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Chris Pizzello / Reuters If Americans Can Be Transgender, Can They Be Transracial?
A new book explores the flexibility of race and gender.
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Rebecca Clarke The Job of Staying Home
Terry Spraitz Ciszek, a homemaker in Fayetteville, North Carolina, talks about changing perceptions of women in the traditional economy and those who choose to leave their careers to raise a family.
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Julio Cortez / AP Is It Sexist to Comment on Clinton's Smile?
The Democrat’s supporters seem to believe she’s entitled to lighter scrutiny than her opponents.
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Matt Dunham / AP The Sexist Response to a Science Book Prize
After Andrea Wulf won the Royal Society’s highest honor for her book The Invention of Nature, a writer at The Guardian attributed it to a new fondness for “female-friendly” biographies among prize juries.
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Wikimedia Commons How Pop Culture Tells Women to Shut Up
Sady Doyle’s new book, Trainwreck, explores the many ways the U.S. (and its media, and its paparazzi, and its Donald Trump) continue to demean the ladyfolk.
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ABC Modern Family Tip-Toes Around Its First Transgender Character
The episode “A Stereotypical Day” featured 8-year-old Jackson Millarker in an attempt to get the characters to inspect their own attitudes.
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John Vizcaino / Reuters To Be a Guerrilla, and a Woman, in Colombia
The country's historic peace deal means thousands of female fighters are giving up their weapons. But what happens then?
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Yannis Behrakis / Reuters Half of Americans Don't Think Transgender People Should Be Able to Pick Their Bathroom
A new survey suggests gender identity, along with sexuality, continues to divide Americans.
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Rebecca Clarke What It’s Like to Be a Woman in Venture Capital
Ann Crady Weiss, an entrepreneur and venture partner in Silicon Valley, talks about being a female executive in tech.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Hillary Clinton and the Resurrection of Old-School Hysteria
There’s a long tradition in American life of using women’s health to discredit them—as conspiracy theorists have done with the Democratic nominee.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Four Donald Trumps You Meet on Earth
I swear there’s something familiar about this guy.
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Arben Celi / Reuters Abandon Parenting, and Just Be a Parent
In her new book, The Gardener and the Carpenter, Alison Gopnik offers up a more organic approach to raising children.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters The Tabloids Know Who to Blame for the Jolie-Pitt Divorce
Of course they do.
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Harris & Ewing / Library of Congress / … What America Lost as Women Entered the Workforce
Civic organizations were built on the voluntary labor of women. As the demands on women's time increase, communities are suffering.
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Universal The Best Female Characters Come From Books
Is literature better at coming up with complex women protagonists than Hollywood? A long history of book-to-film adaptations suggests so.
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AP ‘Women Atheists Are Genuinely Considered Monsters’
Americans have long been suspicious of nonbelievers. Misogyny, nativism, and racism have often been tied up in their fear.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Curse of Hillary Clinton’s Ambition
Some voters seem to believe the Democratic nominee cares too much about winning.
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Julia Burlingham Mykki Blanco's Super-Sad Queer Rap Love Story
His debut Mykki injects some yearning into a party-starting formula.
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Peter Andrews / Getty Birth Control's Troubling Myths
Nearly a third of women are misinformed about the most effective forms of contraceptives, a new report finds.
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Rebecca Clarke A Doorwoman in a Doorman's World
Marilyn Rivera, a building attendant at a luxury apartment in Manhattan, talks about why she doesn’t mind starting her day at 3:20 every morning.
