Those five famous words from the Declaration of Independence sound simple enough: all men are created equal. For nearly 250 years, the U.S. has leaned on that founding proposition. In theory, its ...

For years, the antiabortion movement had Roe v. Wade in its crosshairs — so it seemed that the reversal of Roe would be the ultimate victory for Americans who oppose abortion. But when the Supreme ...

Social scientists and gender theorists have long debated the causes of achievement disparities between males and females in certain competencies. For example, if we find (as we do) that most engineers ...

Many people, including some high-profile celebrities, have been arguing that the concept of equity is the same as equality of outcome. According to dictionary definitions and previous research, ...

I write the day after Woman's Equality Day. I'm sitting here at Blue Shutters Beach in beautiful Charlestown, R.I. There are kids and families all around me. I came camping here, a single woman with ...