Is Essure making women sick?
Gender & Sexuality
Sons and Daughters
The village in the Dominican Republic where girls turn into boys.
The Battle Over Essure
Some people see a breakthrough in female contraception. Others see a dangerous medical device.
Mother’s Day
When seeing your mother means a nine-hour journey — and a trip to prison.
Leaked Draft of Trump’s Religious Freedom Order Reveals Sweeping Plans to Legalize Discrimination
If signed, the order would create wholesale exemptions for organizations who claim religious objections to same-sex marriage, abortion, and trans identity.
Cleaning up the Parks
After years of intransigence over sexual harassment at the Grand Canyon, a resignation, a termination, and Congressional hearings.
The Making of an American Terrorist
Robert Dear shot up a Planned Parenthood clinic, killing three people. Did the right-wing media help turn a disturbed loner into a mass murderer?
With Child
The right to choose in Rapid City
Host of Problems
What happens when au pairs encounter long hours, low pay, and abusive host families.
Cultural Ambassadors or Low-Wage Nannies?
Au pairs come to the US through a State Department cultural exchange program. But are their labor rights protected?
The 20-Week Abortion Ban Bind
More and more state bans mean that women who learn of unviable pregnancies face extremely limited options.
Without a Fight
Have national pro-choice groups given up on red America?
How ‘Female Viagra’ Got FDA Approval
The “grassroots campaign” for the drug Addyi was actually funded by its manufacturer.
Nike Says It Empowers Women Around the World
But the young women who make its products in Vietnam are intimidated, belittled, and underpaid.
Surviving the Long Haul
For women in the trucking industry, going to work can mean subjecting themselves to catcalling, harassment, rape, and a system built to keep them out.
Can This Woman Replace Planned Parenthood?
Brandi Swindell thinks her Stanton Healthcare can be the go-to place for women’s health care — without providing abortion or contraception.
The High Cost of Unpaid Leave
Paid family leave doesn’t just support gender equity in the workplace. It may also prevent babies’ deaths.
Roe v. Wade Was Lost in 1992
How “undue burden” — a concept nurtured by anti-abortion groups and championed by the first woman on the Supreme Court — has eroded the right to choose.
Out Here, No One Can Hear You Scream
The dangerous culture of male entitlement and sexual hostility hiding within America’s national parks and forests.
“I Felt Set Up”
“Medical” pregnancy centers are starting to look more like abortion clinics.