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The pandemic is a larger example of a pattern: When unexpected family needs arise, mothers step in.

The grisly death of a farmer, whose attack was streamed online, has shocked China, with many asking why the legal system failed to protect her.

Ms. Harris, the daughter of an Indian mother and Jamaican father, has risen higher in the country’s leadership than any woman ever before her.

Outraged by a court decision to ban nearly all abortions, tens of thousands of women took to the streets of Poland’s capital on Friday, culminating a week of big protests across the country.

The Court of Master Sommeliers confers high honors, but many women candidates say they’ve paid a steep price.

In the courtroom, more than a dozen victims gave wrenching testimony about how he manipulated and sexually abused them.

Female passengers said they were pulled from a Sydney-bound flight in Doha and given a medically invasive exam to see if they had recently given birth after an abandoned newborn was found in an airport bathroom.

In 2016, white women in the suburbs helped deliver President Trump the White House. Four years later, they could be the ones to take it away from him.

Her strong faith, embrace of motherhood and career accomplishments have made her an icon for the right. So why aren’t more girls from conservative Christian traditions encouraged to be like her?

On the first day of the election-season confirmation hearings, Democrats portrayed Judge Amy Coney Barrett as a threat to Americans’ health care coverage as Republicans charged anti-Catholic bias.

Democrats will portray President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee as an ideologue, while Republicans will paint her as an accomplished working mother.

Judge Barrett is a new kind of icon for some, one they have not seen before in American cultural and political life.

Improvements in gender equality in the workplace may be another casualty of the coronavirus, as women find their place in the work force more at risk.

“Our Bodies, Their Battlefields,” by Christina Lamb, a British foreign correspondent, provides one of the first exhaustive examinations of rape as a weapon of war.

Quite apart from the politics surrounding Justice Ginsburg’s death and the fight over her replacement, women of all ages are feeling the loss of a role model.