By Chris Lombardi

“Giving up is not what our family does,” Afghan MP Fawzia Koofi writes her daughters. She proves it by simply telling her life story—and, with it, the story of her proud nation.

By Chris Lombardi

This film honors three fearless women, of two nationalities, who defied power to stop the abuse of thousands of younger, more vulnerable women from all over Eastern Europe.

By Chris Lombardi

When news of Davy Jones’s death hit the Internets, I was on Facebook and could also report: “Three generations just HOWLED.” I was one of them.

By Chris Lombardi

“You guys were so cool when you were young,” a teenager tells Kira, one of the novel’s narrators. That thought both haunts and sustains Kira and her husband, anchoring the story and their lives.

By Chris Lombardi

“Most of us are creative because we saw another woman do it,” Daily Show creator Lizz Winstead told the audience on opening night at the Athena Film Festival, where for four days you could watch that process unfold.

By Chris Lombardi

It was a historic year, all right — from Wal-Mart women losing a shot at redress to exciting new protections for domestic workers in the U.S. Here, some of the highlights.

By Chris Lombardi

After Anita Hill’s testimony 20 years ago, sexual harassment complaints across the nation tripled. Years after, women still believe her with ferocity.

By Chris Lombardi

Pulitzer winner Nutt has written an addictive yarn that’s hard to put down, even as we want to savor its moments and ask ourselves the hard questions it requires

By Chris Lombardi

My wife and I stopped waiting and got married in Canada last year. Still, as the momentum gathered this year in New York State, we couldn’t help feeling that it was our journey, too.

Between now and the 63rd Annual Emmy Awards on Aug. 29, WVFC is launching a series of profiles of our Power Women Honor Roll. Today, some thoughts on Diane Lane, 46, nominated for HBO’s Cinema Verite

By Chris Lombardi

This afternoon, a federal court ruled that now that a discriminatory policy has been repealed, any further personnel actions based on that policy are unlawful.

By Chris Lombardi

The award-winning poet and essayist talks to WVFC about her reinventions, how she juggles her poet and journalist selves, and the long journey to her forthcoming memoir of love and war.

I refuse to concede the Fourth of July, or the idea of America, to any one political faction.Today belongs to me, too.

By Chris Lombardi

Wal-Mart is happy. Advocates for women mostly aren’t. But Betty Dukes and her fellow plaintiffs have vowed to fight on.

While most of us won’t be at a military grave today, we can honor women who have never let themselves forget how that feels.