There are stars who act, and then there are stars who shift the cultural temperature of a country without ever announcing it. Sharmila Tagore did the latter, with the gentleness of a poet and the ...

NPR's Kathryn Fink and Jordan Marie Smith talk about why Broadcast News still resonates in conversations about women and ambition. Many people have role models growing up. One of mine was Holly Hunter ...

The picture is even worse for specific subsets of women. The share of mothers of young children in the labor market fell almost 3 percentage points in the first half of the year. Unemployment for ...