Gender equality was supposed to reduce gender stratification and segregation in academic and professional pursuits. Instead, ...

Women work longer and per hour earn a third of what men are paid, in figures that have changed little in 35 years, UN report shows “Gender inequality is one of the most entrenched and significant ...

Although largely forgotten, a little-known Tennessee school once powerfully influenced the U.S. Civil Rights movement and its leaders, while preserving Southern Appalachian culture. Its inspiring ...

To test the value of AI, we ran an experiment alongside our annual impact performance assessment run between May and June of this year. As part of this assessment, we use a rating scale (1-4, with ...

The second in a series of retrospectives on National Academies’ reports and activities related to climate science. As our understanding of climate change grew over the last 50 years, efforts to ...

Ten years after their Supreme Court win, some veterans of the marriage equality battles see a shared struggle for transgender rights. By Amy Harmon and Pooja Salhotra Across the country, many ...

CIA Director John Ratcliffe on Wednesday said in a statement that the agency had obtained “a body of credible evidence [that] indicates Iran’s Nuclear Program has been severely damaged” by recent ...

House and Senate Democrats on Tuesday reintroduced the Equality Act, a landmark civil rights bill that would make sexual orientation and gender identity protected classes. The measure, which would ...

Section 1. Purpose. A bedrock principle of the United States is that all citizens are treated equally under the law. This principle guarantees equality of opportunity, not equal outcomes. It promises ...

TREATING AMERICANS EQUALLY: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order eliminating the use of disparate-impact liability in various contexts to ensure equal treatment under the law.