren Is a Woman. Why Do So Many on the Left Insist That It Doesn't?

The lesson the Barack Obama era should have taught us is the foundational faultiness of specious claims to a post-racial America. For those who refused to see how entrenched racism remained even after Obama’s ascent,...

By Brittney Cooper January 16, 2020

The Remarkable Black Businesswomen Who Found Success in Segregated America

At a time when they couldn’t get credit from a bank or even have their own bank accounts, black women found a measure of success and independence by listing their businesses in the Green Book

By Candacy Taylor January 7, 2020

A 1970 Law Led to the Mass Sterilization of Native American Women. That History Still Matters

Over the six-year period that had followed the passage of the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act of 1970, physicians sterilized perhaps 25% of Native American women of childbearing age

By Brianna Theobald November 27, 2019

It’s Easy to Dismiss Debutante Balls, But Their History Can Help Us Understand Women’s Lives

The debutantes we think of today originated and evolved because they were needed to solve a problem: a surplus of daughters

By Kristen Richardson November 25, 2019

The Wing Is Opening Its First International Space in London. Here's What's Behind the Revival of the City's Private Members' Clubs

It’s the week before The Wing opens its first international location, and the final touches are being made to its five-story townhouse in London’s Fitzrovia. The space is the latest in The Wing’s roster of...

By Suyin Haynes October 22, 2019

TIME and Equality Can’t Wait Partner to Publish Survey on Gender Inequality in the U.S.

TIME, in partnership with Equality Can’t Wait, released the results of a survey on American views about gender inequality. The TIME-commissioned survey, which was conducted by SSRS, polled a nationally representative sample between August 19...

By TIME Staff September 27, 2019

Why Mattel Is Releasing the First Gender-Neutral Doll

A child opens a box. He starts jumping and screaming with joy—not an unusual sound in the halls of Mattel’s headquarters where researchers test new toys. But this particular toy is a doll, and it’s...

By Eliana Dockterman September 25, 2019

The Violence Against Women Act Was Signed 25 Years Ago. Here's How the Law Changed American Culture

Joe Biden described the bill as his “proudest legislative accomplishment"

By Tara Law September 12, 2019
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