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How well a society treats its women is one of the strongest indicators of the success and health of that society. Discrimination against women and girls occurs in many forms — gender-based violence, economic discrimination, reproductive health...
by populationmediacenter
on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 08:13 AM PDT
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JTA We believed diverse coalitions would include Jewish women. Now we fear we are alone Seven weeks after the Hamas attack on Israel, the strangely silent women’s rights group UN Women issued an Instagram statement on allegations...
by mettle fatigue
on Sat Dec 02, 2023 at 04:00 PM PST
with 33 Recommends
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fox9.com/video The Black 'Rosie the Riveters': The 600,000 women of color who broke barriers during WWII A six-minute video introducing Invisible Warriors: African American Women in WWII {separate website),which premiered TODAY at the...
by mettle fatigue
on Sat Feb 11, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
with 23 Recommends
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This Week In The War On Women: 2/4/2023 Remember MMIW (In some positive news):"Monarch butterflies wintering in California rebound" apnews.com/... LIFESTYLE Research says one of the best things for your mental health is … birds! WA legislators work...
by Angmar
on Sat Feb 04, 2023 at 05:00 PM PST
with 16 Recommends
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When taking away abortion rights, anti-choicers hide behind the fig leaf of rationalization that there will be exceptions when a pregnancy is life-threatening. As we’ve been warning all along, ...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
on Sat Oct 22, 2022 at 05:00 PM PDT
with 32 Recommends
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A Nebraska teenager and her mother are being criminally charged over the teen’s abortion , after Facebook provided law enforcement with her private messages. The fall of Roe not only brings back ...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
on Sat Aug 13, 2022 at 05:00 PM PDT
with 20 Recommends
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The recent settlement by Lyft is such� perfect metaphor for the war on women. Lyft concealed cases like the one involving Alison Turkos, who was kidnapped at gunpoint by Lyft driver in 2017, driven ...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
on Sat Jun 18, 2022 at 05:00 PM PDT
with 17 Recommends
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As a caregiver who is no spring chicken myself, I’ve wondered if men or women have a more difficult time caring for themselves when they become the elderly elderly. It turns out, it’s men who ...
by elenacarlena
on Sat Jan 29, 2022 at 05:00 PM PST
with 20 Recommends
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Welp, this was the week that we remembered the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the US Capitol. As you might imagine, women who were there at the time felt a special kind of vulnerability, and demonstrated our special kind of strength. From The 19th:...
by elenacarlena
on Sat Jan 08, 2022 at 05:00 PM PST
with 20 Recommends
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The Junta, (the islanders’ name for the unelected Fiscal Control Board that governs the island’s finances) has finally decided to authorize $7 million dollars requested by newly elected Gov. Pedro Pierluisi to combat what has been declared a state of...
by Denise Oliver Velez
on Sat May 08, 2021 at 04:31 AM PDT
with 87 Recommends
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The past few weeks have been rather unpleasant as an understatement. Sarah Everard, a woman who had been missing from south London had been found dead. The anger and disgust felt by many women about the lack of safety of women in Britain was only...
by NY brit expat
on Sun Mar 21, 2021 at 03:00 PM PDT
with 14 Recommends
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In December of 2018, I wrote “Dear women on the U.S. mainland: Please support our sisters in Puerto Rico,” crying out for mainland women’s groups to aid Puerto Rican women in their struggle to end gendered violence and femicide on the island. That was...
by Denise Oliver Velez
on Thu Jan 28, 2021 at 04:14 AM PST
with 116 Recommends
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Happy Halloween! The stories below are serious, but the titles are not-srs and in the spirit (so to speak!) of the holiday. Enjoy! Ghosts of Politics Past or Ghosts of Politics Future? The GOP, of ...
by elenacarlena
on Sat Oct 31, 2020 at 05:00 PM PDT
with 25 Recommends
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Our Saturday evening diaries offer a weekly summary of news on women's issues, and information on current political actions. We welcome all who are interested, to comment in the discussion, bring relevant links and stories, join in order to reblog to...
by mettle fatigue
on Sat Aug 01, 2020 at 04:55 PM PDT
with 16 Recommends
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[Every Saturday evening] This Week in the War On Women provides a weekly summary of news on women's issues, and information on current political actions. We welcome all who are interested to join, to write for us, and to provide relevant links and...
by mettle fatigue
on Sat Apr 25, 2020 at 04:55 PM PDT
with 29 Recommends
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Let me state the obvious: Right now, we could hardly be in a more unsettled moment on a more unsettled planet. And I feel it...
by TomDispatch
on Tue Mar 31, 2020 at 11:58 AM PDT
with 4 Recommends
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Note: the economic climate is among factors causing some news sources listed below to publish less or be subsumed elsewhere, similar to the implosion of women’s news resources in 2019... 📌 The19th news — (named for the amendment) anonprofit,...
by mettle fatigue
on Sat Mar 28, 2020 at 04:50 PM PDT
with 25 Recommends
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This blog is our piece to highlight the first wave of feminism and to provide some historical context to the creation of International Working Women’s Day in the the period of the first and second decades of the 20th century. While International...
by NY brit expat
on Sun Mar 08, 2020 at 03:00 PM PDT
with 27 Recommends
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This Week in the War On Women provides a weekly summary of news on women's issues and information on current political actions. We welcome all who are interested to join, to write for us, and to provide relevant links and stories. Please see the...
by mettle fatigue
on Sat Feb 22, 2020 at 04:55 PM PST
with 24 Recommends
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It’s been a tough couple of years both personally and politically. On a personal level, I had serious health issues which, of necessity, required me to pull back from political organising and participation (my doctors actually told me to stop going to...
by NY brit expat
on Sun Jul 21, 2019 at 03:00 PM PDT
with 13 Recommends
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