1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (300+ words) Editor’s note: Nasrin Sotoudeh is an Iranian human rights lawyer and activist who, along with her husband Reza Khandan, has been repeatedly arrested for her women’s rights activism and spent six years in prison. In the wake of Gloria Steinem’s…...

2+ day, 5+ hour ago   (420+ words) Buhl and her colleagues focused on New Zealand. Over the past decade and a half, the country has achieved high levels of gender equality, including reaching gender parity in its parliament. The researchers wanted to see if this measurable increase…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (173+ words) New Statesman The rumour mill works quickly at a temporary mass-arrest jail in Washington DC. It had been only an hour since I was bundled out of a police van into a freezing warehouse filled with rows of fold-out plastic chairs…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago   (433+ words) As I researched my second book, The Recovery of Family Life: Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologies, I read Steinem’s influential 1970 Time essay, “What It Would Be Like If Women Win,” to understand what the fully realized feminist project would…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (266+ words) More Americans have a very or somewhat favorable opinion of feminism than an unfavorable one (50% vs. 30%), the latest Economist / YouGov Poll finds. Soon after the death of Gloria Steinem, we asked Americans about her legacy and the state of gender…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (1665+ words) Markey’s primary win deemed success for LGBTQ activists HRC president campaigns for Chris Pappas in NH Chris Van Hollen says the Democratic Party needs change. Is he the one to lead it? Log Cabin Republicans remove transgender rights from mission…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (830+ words) Texas’ Republican Senate nominee is facing an online backlash from people who would prefer if women were not in the workforce. Grace Panetta, Chabeli Carrazana It’s not unusual for presidential administrations to cheer on job numbers, as the White House…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (507+ words) September 9, 2026By Elizabeth Scalia OSV News Filed Under: Commentary “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.” “If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.” Neither of those feminist slogans originated with Gloria Steinem, who credited…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (369+ words) Gloria Steinem was actually typical of her generation of 1970s feminists: fighting for women’s rights, but taking it much too far. She and the rest of them did those of us a couple of generations younger no favours at all. They…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (35+ words) Mae Suramek reflects on how Gloria Steinem and bell hooks shaped her understanding of feminism, from discovering her own power as a girl to embracing a more intersectional vision rooted in love, community and justice....