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Angry Robot Women Rise in Sci Fi (Again)
This year’s major science-fiction awards had strong female representation, but don’t call it a feminist victory for the genre just yet.
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Hello Turkey Toe/Flickr Don't Outlaw Catcalling
Street harassment is a problem worth addressing, but making it a criminal offense is worse than doing nothing at all.
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Hassan Ammar/AP Egypt Won't Admit Homosexuals Exist, but It Will Imprison Them
The country has no explicit laws against homosexual acts. That's why its courts used a 1951 law—one originally intended to prevent prostitution—to jail men for participating in a gay wedding.
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Dan Koeck/ProPublica North Dakota's Personhood Vote Could Affect More Than Abortion
If the initiative passes, it could have implications for everything from in-vitro fertilization to end-of-life care.
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Neeta Lind/Flickr Sex on Campus: UCLA Students Weigh Affirmative-Consent Laws
The loudest voices in the debate have come from off-campus. What do current undergraduates think?
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Brian Snyder/Reuters Will a Major Sports Team Ever Wear Pink?
Probably not. And the breast-cancer-awareness phenomenon Pinktober isn't helping.
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ABC Gay Sex on How to Get Away With Murder: Offensive, Crass, and Smart
This is a show full of people indulging in their worst behaviors, so regressive "bottom shaming" isn't irresponsible writing. It's consistent.
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Image of woman via Dean Drobot/Shutterstock Rape Is Not a Data Problem
The tech sector has tackled sexual violence like it tackles laundry delivery, and entirely missed the point.
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Max Taylor/The Atlantic Gaming Out the End of the Gay-Marriage Fight
Evan Wolfson and Ted Olson aren't pleased with the Supreme Court's decision not to make marriage equality the law of the land, but they're ready to keep fighting.
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Hollaback/YouTube 'Hey, Baby': What It's Like to Walk on the Street While Being Female
A video brings the logic of "ask me anything" to the experience of women's commutes.
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All photos from Facebook page of Fly38Charlie, unless … The Flying Housewife
50 years ago, Jerrie Mock became the first woman to fly solo around the world.
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Jordan Schermerhorn/Medium The Cost of Driving to an Abortion
On top of the clinic fees, the hotel, and the time away from work, Texas's size would make gas money an additional hurdle if its harsh abortion law goes into effect.
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Wikimedia Commons The Female Pioneers Who Changed STEM Forever
How did two daughters of New York immigrants enter a male-dominated field in the 1940s and go on to win the Nobel Prize?
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Lauren Giordano/The Atlantic Rise of the Feminist Tinder-Creep-Busting Web Vigilante
Many women say they've received harassing or offensive messages on online-dating sites. Will airing the obscene exchanges publicly help?
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Rick Scuteri/AP Federal Recognition of Gay Marriage: Now Matching Public Opinion
As of today, the number of people who live in states where same-sex marriage is recognized is more or less the same as the number of people who don't oppose it.
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AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi Social Media Couldn't Save Reyhaneh Jabbari
A campaign to halt an Iranian woman's execution was ultimately unsuccessful.
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Powers Imagery/AP Annie Lennox, Let Twerkers Twerk
When the Scottish singer disses the likes of Miley and Rihanna, she makes feminism smaller.
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Hey Paul Studios/Flickr You Don't Have to Feel Your Breasts
Breast self-exams haven't been shown to save lives. Instead, here's how to actually tell if you might have breast cancer.
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Reuters If Norwegian Women Can’t Have It All, Can Anyone?
Even in a country with forward-thinking child-care policies, women still can't get ahead.
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Jake Swearingen/Shutterstock The Imminent Death of the Internet Troll
A new Pew study confirms that online harassment is endemic. But human behavior—and the limits placed on it by both law and society—can change.
