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United Nations Condemns U.S. Failure to Address Discrimination Against Women, Directs U.S. to Ratify ERA and CEDAW 2 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 5 856
On This Day: Nellie Bly starts trip Around the World in 72 days - Nov. 14, 1889 0 jgo Nov 2023 Nov 2023 9 939
Republican AG Sued For Threatening To Criminalize Out Of State Abortions (Alabama) - Rodecast 0 TexasTowelie Nov 2023 Nov 2023 8 1060
South Africa to introduce shared parental leave after landmark judgment 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 3 618
Keeping Score: Georgia Upholds Six-Week Abortion Ban; Republicans Aim to Eliminate Women's Bureau at Labor Department; 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 11 1171
ACLU Brings Legal Challenge to Tennessee's Discriminatory Aggravated Prostitution Law 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 4 646
The Hyde Amendment Continues to Be a Barrier for Accessing Abortion Care 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 884
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 462
Allowing Domestic Violence Perpetrators to Carry Guns Will Worsen the U.S. Maternal Health Crisis 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 661
How the World Is Letting Girls Fall Behind 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 2 650
No More Child Brides 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 4 402
'I felt safe and taken care of': can midwifery startups change our broken maternity care? 2 Jilly_in_VA Nov 2023 Nov 2023 13 835
I never thought, 30 years after I fled Rwanda, life would be worse for female refugees 1 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 7 1070
Political Violence Threatens Our Democracy. How Do We Keep Candidates Safe? 2 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 3 735
Rest in Power: Lois Galgay Reckitt, Trailblazing Feminist Activist 1 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 3 612
Domestic Violence Calls About 'Reproductive Coercion' Doubled After the Overturn of Roe 1 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 7 1026
The Last Salem Witch Has Been Exonerated 2 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 6 515
The Republican Crusade Against Issue 1: Ohio's Reproductive Freedom Amendment 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 790
Who Pays the Price for Men's Wars? 1 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 2 505
Why Are Women Experts Still Excluded From Peace Talks Across the Globe? 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 2 1413
The MAGA movement would be nothing without misogyny. 1 kpete Nov 2023 Nov 2023 8 782
In 'Nyad,' Annette Bening and Jodie Foster shatter the limits of age 5 question everything Nov 2023 Nov 2023 22 1587
On This Day: Playwright, journalist, feminist Olympe de Gouges guillotined - Nov. 3, 1793 3 jgo Nov 2023 Nov 2023 12 1189
National Museum of Women in the Arts Reopening - Major Renovation, Bold Exhibitions, Public Programs 1 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 4 777
Faced with abortion bans, doctors beg hospitals for help with key decisions 5 Nevilledog Oct 2023 Oct 2023 6 894
'Why must we be silent?': horrific attack in Kyrgyzstan puts focus on violence against women 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 4 1200
Why are women in 'feminist paradise' Iceland striking? 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 7 692
The Wonderful Karma of Black Women Saving American Democracy 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 728
'Comstocked': How Extremists Are Exploiting a Victorian-Era Law To Deny Abortion Access 2 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 687
A Freelance War Correspondent Covers Ethnic Cleansing of Her Indigenous Nation 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 521

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Women Speak Out for Pathway to Peace 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 484
Five Moons Indigenous Ballerinas 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 399
Free Public Event Celebrates Maria Tallchief Quarter, Unveiling of New Statue Honoring Marjorie Tallchief 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 512
Is owning automatic weapons a testosterone thing? 10 BigmanPigman Oct 2023 Oct 2023 8 922
Peru's Govt Forcibly Sterilized 200,000 Indigenous Women, 1996 - 2001, Why? WaPo 2 appalachiablue Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 860
Former MSU football coach Mel Tucker uses toxic tactic to defend himself 2 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 Oct 2023 9 1236
Mahsa Amini honoured with EU's top human rights prize 1 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 5 666
BBC Presenter told to suck it up over extreme menstrual problems 8 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 Oct 2023 10 1420
Women behind the lens: the female beekeepers who hold 'the keys to a better world' 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 7 1016
The Secret History of the Vulva 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 7 644
At the National Mall, Artist Tiffany Shlain Is Rewriting Women into U.S. History 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 4 586
