Part of the first generation of women ordained in America, she presided over the first bar mitzvah in Krakow, still scarred by the Holocaust, in decades. It did not go smoothly.

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The speaker emerita is disappointed and a little surprised that the presidential glass ceiling remains intact, but confident that it will change.

Joyce Arthur says she is a living testimony to the benefit of investing in African girls’ education.

It’s not a coincidence that more young men are blaming women for their problems, Jamelle Bouie says.

This started long before President Trump was in office, Michelle Cottle says.

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Trump didn’t invent misogyny, but he’s leaning into it.

Trump didn’t invent misogyny, but he’s leaning into it.

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Cases of domestic violence in China point to a legal system that looks good on paper but is failing victims because of a lack of resources and political will.