Legislators weigh whether to require free tampons and pads in Maine schools

Hoping to ease the burden on students, legislators may mandate free sanitary supplies in bathrooms.

The state of Maine women

Women in Maine are no longer 'civilly dead' on their wedding day, but they're still earning 28 cents less on the dollar. A look at how Maine women are faring 100 years after the 19th Amendment.

Female hopefuls for Congress smash record again, as more Republican women seek office

As of July 1, 574 women had filed to run in primaries for U.S. House seats, topping the record 476 from two years ago.

The ‘unconquerable’ Mary Wheelwright Mitchell

When every other female student at Bates College quit under pressure in the 1860s, Mary Mitchell refused to leave. That legacy stands today as one of the school's greatest sources of pride.

Democratic AGs sue to force U.S. to ratify Equal Rights Amendment

Before Virginia’s vote this week that made it the critical 38th state to approve the ERA, Nevada in 2017 and Illinois in 2018 were the most recent to ratify the amendment.

Question authority, political or religious

May the best women, or men, represent us

Trump's war on Planned Parenthood

A female governor for Maine

Religious freedom being abused