During the 1970s, television reflected a profound cultural shift. As the Women’s Liberation Movement reshaped American society, the small screen began to feature female characters who were no longer ...

Women have come a long way in the past century in terms of legal rights, although reality has often fallen short of legal promises. Women earned a constitutional right to vote nationwide in 1920, for ...

Before cell phones, social media, and constant screens, life was captured in simple, spontaneous photos taken right in the moment. The 1970s left behind images that spark deep nostalgia, not only ...

Still from Gina Birch, "Three Minute Scream" (1977) (image courtesy the artist) LONDON — Something like a piercing siren or a baby’s cry — persistent and unsettling — reverberates through Tate Britain ...

Learn about Emily Card, Jeanne Hubbard, Stephanie Lipscomb, and Rosemary Reed—four women whose stories about financial independence demonstrate the importance of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of ...

The views and opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer. New York Representative Bella Abzug was the most recognizable woman in politics in the 1970s. Even so, she is largely ...

Basia Haszlakiewicz admits that when her daughter, Los Angeles-based filmmaker Olivia Kuan, told her she wanted to make a documentary about her time as a football player in the 1970s, she was ...

During the 1970s, women held anywhere from 18 to 37 seats in Connecticut’s 187-seat legislature, wielding no more than a fifth of voting power. It took until 2018 for there to be at least 60 women ...