In her lifetime, Beatrix Farrand would design more than 200 private and public gardens—always with her distinct eye for intricate detail and perfection in execution, and in spite of numerous gender-based barriers to her own success.
Month: March 2019
We’re Not Okay
After actor Evan Rachel Wood shared on Twitter that she was a survivor of intimate partner violence that eventually led to self-harm, others began telling their own truths—building an avalanche of testimony about violence that builds on the explosion of #MeToo and expands it into critical spaces.
No Responsibility Without Equality
The National Coalition for Men, a male supremacist group, recently convinced U.S. District Judge Gray Miller in Texas that that the male-only draft was unconstitutional. In his ruling, Miller found that the place of women in the Armed Forces is settled, since women are now allowed in combat and make up to 20 percent of […]
The Remarkable Mileva Marić
In October of 1900, a young Serbian woman named Mileva Marić was at her family home in southern Hungary when a letter arrived from her lover—a former classmate at the Zurich Polytechnic named Albert Einstein. “I’m so lucky to have found you,” he wrote, “a creature who is my equal, and who is as strong and independent as I am! I feel alone with everyone else except you.”
Beyond the CRADLE: Working Parents Deserve a Better Paid Leave Program
We need a national paid leave program that is effective and sustainable, that will reach those who need it the most and that will not threaten other key areas of support for working families. But the recently-proposed CRADLE Act fails to meet any of those criteria.
How Trump’s 2020 Budget Hurts Hungry Women and Families
Trump’s budget proposes deep cuts to programs which provide necessary and life-saving services to low-income Americans, including attempts to decimate food stamps. Those impacted most will be, overwhelmingly, women and their children.
The Only Girl On The Yankees
I was the only girl on that Little League team and the only minority, and I was determined not to be a benchwarmer.
LISTEN: Amber Tamblyn on Her Definition of Feminism and Her Era of Ignition
“I do not hate men at all,” Amber Tamblyn confesses in her latest book. “I am critical of them.” In an exclusive clip for Ms. readers from the audiobook, Tamblyn sounds off on “good men” and her definition of feminism in the era of #MeToo.
Let’s Make Herstory: It’s Time to Ratify the Equal Rights Amendment
Each and every one of us has the power to change the world. And I know how we are going to do it: We are going to finally win the nearly 100-year fight to put women’s equality in the U.S. Constitution.
During Childbirth, Enduring the Patriarchy Was the Hardest Part
After nine months of misogynistic language from doctors and nurses, it’s easy to forget that you’re the decision-maker about your own body.