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Byline: Monica Hesse Every time I write about transgender issues, I get angry emails from conservative readers informing me that the left talks way too much about transgender issues. These [...]

Byline: Patrick Svitek Bernie Moreno, the Republican nominee for Senate in the battleground state of Ohio, is facing criticism from Democrats and a prominent fellow Republican over comments he made [...]

Byline: Maeve Reston BUCKS COUNTY, Pa. -- More than a week after Kamala Harris's debut as the likely Democratic presidential nominee, the buzz around her candidacy is still fresh here [...]

Byline: Kathleen Parker COLUMBIA, S.C. -- In South Carolina, what Republican men want, Republican men get. This month, primary voters ousted the only three GOP women in the state senate [...]

Byline: Karen Tumulty Practically from the moment freshman Sen. Katie Boyd Britt began delivering the Republican response to President Biden's State of the Union address, it was clear where things [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider; Laura Vozzella; Scott Clement; Emily Guskin Abortion has surged as a key issue for women and Democrats for the Nov. 7 legislative elections in Virginia, the [...]

Byline: Alyssa Rosenberg A change -- specifically, a changing table -- might be coming to the House of Representatives. Yes, it took 234 years for male lawmakers to pursue accommodations [...]

Byline: Michele L. Swers In the discussions over the incoming leadership changes in Congress, one first has been overlooked: The chairs and ranking members of the House and Senate Appropriations [...]

Byline: Karen Attiah Pour one out for us in Texas. We're really hurting this week. So this newsletter is a little on the short side. ... The state voted overwhelmingly [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin In the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling to overturn abortion rights, we know three things: 1) The decision is hugely unpopular; 2) abortion bans will have [...]

Byline: Meagan Flynn; Karina Elwood; Laura Vozzella; Jim Morrison Republican voters in Virginia opted Tuesday to send two women to take on Democratic Reps. Elaine Luria and Abigail Spanberger in [...]

Byline: Stacie Taranto Emily's List, the powerful political action committee (PAC) that backs Democratic women who support legal abortion, recently announced that it would no longer endorse Sen. Kyrsten Sinema [...]

Byline: Paul Kane;Felicia Sonmez Rep. Liz Cheney, the top-ranking woman among House Republicans, said Wednesday that her party needs to do a better job of recruiting female candidates and winning [...]

Byline: Caitlin Gibson First the spotlight was on the men, trailing them as they fell: Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Charlie Rose, Al Franken, a seemingly endless parade of famous names. [...]

Byline: Jennifer Rubin Michelle Cottle writes about the GOP's gender gap problem: An unnamed GOP strategist addressing the GOP's gender problem is quoted as saying, 'I don't know what to [...]

Byline: Karen Attiah Paul Kagame, the former general turned president of post-genocide Rwanda, is waging war again. His regime's new enemy is no warlord, or experienced opposition politician, but rather, [...]

Byline: Eugene Scott Ever since the bombshell sexual harassment allegations involving Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein made headlines, there has been a push to have men step up and help change [...]

Byline: Michele L. Swers;Danielle M. Thomsen The all-male group of Republican senators working to craft a compromise health-care bill has created a public relations problem for the GOP. With no [...]

Byline: Gregory S. Schneider RICHMOND -- Kelly Fowler's daughter was born on the day Barack Obama was inaugurated in 2009, but this year's birthday was a downer. Fowler and her [...]

Byline: David Weigel;Jenna Portnoy Alex Ellison, a senior at Boston's Emerson College, was thrilled by what she saw at the women's marches. She called her uncle, and Rep. Keith Ellison [...]

Byline: Jerry Markon;Robert Costa;Emma Brown President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday selected two prominent Republican women for Cabinet-level positions, adding diversity to an inner circle that was already coming under fire [...]

Byline: Amanda Carpenter The Outrage Machine is a regular opinion column by voices from the left and right on Washington and politics. The other night my 3-year old son brought [...]

