More Black women have been elected to state legislatures over the last decade, creating a pipeline to Congress and other ...

EMILY’s List’s endorsement of Illinois’ lieutenant governor is its first involving 2026 U.S. Senate candidates nationally.

WASHINGTON — Eleven Senate Democratic women — and multiple Democratic men, including the Senate’s second-ranking Democrat — called for Sen. Al Franken to resign Wednesday, after a sixth woman came ...

Rep. Jasmine Crockett criticizes President Trump for obsessing over two Black women in Congress, calling out IQ remarks and ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KABC) -- History will be made in Sacramento this week. Toni Atkins will become the first woman and first lesbian to hold the top job in the California state Senate. The San Diego ...

A national organization committed to supporting Democratic Pro-Choice Women has offered its endorsement to six lawmakers ...

WASHINGTON — A fifth woman accused Roy Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, on Monday of making sexual or romantic advances toward her when she was a teenager, as senior Republicans in ...

Japan’s first female prime minister marks a historic breakthrough as global gender gaps in political leadership persist, ...

Cori Bush, a St. Louis, Missouri, native, did not grow up thinking she would become a member of Congress. She is a formerly homeless Black woman who faced domestic violence and became a single mom ...

At the state Capitol today, lawmakers moved to close a gap in Michigan law that could leave victims of abuse even more at ...