WASHINGTON — For the first time ever, American car companies will soon be required to test vehicle safety using dummies that are representative of women. Limited time: Save 25% on NBC News ...

With all due respect, the past is the past. I love Roxanne Shante, Salt N’ Pepa, MC Lyte, Queen Latifah, Lil Kim, Foxy Brown, Da Brat, Eve, Lauryn Hill, and Missy Elliott. But the following list is ...

Over the past few years, amidst the reshuffling of male creative directors at many of fashion’s most important houses, a question has emerged again and again—just where are all the female designers?

Some of the most famous ships in history have sailed with female names on their hull. Queen Elizabeth. Mary Celeste. Lady Washington. Even now, seafarers still refer to vessels as "she." It doesn't ...

When I walked into work last year on my birthday, there was an envelope with my name written in cursive on my desk. I was less than three months into a new job and hadn't announced my birthday. Being ...

Democrats wanted to end the electability debate. After Vice President Kamala Harris’s defeat, a conversation that has frustrated and foiled two generations of female candidates rages on. By Lisa Lerer ...

A rev(O)lutionary new study may have cracked the carnal code of the female orgasm. According to researchers at the University of Essex, it’s down to something women can do — not men — that makes them ...

Clarification: This article has been updated to include a clarifying statement from the Marine Corps regarding the use of mixed-gender drill instructor teams. The Marine Corps has hit its goal of ...

In 2016, Hillary Clinton was a former secretary of state and senator running against the politically inexperienced real-estate tycoon Donald Trump. She lost. People would vote for a woman, the ...

We often hear the word “alpha” used to describe the pecking order in wolf packs or a man who likes to be in charge. However, “alpha females” are everywhere—and we’re all better for it. Yet, alpha ...

You’ve likely heard of the male gaze, the concept coined by British film theorist Laura Mulvey in her 1973 essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” In her writing, she notes that the “male gaze ...

The presence of a line attractor suggested a mechanism to stably maintain population activity in a particular state during interruptions or pauses in male mating behaviour. To test this hypothesis, we ...