Voters under 50 are the least open to electing a female president, and four in 10 Americans personally know someone who would not elect a woman to the White House, a new poll finds. The American ...

Set at the end of the Wars of the Roses, the long dynastic struggle between the English royal houses of York and Lancaster, Jo Harkin’s exuberant historical novel “The Pretender” brings to life one of ...

The 1970s produced some of the most talented, prolific and iconic female vocalists of all time. From once-in-a-lifetime voices like Patti LaBelle and Aretha Franklin to pop culture royalty like Patti ...

Democrats wanted to end the electability debate. After Vice President Kamala Harris’s defeat, a conversation that has frustrated and foiled two generations of female candidates rages on. By Lisa Lerer ...

Fifteen-year-old Natalie “Samantha” Rupnow, who killed a teacher and a student at a Wisconsin Christian school on Tuesday, is a remarkably rare case of a female shooter, according to law enforcement ...

A 17-year-old female student on Monday opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, killing a teacher and a fellow student before dying by suicide, a law enforcement official ...

You’ve likely heard of the male gaze, the concept coined by British film theorist Laura Mulvey in her 1973 essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” In her writing, she notes that the “male gaze ...

There’s no single way for a woman to be a badass—she can kick ass like the Bride (Uma Thurman) in “Kill Bill,” solve a crime like Clarice (Jodie Foster) in “The Silence of the Lambs,” or lead a ...

Men may be the more traditional villains in movies, but women have been some of the best. The kind of characters we just love to hate, played by some of the greatest actresses of all time. Here is our ...

Perhaps nothing has been more damaging to women running for office than the idea that voters simply won’t pick female candidates. There’s just one problem: It isn’t true. But was the anxiety warranted ...

There are more licensed female drivers in the U.S. than licensed male drivers. But men nonetheless drive far more than women each year. A disproportionate share of fatal traffic accidents involve male ...

Nearly 35 years ago, former president Gerald Ford stood in a room full of schoolchildren in West Branch, Iowa, and faced an unexpected question. “Mr. Ford, what advice would you give a young lady ...