Over the weekend cities around the world celebrated World Pride. Plenty of celebrities and politicians showed their support, attending parades and parties across the country. Bay Area native Senator Kamala Harris was in San Francisco—along with California governor Gavin Newsom and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi—for the occasion. And her outfit, an oversize denim…
Read more
Democrat Elizabeth Warren just made a big first step toward formally announcing her candidacy for President of the United States in 2020. The U.S. senator from Massachusetts filed papers on Monday (December 31) to form an exploratory presidential committee, the first of the rumored Democratic candidates to do so. This move allows her to legally…
Read more
Results are still coming in from last week’s midterm elections and yes, women are continuing to break barriers. While there are still contested races in Georgia and Florida where candidates like Stacey Abrams and Andrew Gillum are awaiting their fates, Monday night brought the good news that the Arizona Senate race finally came to a…
Read more
The U.S. is one of 13 countries in the world where maternal mortality rates are worse than they were two decades ago. And that alarming statistic hits one group of women the hardest. For women of color, pregnancy and childbirth are often a matter of life and death. The risk of death from pregnancy-related causes…
Read moreOn Tuesday, Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Il) announced she’s expecting her second child, a baby girl, later this year. An important announcement in and of itself, it becomes even more so when you consider that Duckworth will now become the first sitting senator to give birth while in office. Though really, this is just the sort…
Read more“Silence Breakers” are celebrated as Time magazine’s 2017 Person of the Year, #MeToo has gone viral, and countless women are courageously sharing their stories. Sexual harassment has come out of the shadows, and Americans have opened a larger conversation about sexual assault. But survivors who seek justice continue to encounter an often hostile legal system…
Read more
