The Women's Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, New York, preserves the site of the first Women's Rights ...

Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first scholars to focus on women’s roles in the civil rights movement. Her 1993 book Trailblazers and Torchbearers dives into the stories of female leaders ...

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Authoritarian regimes consistently restrict women’s and girls’ rights more severely than rights-respecting democracies. But today’s rising authoritarian governments differ from 20th-century ...

Sunday marks International Women’s Day, commemorating the battle for equality and the women’s rights movement.

Known as the “godmother of civil rights,” Dorothy Height fought not just for racial justice but for women’s equality.

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Autocracies now outnumber democracies, and nearly three-quarters of the world’s population lives under authoritarian rule. Over the past decade, dictators in China and Russia consolidated their ...