Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Courtesy of Carl Timpone) A teacher who wouldn’t cast her as a princess in a kindergarten skit shaped Kimberlé Crenshaw’s views.

Growing up in Canton, Ohio, legal scholar Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw was encouraged to call out conditions that were unfair or inexplicable. It was a form of "talking back" that continued into her ...

She coined the term ‘intersectionality’ and helped to develop critical race theory, now her life’s work is under attack by Washington’s war on ‘woke’. As her memoir is published, the legal scholar ...

There is no doubt about the harm — both mental and physical — the manosphere has historically inflicted on women and girls. From harassment campaigns to the legitimization of misogyny-driven violence, ...

Editor’s note: This story is part of KQED’s Youth Takeover. Throughout the week, we’re publishing content by high school students from all over the Bay Area. Each of us is shaped by a unique mix of ...

The reason why diversity is so important for tech teams is because difference in opinions and life experience can lead to more innovative ideas, as well as ensure technology is developed with features ...

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The National Organization for Women was seen as a radical organization in the 1970s because of its valiant fight to protect reproductive rights for women. But even in those early days, NOW was not ...

Children constitute more than a third of the world’s population and ‘children’ as a heterogenous group consists of all other marginalised groups. Nonetheless, theorizations on the limits of social ...

The intersectional framework has been one of the most important contributions to feminist studies. It has since travelled outside the United States in the last three decades and has also gone through ...