Australia’s earliest female political aspirants were staunchly independent, setting up a tradition that would remain more ...

On July 19, 1848, three hundred men and women gathered in Seneca Falls, New York for a convention that began a movement. They discussed the social, civil, and religious rights and condition of women.

This story was originally reported by Grace Panetta of The 19th. Meet Grace and read more of her reporting on gender, ...

Michael Bernard Bell, 54, was pronounced dead at 6:25 p.m. after receiving a lethal injection at Florida State Prison near ...

In recent decades, more Michigan governors have been homegrown, but the state's first 17 governors were all born elsewhere.

Rep. Kevin Kiley spoke out as California faces potential funding loss and DOJ lawsuit after refusing to comply with Title IX ...

South Africa’s first Black female beer brewery owner is aiming to shake up the industry.

“I wanted to make sure that being the first Black female to own a brewery in South Africa, that I’m not the first and the last,” she said.

Suriname will have a female president for the first time. The country's parliament, which chooses the president, elected Dr. Jennifer Geerlings-Simons on Sunday. Geerlings-Simons, a congresswoman ...

Lawmakers elected Jennifer Geerlings-Simons as Suriname's first woman president on Sunday, after her party won the most seats in legislative elections in May.