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Vox’s coverage of the gender equality movement.

Culture
The 50-year struggle to get Best Casting into the OscarsThe 50-year struggle to get Best Casting into the Oscars
Culture

It’s one of the few female-dominated niches in Hollywood. They finally made it to the Academy Awards.

By Constance Grady
Culture
How Epstein’s biggest financial client shaped millennial teen cultureHow Epstein’s biggest financial client shaped millennial teen culture
Culture

Victoria’s Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch taught a generation of young people what was desirable.

By Constance Grady
Culture
How the left taught the right to hate white womenHow the left taught the right to hate white women
Culture

The “AWFUL” moniker is the latest way to express disdain for “annoying” women.

By Constance Grady
Culture
Grok’s nonconsensual porn problem is part of a long, gross legacyGrok’s nonconsensual porn problem is part of a long, gross legacy
Culture

Elon Musk claims tech needs a “spicy mode” to dominate. Is he right?

By Constance Grady
Culture
Erika Kirk and Marjorie Taylor Greene are playing with the same archetypeErika Kirk and Marjorie Taylor Greene are playing with the same archetype
Culture

How ambitious is a MAGA woman allowed to be?

By Constance Grady
Culture
American women want to opt outAmerican women want to opt out
Culture

More want to leave the country than ever before. That’s not the only way they’re escaping.

By Constance Grady
Even Better
Why are single men so miserable?Why are single men so miserable?
Even Better

When men lack the skills to build intimacy, their relationships — and well-being — suffer.

By Allie Volpe
Culture
A MAGA influencer says there’s no space for her in women’s media. Is she right?A MAGA influencer says there’s no space for her in women’s media. Is she right?
Culture

The weird lie animating the right-wing womanosphere.

By Constance Grady
The scandalous literary classic we’ve never stopped arguing about
Culture

The novel published 70 years ago that still explains America.

By Constance Grady
Culture
Sydney Sweeney and the unsettling legacy of the blonde bombshellSydney Sweeney and the unsettling legacy of the blonde bombshell
Culture

How Marilyn Monroe and Jean Harlow explain the star’s bizarre jeans controversy.

By Constance Grady
Even Better
For years, women complained that this medical procedure was painful. Doctors are finally listening.For years, women complained that this medical procedure was painful. Doctors are finally listening.
Even Better

How a common birth control method became the center of a reckoning.

By Allie Volpe
Vox Book Club
How America’s ideal woman got jackedHow America’s ideal woman got jacked
Vox Book Club

Muscles are a symbol of strength. So who’s allowed to be strong?

By Constance Grady
Future Perfect
The stunning reversal of humanity’s oldest biasThe stunning reversal of humanity’s oldest bias
Future Perfect

Everyone wants to be a girl dad now.

By Bryan Walsh
Culture
Why are men shaving off their eyelashes?Why are men shaving off their eyelashes?
Culture

Men’s beauty standards are getting increasingly bizarre.

By Constance Grady
Culture
J.K. Rowling’s transphobia: A historyJ.K. Rowling’s transphobia: A history
Culture

An exhausting — if not exhaustive — timeline of J.K. Rowling’s transphobia.

By Aja Romano
Politics
Why are men so much more right-wing than women now?Why are men so much more right-wing than women now?
Politics

Don’t blame Joe Rogan too much — one theory says that the roots of this gender gap go back decades.

By Maia Mindel
Today, Explained podcast
What happened to the bestselling young white man?What happened to the bestselling young white man?
Podcast
Today, Explained podcast

How women took over literary fiction.

By Miles Bryan and Noel King
Culture
The strange fascination with Jordon Hudson and Bill Belichick, explainedThe strange fascination with Jordon Hudson and Bill Belichick, explained
Culture

Why are we mad at the football coach’s girlfriend?

By Constance Grady
Culture
The culture warriors who say Harvey Weinstein is innocentThe culture warriors who say Harvey Weinstein is innocent
Culture

Candace Owens and Joe Rogan are the latest frontier of the Me Too backlash.

By Constance Grady
The unspoken rules of MAGA womanhood
Culture

How Kristi Noem and Karoline Leavitt offer two visions of conservative femininity.