To Fight the 'War on Woke,' We Need Poetry and Poets 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 413
Devastation from Earthquakes in Afghanistan Strikes an Already-Shaky Foundation 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 2753
Why Sororities Should Admit Nonbinary Members 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 423
Reporting Under Fire: Honoring the Journalists Covering the Israeli-Gaza War 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 396
Today's google doodle honours Adelaide Hall, jazz singer who introduced scat 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 604
Fears rise as three Alabama hospitals prepare to stop delivering babies 14 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 Oct 2023 40 2453
Across the Desk - S8:E13 (The GOP - Making Pregnancy Dangerous for Women) 1 Across-the-Desk Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 755
An Alabama woman was imprisoned for 'endangering' her fetus. She gave birth in a jail shower 2 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 Oct 2023 5 1051
The Biden Administration's Investment in Internet Will Reduce Barriers to Abortion 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 696
They're Coming for Birth Control (BE VERY AFRAID) 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 603
Who is Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi? 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 434
We've Gone Over the Childcare Cliff. Now What? 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 401
FGM ban in the Gambia under threat as calls grow to repeal law 2 Eugene Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 552
'No matter what I do, I'm not in control': what happens when the state takes your child 1 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 Oct 2023 8 830
A Woman Was Denied Medication for Being of 'Childbearing Age.' She Just Sued the Hospital 2 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 Oct 2023 6 1035
2023 Nobel Prize for Economics by Claudia Goldin for Womens Labor Market outcomes 1 irisblue Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 475
We Heart: The Women Who Gave Us the COVID Vaccine 2 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 6 900
Dr. Katalin Karik's Hope in Messenger RNA Helped the World Recover from COVID-19 2 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 1245
Biden Challenges Congress to Take Action on the ERA 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 8 388

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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How Religious Hospitals Block Access to Reproductive Care--Even in 'Safe Haven' States 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 446
'Hysterical' Women Out for Revenge: Family Court's Misogynistic Tropes Traumatize Women and Childre 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 607
The Supreme Court's Blindness to Gender Violence 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 444
Judge James Ho's Connections to the Anti-Abortion Movement 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 576
about heartbeats--life and death 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 365
From the Frontlines in Iran: Our Fight for Human Rights and Gender Equality 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 573
Canada Police Won't Investigate Dr, Sterilized Inuit Woman w/o Consent, Acted In Her 'Best Interest' 7 appalachiablue Sep 2023 Sep 2023 12 1101
Man Accused Of Dismembering Girlfriend Was Posterboy For Betsy DeVos' War On #MeToo 1 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 5 743
Hell Hath No Fury Like an Accomplished Woman Facing Down a Man-Boy 1 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 3 515
Asian Americans Are a Powerful Voting Bloc. It's Time for the Political World to Start Acting Like I 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 1 793
Kidnapped and forced to marry their rapist: ending 'courtship rape' in Uganda 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 4 406
From the Ashes of Rana Plaza: 'Consumers Want to Know How Their Clothes Are Made' 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 1 966
Women Lawmakers Have Pushed Back Against Senate Dress Codes for Decades 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 507
Rest in Power, Sen. Dianne Feinstein: 'The Feminist Movement Has Lost a True Friend' 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 486
Prostitution is not a free choice for women 2 Celerity Sep 2023 Sep 2023 11 915
'Feminist approach' to cancer could save lives of 800,000 women a year 2 babylonsister Sep 2023 Sep 2023 8 1019
Police Further Traumatize Sexual Assault Victims by Turning Them Into Suspects 6 Jilly_in_VA Sep 2023 Sep 2023 9 1282
'Eat your broccoli and don't listen to Andrew Tate': fighting misogyny is now part of everyday paren 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 1 789
Russell Brand never hid his misogyny. So why did so many fail to see it? Trigger warning 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 0 697
Art as Protest--and Therapy--in War-Ravaged Ukraine 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 0 563
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