Ex-Ms. magazine editor Mary Thom dies in NY crash
Prominent feminist Mary Thom, a writer and former editor of Ms. magazine who also was an avid motorcyclist, crashed while riding on a highway and was ...

UK's first female leader rejected feminist label
She was Britain's first female leader, a strong woman who battled her way to the top of a male-dominated political system — but don't call Margaret ...

Facebook exec's new book urges women to 'lean in'
For a book that has yet to be released, Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In" — part feminist manifesto, part how-to career guide — has got a lot of people ...

Women's history pioneer Gerda Lerner dies at 92
Gerda Lerner spent her 18th birthday in a Nazi prison, sharing a cell with two gentile women arrested for political work who shared their food with ...

Jean Harris, 'Scarsdale Diet' doctor killer, dies
Jean Harris, the patrician girls' school headmistress who spent 12 years in prison for the 1980 killing of her longtime lover, "Scarsdale Diet" doctor ...