PERSPECTIVE | Fashion puts women on mute — Essay by Robin Givhan. Views expressed are the opinion of the author. Clothing speaks in awkward monosyllables and eloquent paragraphs, in whispers and shouts. But on the night of the president’s first State of the Union address, the Capitol turned into an echo-chamber of ineffectual fashion Babel. For a television…

The world is ‘another prison,’ she said —

The excess of males might have long-term impacts — Adapted from a story by The Washington Post’s Annie Gowen. India recently release its country’s annual economic survey, which included a 2017–18 estimate of 63 million women “missing” from its population. …

MOVIE REVIEW | The film delivers a message that can’t be ignored —

‘This is a male institution’ — Adapted from a story by The Washington Post’s Michael Allison Chandler. For decades, women were employed only in women’s prisons. That started to change in the 1970s as legal barriers broke down and more women entered the workforce. Now they represent nearly 30 percent of correctional employees, according to U.S…

She was able to watch it fly away —

‘Why win with less when you can win with more?’ —

PERSPECTIVE | That thinking is upside down — Essay by Margaret Sullivan. When the news broke Thursday that the National Gallery of Art had postponed two exhibitions because the artists have been accused of sexual misconduct, reaction from some quarters was predictable. People slammed the gallery’s management for a rush to judgment and bashed women accusers for being…

Rep. Yvonne Brathwaite Burke was a California Democrat —