True equality will only have been achieved when women are punished as harshly as men for their misdemeanours, says Lisa Jardine.

See a gallery of photos of 120 years of women’s protest signs, from suffragettes in the early 1900s to modern-day protests around the world.

Celebrate these historic change-makers in honor of Women's History Month.

Back in 1974, a small ad placed in a Women's Liberation publication started a movement. Fed up with the media and advertising industry's sexist representation of women, a group of women artists met up in London to express their discontent, which they quickly turned into a group called the See Red Women's Workshop and a barrage of silkscreened signs and posters paraded across the U.K. in both "peace camps" and the streets. Their posters from 1974 to 1990, though, which have just been published in a collection by Four Corner Books, should not be limited to the period in which they were made: slogans like "Our Bodies Our Choice" are more relevant than ever these days, and increasingly in use. And, thanks in part to the group's inspiration from black and chicana women's groups in the U.S., they're also surprisingly intersectional for the time, acknowledging that the campaign for women's rights is inextricably linked to issues of racism, housing, and income inequality, which the liberals in Britain were then tackling head-on under Margaret Thatcher's conservative administration. (Even the Workshop's most explicit signs—"Media & the Men Are Our Enemies," for example—don't seem nearly as out-there when you take into consideration that the posh were reportedly wearing buttons reading "I am rich.") Take a look back at their early posters, and get inspiration for your own on this International Women's Day, here.

Marchers will gather at noon Jan. 21 on the Library Mall, proceed to Capitol.

From The New Yorker’s archive, pieces by Charles Bethea, Jill Lepore, Margaret Talbot, Kelefa Sanneh, Jeffrey Toobin, and Helena Huntington Smith on the historical legal battle over women's reproductive health and abortion in America.

The photography and art of black women in the 1960s and 1970s created a new space of recognition. These images of black women presented an opportunity to both celebrate and immortalize their contributions while making clear the necessity of black women’s voices to movements for equality.

By Tammy L. Brown, Associate Professor of Black World Studies, History, and Global and Intercultural Studies, Miami UniversityMy 94-year-old great-aunt, Paralee Wilmer — we call her Aunty Lee — voted for the first time after moving to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1944. Born to no-nonsense, small farmers in Millers Ferry, Alabama, and the youngest daughter of 12 children, Aunty Lee was

"I started doing this work because there were so few resources and recourses for us, which is why it cuts deep to hear sisters, who are largely responsible for my visibility, saying the current iteration of the #MeToo movement isn’t for them." Nearly 12 months ago activist and Me Too movement founder, Tarana Burke’s life was turned

Uzo Aduba, Katie Holmes, and Ieshia Evans reenact the activist moments that mattered over the past century—and three prominent thinkers discuss the progress we've made.

It actually hurts see this image. Although there’s so much power behind it, there’s also quite a lot of sadness behind it. This beautiful queen who is heavily pregnant had no choice but to step ou…