Gender

Kukuli Velarde — a Peruvian-born, Philadelphia-based artist — has a first major show in her adopted home town.

"You are, as a female, really having to stand up, and maybe sometimes stand up a little taller and be noticed," said one superintendent.

Two weeks before Election Day, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez was speaking on stage during a rally at Cedar Crest Colle ...

Guests: Kelly Ditmar, Dawn Teele, Anthea Butler, Madeleine Deane This week’s midterm elections were record-bre ...

WHYY's Mary Cummings-Jordan talks with Bishop Patricia Davenport about her new position within the Southeastern Pa. Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Tuesday’s election has made Delaware’s General Assembly a more diverse legislature. In a state that’s 22 percent Afr ...

Pennsylvania will send a record-setting four women to Congress next year, up from the current total of zero. Is the "Year of the Woman" here again?

Pennsylvania didn't have a single woman representing the state in Washington. After this Election Day, four will head to Congress.

Catherine Guthrie already knew a lot about breast cancer when she found a lump on her left breast at age 38.

Like most midterm elections, the 2018 campaign is also a referendum on the incumbent president.

A new NPR-Ipsos polls show the nation deeply divided on sexual assault and harassment.

Guests: Heath Fogg Davis, Leonore Carpenter, Nadia Dowshen The Trump administration is considering legally defini ...

The Philadelphia Folklore Project is celebrating that lineage with a performance on Sunday, Oct 28, at the Annenberg Center called Soul Songs: Inspiring Women of Klezmer.

"It should have happened a long time ago, but the next best time is now."

A memo that has reportedly been circulating at the Department of Health and Human Services aims to narrow the federal government's definition of "sex" under Title IX