With Vice President Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket and Senate seats open, Democrats could for the first time send two Black women to the chamber.

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For a generation of girls raised to believe they could be anything, the Trump era moved their politics to the left, a new analysis shows.

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Doctors underestimate the pain of IUD insertion.

Accepting that is the first step toward making it more tolerable.

Three readers could pick the story written by Curtis Sittenfeld; another calls the experiment unfair. Also: Afghan women; athletes and crowds; pro-union workers.

A deeper psychological tendency is also at work.

Growing numbers of Chinese women are challenging a longstanding tradition that denies them village membership, and the lucrative payouts that go with it.

A seemingly frothy reality show has a deeper conflict at its core.

You don’t have to have kids to have kids in your life.

You don’t have to have kids to have kids in your life.

Self-defense laws were written for men. This is how they fail women who fight back.

At a Moms for Liberty event on Friday night, the former president passed up a pretty good opportunity.

Can she finally move us past identity politics?

The Trump campaign’s attacks on Kamala Harris echo misogynistic attacks on ancient Roman empresses and medieval queens.

Su Min became an internet sensation for leaving behind an abusive husband to drive across China alone. Now she’s ending the marriage, but there will be a price.

Despite a declining birthrate that has alarmed the nation’s leaders, regulations in China prevent unmarried women from freezing their eggs.