Social media gave feminism unprecedented reach, but visibility isn’t the same as power, and greater access may have led to misunderstanding and backlash.

The outcry and activism of the 2010s – itself enabled by earlier generations of feminists – brought us to this moment. But if the Trump administration has its way, opposing forces will prevail ...

While Amoruso has clarified that you don’t need to be a corporate leader to be a girlboss, the idea that hard work equals ...

One of my favorite aspects of modern American culture is our ambition to improve others’ outcomes and find ways to make life fair for everyone. We may bicker about the methodology, but wanting ...

This question originally appeared on Quora. Answer by Gayle Laakmann McDowell, founder and CEO of CareerCup, and the author of Cracking the Coding Interview and The Google Resume: There are roughly ...

Because economic exploitation and gender oppression are deeply intertwined. The sexist notion that caregiving and domestic labor are “women’s work” is awfully convenient for capitalists: If a woman’s ...

You can criticize feminism all day. But the moment women entered the workforce, paid taxes, and built companies, society changed permanently. Was that cultural chaos, or economic genius? #Feminism #Eq ...

Readers of Reason who happened to see a review of my book Freedom Feminism by Sharon Presley might conclude that I am a hidebound reactionary—someone with views antithetical to liberty. As Presley ...

In New York City last month, I was walking down Columbus Avenue when I stopped short in front of a billboard for the high-end fitness chain Equinox. It pictured a shouting, half-naked young woman, her ...

Cathy Young is a contributing editor at Reason magazine. Was 2014 the year feminism won the gender war, or jumped the shark? One could say it has had a pretty good year, with celebrity endorsements ...

Last week, Alex Ruth Bertulis-Fernandes, a 23-year-old art student from London, got a word of advice from a male instructor: "Dial down the feminism." She responded as any good artist would: with art.

Feminism, lately, is having an identity crisis. It’s an internal struggle that goes back decades, maybe even to the beginning of feminism. Its latest battlefield is Beyoncé, whose every move leaves a ...