How and why politicians and activists appeal to motherhood to gain support

From civically and politically engaged women linking their identity as “mothers” to their fight for prohibition, public sanitation, and protective labor law

When women in politics interact with reporters, opponents, and constituents, they are forced to confront their parental status. If they have children, they are

A warm, wise, and urgent guide to parenting in uncertain times, from a longtime reporter on race, reproductive health, and politics In We Live for the We, first

Even though in most nations women are at least almost half of the population, in very few countries do they occupy a similar space in the formal institutions of