Women

Last week, the stand-up comedian Julia Jasunas was on Instagram when she got a DM from a fellow comic. Did she know, her friend wrote, that a random Instagram influencer had ripped off a joke from her stand-up act?Initially, Jasunas was mad…

It’s official: Lena Dunham’s millennial magnum opus Girls is coming back, and it’s in large part thanks to Gen Z giving the show its long overdue redemption arc.Using their native tongue: the internet, Gen Z proselytized the show through…

“i’m willing to believe that is more deliberately aestheticized among young women on tumblr,” says adam aleksic, an internet linguist who goes by etymologynerd, “but none of the mega online communities use regular punctuation.” he and i…

Say you’re a guy who reads WIRED—you know a thing or two about artificial intelligence. You recognize the names of well-known people developing AI, like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. But do you know who Mira Murati is? What about Susan Milner?…

Atta’i packages his ideas as relationship advice, but his videos frequently frame interactions between men and women as contests for power. Atta’i’s videos, which WIRED Middle East has watched, describe violence as a means of “disciplining”…

I’m Jane Doe because any of us could be the 20-year-old Cornell student allegedly gang raped for seven hours while dozens of men saw the 'free sex upstairs' messages and did nothing15:59, 06 Oct 2026I am Jane DoeSeven hours is nearly long…

Kate Tolo got her first period at 13—an experience she says left her lying prostrate on the floor, debilitated by cramps and breaking out into a full-body sweat.When she told her dad why she was home from school early, she remembers him…

Last year, Maddie Kowalski was a regular sophomore attending the University of Florida. Then a series of burner accounts on X started proliferating explicit, nonconsensual videos of her. This week, Zoë Schiffer sits down with WIRED senior…

A police woman who has never modelled before in her life is in the running to win Miss England after a massive career shake-up. The officer now has her eyes set on winning Miss World11:02, 04 Oct 2026Updated 11:02, 04 Oct 2026Tara Sampson,…

The piece appeared in a remarkable anthology from 1996, Wired Women: Gender and New Realities in Cyberspace, published by Seal Press, a sort of consciousness-raising meeting in book form. One of the anthology’s editors, Elizabeth Reba…