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United States' Tobin Heath, second from right, is congratulated on her goal by Mallory Pugh (11), Megan Rapinoe and Alex Morgan (13) during the first half of a SheBelieves Cup soccer match against Brazil in Tampa, Fla. (AP/Mike Carlson)

Women's soccer's game-changing lawsuit

Rachel Leah
Emma Stone and Steve Carell in "Battle of the Sexes" (Twentieth Century Fox/Melinda Sue Gordon)

Tale of tennis then tells a story of now

Max Cea
(Getty/Angela Weiss/Jason Kempin/Salon)

Ellen isn’t your scapegoat

Nico Lang
From PBS's "Makers": Some leaders of the women's movement pass a torch that was carried by foot from New York to Houston, Tex., for the November 1977 National Women's Convention. (PBS/AP/Greg Smith)

How feminists (partly) won

Irin Carmon