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Martin do Nascimento/CalMattersForty-one percent of lawmakers are women and 10% identify as out-LGBTQ, which means California will become the first state to achieve proportional representation for LGBTQ residents, according to Equality California. -
Rahul Lal/CalMattersWhile female candidates still face challenges, voters could elect a record number of women to the state Legislature in November. The roster of female lawmakers could rise to 45 of the 120 seats, according to a CalMatters analysis.
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A state law that requires California companies to have women on their boards is facing a legal challenge in Los Angeles, where a trial concluded Wednesday. Since the law passed in 2018, the share of women on boards has increased from 15.5% to 29%. -
Name one of the groundbreaking women of history--without Marie Curie. It can be hard, can't it? There's Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear鈥� -
Reshma Saujani is all about empowering females to do great work in the world, unencumbered by traditional barriers. She founded Girls Who Code to attract鈥� -
Debra Gwartney knows a few tough women in her own family. And that's probably why she's been drawn to the story of Narcissa Whitman, the first white woman鈥� -
Discussions of reproductive rights for women in America often quickly devolve and divide into "pro-choice" and "pro-life" sides. The concept of鈥� -
It was not so long ago that the only human females in the Arab world were children and married women. But that is changing, despite continued pressure to鈥� -
It's frequently true that women who return to work after having children feel some concerns about the effect on the kids. Pamela Lenehan's book My Mother,鈥� -
As Ashland, Ore., became a railroad center after 1890, women seized on an unusual opportunity to prosper. Inexpensive vacant lots between the town and the鈥�
