They weren’t nuns. They weren’t wives. They built their own communities where women could own property, earn money, and leave whenever they wanted—in medieval Europe, when women had almost no rights at all.Medieval Europe offered women exactly two acceptable paths: marriage or the convent. Become a wife, submit to your husband’s authority, bear his children, […]

Eleanor Roosevelt was born into one of America’s most privileged families, but privilege couldn’t protect her from cruelty that lived inside her own home. Her mother, Anna Hall Roosevelt, was a celebrated beauty—elegant, admired, the kind of woman who commanded rooms effortlessly. And she looked at her daughter Eleanor with visible disappointment. “Granny,” she called

In 1997, Ashley Judd was a rising Hollywood star. She was invited to what she thought was a breakfast business meeting with producer Harvey Weinstein at a hotel.It wasn’t a business meeting.Weinstein propositioned her inappropriately, pressuring her in ways that made her deeply uncomfortable. Ashley refused his advances and left.She thought that was the end

On April 26, 2016, Donald Trump stood before his supporters after sweeping five Republican primaries and turned his attention to Hillary Clinton.“I think the only card she has is the woman’s card,” he said. “She’s got nothing else going. And frankly, if Hillary Clinton were a man, I don’t think she’d get five percent of