Those five famous words from the Declaration of Independence sound simple enough: all men are created equal. For nearly 250 years, the U.S. has leaned on that founding proposition. In theory, its ...

S1: Welcome back to KPBS midday Edition , I'm Jade Hindman. Today marks Women's Equality Day. On this day in 1920 , the 19th amendment passed , granting women the right to vote in theory , for women ...

For years, the antiabortion movement had Roe v. Wade in its crosshairs — so it seemed that the reversal of Roe would be the ultimate victory for Americans who oppose abortion. But when the Supreme ...

Many people, including some high-profile celebrities, have been arguing that the concept of equity is the same as equality of outcome. According to dictionary definitions and previous research, ...

Social scientists and gender theorists have long debated the causes of achievement disparities between males and females in certain competencies. For example, if we find (as we do) that most engineers ...