Less than a year ago, the Democratic presidential field featured a record number of female candidates, many of them with credentials as strong as any of the men in the race. As the primary carried on, however, the women in the contest gradually fell off one by one.

In the hours surrounding Joe Biden’s convincing Michigan win Tuesday night, adding to his Mississippi and Missouri shutouts of Sen. Bernie Sanders, analysts and pundits, as we are wont to do, deluged the airwaves and social media with assessments and predictions about the state of the 2020 race.

Sometimes these are based on good data, solid reporting, exit polls or even firsthand knowledge. Other times they’re purely speculative hunches, offered with little evidence other than sneaking suspicion and a string of well-couched probablys.

Washington Post reporter Felicia Sonmez received death and rape threats for a tweet she sent out late last month linking to a story about sexual assault allegations against Kobe Bryant, shortly after news broke of the NBA star’s death. Someone found Sonmez’s home address and published it online. Instead of rushing to protect her from abuse or worse, her editors suspended her and suggested she go to a hotel for her safety.

Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont reportedly told Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts in a 2018 conversation he didn’t think a woman could win the presidency.

The assessment came when two Democratic presidential hopefuls were meeting at Ms. Warren’s Washington, D.C. apartment and talking about how they should avoid attacking one another in a 2020 race, CNN reported on Monday.

Robert De Niro’s ex-assistant has filed a counter-lawsuit against the actor following his company’s $6 million August suit alleging in part that the former employee watched 55 episodes of Friends over four days while on the job. Graham Chase Robinson, who was once De Niro’s assistant, but eventually became vice president of production and finance at his production studio, alleges in her lawsuit that the A-list actor treated her as his “office wife,” giving her “female duties like housework” despite her upward movement inside the company.

Democratic women are rewriting campaign history, with six women now running for the White House. The surge of female candidates for the highest office hopefully marks a turning point for what's considered the campaign norm. But this election revolution is unfolding in a strange vacuum, because there still hasn't been an open and honest media discussion about how the political press mistreated Hillary Clinton when she ran in 2016, and in 2008. We simply can’t have an honest debate about sexism on the campaign trail if the media won’t acknowledge its collectively awful past.

We disagree as a country on every possible cultural and political point except, perhaps, one: that private life, as a result, has also become its own fresh hell.

How is the movement perceived by men and what is their role in it? Our readers shared their thoughts.

So much for ‘going high.’ Those who had warned about an uptick in sexism under President Trump may have been on to something. As the era of Trump dawns, some women already are being singled out for criticism and scorn that is tinged with sexist assumptions and seems intended to force them back into roles society decrees are a must for good women.

The men parked their white work van on a patch of dirt down the road from the college where Hillary Clinton was set to give a major speech.