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What has the Obama Administration done for women and girls?
Since 2016, we’ve watched women rack up unprecedented wins.
Women in the media speak up about what needs to change in the wake of #MeToo.
Hear from women involved in modern feminism as well as politically-active millennials.
One-hundred years ago this month, women suffragists celebrated the passage of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution. Since then, what strides have women made toward gender equality?
After more than two decades of research, tax scholar Dorothy A. Brown discovered that America's tax system is not color-blind. In fact, societal racism is deeply embedded in it. From attending college to getting married to buying a home, Black Americans are financially disadvantaged compared to their white peers.
#MeToo exposed sexual harassment in the workplace, but what about the problem of gender inequality?
Actress Ashley Judd on activism and promoting health for women and girls around the world.
Hear from Margot Lee Shetterly and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, two award-winning authors.
The late Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the second female justice confirmed to the US Supreme Court, told an Aspen Institute crowd in 2017 that her experiences as a woman gave her a unique perspective on the Court.
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks says liberal democracy has become about “me” instead of “us.” In his new book, Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times, Sacks says we are losing our strong, shared moral code and that’s challenging our sense of community and common good. Growth comes from an openness to others who may not be like us and, he says, developing a moral bo...
Hear from Elizabeth Acevedo and Arthur Brooks at the Summit on Inequality and Opportunity.
The Aspen Institute remembers and mourns Secretary Madeleine K. Albright, who passed away on March 23, 2022. She was a diplomat, professor, author, business leader, and the first woman to be the U.S. Secretary of State. In 2018, she raised the alarm on dangerous world leadership with her book “Fascism: A Warning,” calling out the regimes of Kim Jong-un and Vladimir Putin,...
Historian Erica Armstrong Dunbar discusses her book "Never Caught."
One year after a deadly hate rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, the city continues to heal.
The stories we hear about migrants trying to escape difficult circumstances tend to focus on hardship, conflict, statistics and policy. We rarely get a deep look at any of the people risking their lives to cross the U.S. border or take a boat to Europe, and we don’t get to know or understand them as fellow humans. Writer Javier Zamora came to the U.S. when he was nine year...
Valerie Jarrett, a former senior advisor to the president, looks back on the Obama White House.