Byline: Peggy McGlone A week after the highest of all glass ceilings proved indestructible, a congressional panel finds the country needs a national museum dedicated to showcasing the contributions and [...]

Belva Ann Lockwood is not spinning in her grave. I went there and checked. Some other women went there, too, weaving between the headstones of Congressional Cemetery in the nation's [...]

Byline: Paul Waldman With only five weeks to election day, we may have reached the point at which there will be a new damaging revelation about Donald Trump nearly every [...]

Byline: Amber Phillips Hillary Clinton doesn't willingly talk much about the hurdles she faces as a woman in politics that her male opponents don't have to. But in an interview [...]

PHILADELPHIA -- On Tuesday, Democrats nominated a woman to be president for the first time. On Thursday night, Hillary Clinton will accept that nomination. In between, women at the Democratic [...]

Byline: Aili Mari Tripp When I went to Uganda in 1992, I was interested in understanding why the country had so many women in top government positions and why it [...]

Byline: Greg Jaffe COLUMBIA, S.C. -- Worshiping here at the Shandon Baptist Church, just outside the Army's Fort Jackson, Katie Smith has heard about the idea endorsed by some GOP [...]

Byline: Janell Ross With the United States inching forward (slowly) when it comes to the number of women serving in high office, something interesting happened Thursday during Hillary Rodham Clinton's [...]

Byline: Katie Zezima PHOENIX -- Sen. Ted Cruz strode through a resort here, past booths selling elephant-print scarves, 'gently loved furs' and rhinestone pins spelling out presidential candidates' names -- [...]

Byline: Laura Vozzella RICHMOND -- A national Republican group on Friday pledged to pump a total of $100,000 into races for Virginia's House of Delegates as part of the GOP's [...]

Byline: Janell Ross If nothing else, it's a testament to the power of social media. Late Monday, Congress made moves toward defunding Planned Parenthood. Senate Democrats (and one Republican) blocked [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonis Congressional Republicans are launching a new effort to end federal support for Planned Parenthood amid questions over its handling of fetal tissue, and it appears GOP leaders [...]

Byline: Danielle Paquette Conservative women are more likely to be attracted to companies with generous health-care packages and low turn-over. Liberal women tend to place more importance on higher salaries [...]

Byline: Mike DeBonis A Republican 'war on women' has returned, Democratic senators and women's groups proclaimed Wednesday -- returning to a message that resonated for Democrats in 2012 but seemed [...]

Byline: John Sides My colleague over at The Fix, Philip Bump, dug into this question: What if the composition of Congress reflected the gender composition of the United States? This [...]

Byline: John Sides The answer to the question in the title of this post would seem obvious: yes. Women, including those who work outside the home, still do a large [...]

Byline: Erin C.J. Robertson For the first time, more than 100 women (104 to be exact, between the House and Senate) were sworn into Congress on Tuesday. The 65 House [...]

Byline: Jenny Oser;Marc Hooghe;Sofie Marien Every recent election cycle has seen news stories about online activism, suggestion that new technologies might engage people who have historically been less engaged in [...]

Byline: Jena McGregor Tuesday's election will bring the count of women in Congress to more than 100 for the first time, between both the House and the Senate. The number [...]

Byline: Aaron Blake One of the most interesting numbers in the new Washington Post-ABC News poll is buried deep within the cross tabs. The poll shows that, on the generic [...]

The pay gap between men and women remains wide. Elected officials are still overwhelmingly male. Progress in reversing those deficits has been slow, but one state -- Hawaii -- stands [...]

George F. Will wrote in 'The battle for Iowa' [op-ed, Sept. 28] that the idea that the Republicans are waging a 'war on women' is a 'trope.' The word 'war' [...]

Byline: Melinda Henneberger More than a quarter of a century ago, Dotty Lynch -- then one of the few female pollsters in politics -- found it hard to convince the [...]