By Constance Grady
Culture
The strange link between Trump’s tariffs and incel ideologyThe strange link between Trump’s tariffs and incel ideology
Culture

Meet the lonely men who think the tariffs will get them girlfriends.

By Constance Grady
Culture
Purity culture is back. Of course its latest victim is a teen girl.Purity culture is back. Of course its latest victim is a teen girl.
Culture

Bush-era purity culture is so back.

By Constance Grady
Explain It to Me
The only generation not in a sex recessionThe only generation not in a sex recession
Explain It to Me

It’s not just in the movies. Gen X women are having the best sex of their lives.

By Jonquilyn Hill
Culture
He was created to be a bloody monster. Now he’s an internet hero.He was created to be a bloody monster. Now he’s an internet hero.
Culture

How American Psycho became men’s favorite sigma icon.

By Constance Grady
My nail-biting quest for confidence
Even Better

I wanted to be confident. Then I started having doubts.

By Rachel Sugar
Culture
Neil Gaiman and the problem of faux feministsNeil Gaiman and the problem of faux feminists
Culture

What happens to supposedly “enlightened” men in the post-Me Too era?

By Constance Grady
Men are struggling. Here’s how your philanthropy can help.
Future Perfect

We can invest in men’s well-being without undermining women.

By Celia Ford
Trump 2.0, explained
The not-so-subtle message of Trump’s disturbing Cabinet picksThe not-so-subtle message of Trump’s disturbing Cabinet picks
Trump 2.0, explained

An alarming number of those poised to be in the president-elect’s inner circle are accused of sexual misconduct.

By Constance Grady
Trump 2.0, explained
Following Trump’s victory, some women consider swearing off menFollowing Trump’s victory, some women consider swearing off men
Trump 2.0, explained

4B, the protest movement that boycotts men, explained.

By Constance Grady
Culture
Gen Z is shocked by Trump’s Access Hollywood video. We should be, too.Gen Z is shocked by Trump’s Access Hollywood video. We should be, too.
Culture

Let’s not forget Trump’s decades of documented sexual misconduct.

By Constance Grady
Culture
How feminism fell from favorHow feminism fell from favor
Culture

Policies boosting gender equality are popular. The word “feminist” is not.

By Constance Grady
Culture
7 questions — and zero conspiracy theories — about the allegations against Sean “Diddy” Combs7 questions — and zero conspiracy theories — about the allegations against Sean “Diddy” Combs
Culture

Everything we know about the growing case against the music mogul.

By Lavanya Ramanathan and Anna North
How Republicans became the party of raunch
Culture

The right thinks that hot girls can “kill woke.” What?

By Constance Grady
Culture
What do we do about Alice Munro now?What do we do about Alice Munro now?
Culture

Reckoning with the late author and Nobel Prize winner’s complicity in her daughter’s abuse.

By Constance Grady
Policy
We deserve a more nuanced conversation about working momsWe deserve a more nuanced conversation about working moms
Policy

The “motherhood penalty” is more complicated than you think.

By Rachel Cohen Booth
I’m pregnant. I’m traveling. I’m terrified.
Life

My family reunion is in South Carolina. Essential care for my high-risk pregnancy is not.

By Aubrey Hirsch
Culture
What this summer’s age-gap escapist fantasies are missing about romance and middle ageWhat this summer’s age-gap escapist fantasies are missing about romance and middle age
Culture

In her new novel All Fours, Miranda July romps where The Idea of You fears to tread.

By Constance Grady
Culture
Leaked video reveals the lie of Miss Universe’s empowerment promiseLeaked video reveals the lie of Miss Universe’s empowerment promise
Culture

“The trans women, the women with husbands, divorced women ... They can compete but they cannot win.”

By Constance Grady
Culture
The Idea of You — and the idea of age gapsThe Idea of You — and the idea of age gaps
Culture

From hit movies to viral essays, the discourse is rarely about the people inside the relationships.

By Constance Grady
Culture
Harvey Weinstein’s overturned conviction, explained by a lawyerHarvey Weinstein’s overturned conviction, explained by a lawyer
Culture

A public defender on the judge at the first Weinstein trial: “He was behaving like a prosecutor.”

By Constance Grady