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She wants to make it help 50 million women around the world get jobs and start their own businesses. Critics are waiting for more details.

Anthropologists have long documented the differences in the extent of sexual coercion — including rape — in different human societies. But is it a vestige of evolutionary history, indicative of cultural activity or governed by power dynamics between females and males?

In the early 20th century, Chinese athletes in the U.S. sometimes found social liberation on the basketball courts.

Dorothy Pitman Hughes, a pioneering Black feminist, child welfare advocate and lifelong community activist who toured the country speaking with Gloria Steinem in the 1970s, has died.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with UnidosUS Action Fund Executive Director Rafael Collazo about the Biden administration's outreach efforts with the Hispanic and African American communities.

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Andrea Guerrero, executive director of Alliance San Diego, a community empowerment organization, about the allegations of abuse against the U.S. Border Patrol agency.

Monday's 11-minute flight featured the first all-female crew since 1963. Here's what else to know about it.

In the cookbook, author Bobby Hicks takes readers back to the 1800s with recipes like lightning cake and lobster thermidor, through to the 1960s with gelatin rainbow cake and boeuf bourguignon.

As Chopped host Ted Allen puts it, "People are already eating snout-to-tale, leaves-to-roots. ... Chefs are getting people to eat kale and drink rotted juices. Dirt, rocks and mud just follow."

Democrat Gary Chambers Jr. is running to unseat Louisiana Sen. John Kennedy. Chambers follows in the footsteps of other politicians who have used attention-grabbing ads to up their name recognition.