Supreme Court makes it tougher for women to exercise choice
The Massachusetts policy aimed to protect women as they accessed reproductive health care against a backdrop of harassment and even physical attacks from anti-choice protesters.
Supreme Court allows corporations to deny birth control coverage
The Supreme Court ruled that family-owned corporations can use religious objections to opt out of the Affordable Care Act requirement that they cover contraceptives for women.
Author, poet, activist Maya Angelou dies at age 86
Angelou, a Renaissance woman and cultural pioneer, died Wednesday morning at her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, her son, Guy B. Johnson, said in a statement.
White House tackles college sexual assault
A new report released by the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault says that one in five college women suffers sexual assault.
Mothers Day flowers nice but equal pay better
A total of 4.7 million moms and their families would see an increase in wages. That's one fifth of all working moms and their families who would benefit.
"Kill-A-Gay and Flog-A-Woman" laws protested at Beverly Hills hotel
The law effective May 1, in the Southeast Asian country of Brunei, provides for fines and prison sentences for gay men and lesbians, and women who have abortions.
President Obama orders stronger federal equal pay rules
The president signed the order in a dramatic White House ceremony as Lilly Ledbetter stood beside him; it marked Equal Pay Day, the day that marks how long a woman must work into 2014 to earn the same as a man did in 2013.
Today in women's history: Abigail Adams attacked sexism, "fomented rebellion"
On March 31, 1776, Abigail Adams urged the Continental Congress and her husband, John Adams, to consider women's rights.
Racial discrimination leads to increased deaths of black women from breast cancer
Although breast cancer survival rates increased overall between 1990 and 2010, white women benefited far more than did black women.
Today in women's history: Coalition of Labor Union Women founded
On March 24, 1974, the Coalition of Labor Union Women was founded by some 3,000 women trade unionists from 58 labor organizations at a meeting in Chicago.
