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Women Aren’t “Under-babied.” They’re Under Threat

Alex Cooper’s Baby News Exposes The Feminist Lie She Sold Millions Of Women

Alex Cooper got rich and famous by normalizing and encouraging hook-up culture, only to ditch it for what women really want.

Feminist Lessons from the 2000s: The Power of a Feminist Majority

The 2000s opened with a contradiction: Feminist ideas had never been more popular—polls found that overwhelming majorities of women and substantial majorities of men agreed with th...

How I Became a Feminist Historian, and Why It Matters Now More Than Ever

In August, the Department of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Texas at Austin will close. I joined the department last year after leaving the University o...

Feminist Lessons from the 2010s: When Millions Refused to Go Back, Feminists Turned Backlash Into Power

The 2010s began with a burst of feminist victories that seemed to signal a new era. Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, appointed Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan...

May 21 Virtual Event: Tackling Patriarchy and Power (With Anna Malaika Tubbs, Aisha Becker-Burrowes and Danielle Robay)

The Feminist Majority Foundation and Ms. have partnered with Women's Foundation California to invite you to a national virtual conversation with Dr. Anna Malaika Tubbs that turns o...

Esther’s Army is fresh look at Christian women of the Right

Back then it was Beverly LaHaye and Phylis Schlafly. Now it’s Alex Clark and Allie Beth Stuckey. To be a female conservative Christian leader is to navigate the contradictions in m...

July 2026 Reads for the Rest of Us

Each month, Ms. provides readers with a list of new books being published by writers from historically excluded groups. Dear feminist reader friends, I don’t ask you for much. But...

Feminist Lessons from the 1970s: How Feminists Transformed American Life

In 1972, when Ms. first hit newsstands, abortion was illegal in most of the country. Women could be denied credit cards, mortgages and loans without a husband’s signature. Newspape...

Mamdani’s Movement Interests May Collide with His Mayoral Interests

Feminist Lessons from 2020 to Present: The Fight for Democracy Is Far From Over

The decade opened amid a pandemic, economic upheaval and a reckoning over democracy itself. In early 2020, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, see...

Call Her Happily Married After Premarital Sex Just Like Countless Other Women

Conservative scolding of Alex Cooper, creator of the Call Her Daddy podcast, is completely out of touch with reality.

Feminist Lessons From the 1990s: How Women Became a Political Force

The 1990s began with feminists determined not to surrender the ground they had fought for in the Reagan era—and almost immediately, the stakes became impossible to ignore. In Octo...

The Impossible Path Forward for Women in Politics

Republicans have spent years disparaging all things associated with women. Now Democrats are following suit.

My Wife Makes All The Money — and All The Decisions

A reader wishes she had a little bit more financial freedom in her relationship, and another wonders if it's okay for a messy apartment to be a dealbreaker. The post My Wife Makes...

The Heritage Foundation’s Troubling “Pro-Natalist” Agenda

The right-wing organization blames “feminism” for falling fertility rates. Not surprisingly, its “solutions” are hostile to women. The post The Heritage Foundation’s Troubling “Pro...

Feministische Führungskräfte: „Feminismus bedeutet Aushandlung“

Sind Linke und FLINTA die besseren Chef*innen? Nein, sagen Steff Urgast und Dana Müller in ihrem Buch. Feministische Institutionen wollen sie nicht angreifen, sondern stärken. mehr...

Extra Bonus Quote of the Day

“I actually think the more important advice that I would give would be to my incumbent colleagues, which is, you will create a self-fulfilling prophecy by deciding who these young...

Women’s Work: My Barrier-Breaking Early Years at Mother Jones

As I page through colorful old copies of the magazines from my eight years at Mother Jones, memories start firing. I came on board as an editor in 1979, just as we were moving into...

Womena Platform Founder Elissa Freiha Wants The World To See Feminism Through The Eyes Of Arab Women

When we hear or read narratives about feminism in mainstream media, it is typically through a white and Western lens. This is problematic on a global scale, as it stops feminists a...

The Age of Friedman

The Feminist Fashionistas Uncork Ugliness Against Usha

One way our nation’s most “prestigious” newspapers show they’re Democratic Party propaganda sheets is when their fashion critics apply all of their tawdry partisan biases to their...

Democrats' witness opposing Blanche's confirmation is more than an Epstein survivor

Dani Bensky and a group of women who were abused by Jeffrey Epstein have formed a bond they call a "survivor sisterhood." They live in two worlds, of advocacy and everyday life and...

I'm the organizer in my friend group. Someone has to be, or we'd never see each other.

I've learned that strong female friendships don't happen by accident. Usually, someone has to send the text first.