Women from across Kentucky are coming together to advocate for amending Section 145 of Kentucky’s Constitution and restoring voting rights to those disenfranchised by felony convictions. The event, ...

Kansas has a new mural in its Statehouse honoring women who campaigned for voting rights for decades before the 1920 ...

This column is the final one for celebrating January’s Annual Women’s History Month and it again features some notable women who helped make our nation and our world a better ...

The Women’s Suffrage National Monument, which will be the Mall’s first dedicated to women’s history, overcame congressional and other roadblocks.

“Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” For nearly a century, those 24 words have been the subject of a ...

(AP Photo, File) Alice Paul, seated second from left, sews the 36th star on a banner, celebrating the ratification of the women’s suffrage amendment in August 1920. The 36th star represented Tennessee ...

which granted women the right to vote. The ERA, if formally recognized as the 28th Amendment, would make gender equality explicit under the Constitution. President Joe Biden on Friday declared ...

Charles Curtis, a Kansas Republican. Paul's original amendment text stated: “Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.

The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when leading suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted ...