Women and Girls

Women and Girls are a Critical Climate Solution

The climate crisis is not “gender neutral.”

March 27, 2024

Centering Black Women in Our Economic Recovery

Racial and gender injustice has long prevented women of color from accessing quality jobs and equitable healthcare. We can fix that.

March 16, 2022
Black mom and child on playground

Leader of Women’s Foundation of Alabama chosen for prestigious Aspen Institute fellowship

In an Alabama NewsCenter article, Anne Mosle comments on the thought leadership of Melanie Bridgeforth, president and CEO of Women’s Foundation of Alabama, who is one of the 2021 Aspen Institute Ascend Fellows.

December 16, 2021

Why Society Must Address Intersectional Discrimination

This country is built on systems propped up by sexism and racism—as Black women we encounter this every day.

June 14, 2021

Women on the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment

Katherine Grainger, adjunct professor at NYU, Ai-jen Poo, co-founder and executive director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and Cecile Richards, former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America

July 28, 2020

These Women Are Creating a More Resilient America

As we close out Women’s History Month, let’s recognize the women planning for our long road of recovery and healing.

March 31, 2020
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Madeleine and Alice Albright Trade Tips for Working Mothers

The Albrights joined The Bridge, a podcast that invites two women with deep knowledge and compassion to engage in conversation.

March 12, 2020
Peggy Clark and Madeleine Albright

Madeleine Albright on Leadership, Immigration, and her Brooch Collection

Secretary Albright has always been a trailblazer and continues to make a statement, down to her accessories. On the question of brooches, how exactly does one store that many beautiful and unique pieces? Is there a temperature-controlled vault that can only be opened via retina scan? You’ll have to listen to find out.

November 13, 2019

How the Feminist Movement is Challenging Authoritarianism

2019 Aspen Ideas Festival speaker Leta Hong Fincher on the oppression of women abroad and in the US, and the role gender equality plays in a healthy democracy.

June 11, 2019
A group of protestors with signs and a megaphone.

The Impact of the Women’s Wave

Hear leaders discuss the role of the women’s movement in the 2018 election and beyond.

December 21, 2018