women’s rights
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Feminist Victories You Haven’t Heard About
In a nation as solipsistic as the US, we don’t hear much about politics in other countries. This is doubly true when it comes to woman-centered movements, and triply true when those movements are in Africa. In an opinion piece…
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Bodies That Mattered
Tuesday night Texas women fought to take our bodies back. Not just our individual bodies, but the metaphorical ones that theoretically represent us by proxy: the House, the Senate, the body politic.
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About That Terrifying Abortion Bill in Texas…
Despite valiant efforts from protesters and pro-choice politicians, Texas’s state House of Representatives has “tentatively approved” the ultraconservative anti-abortion Senate Bill 5, the Texas Tribune reports. The bill would ban abortion at 20-weeks gestation, require physicians that perform the procedure to have…
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“Good Girls Revolt”
American Public Media talks with Lynn Povich, author of The Good Girls Revolt, about the group of female Newsweek employees who sued the publication for gender discrimination. Newsweek split tasks between gender at that time: females worked in the research department while males were…
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Voting before Driving
ABC reports that Saudi Arabian women will be allowed to take part in local elections starting in 2015. “This is in a country where women are subjected to many restrictions, including not being allowed to drive. The United States and…
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Winning Women
The Daily Beast published an interactive infographic, mapping out where “women are winning.” “Winning” is measured along the lines of justice, health, education, economy and power. Iceland is apparently full of female champions.
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The Rumpus Interview with Megan Stack
The six years Megan Stack spent in the Middle East reporting for the LA Times began as a sort of emergency assignment and ended with Every Man In This Village Is A Liar, her indelible memoir of an education in…
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The Paramount Moral Challenge Of Our Time
“Yet if the injustices that women in poor countries suffer are of paramount importance, in an economic and geopolitical sense the opportunity they represent is even greater. There’s a growing recognition among everyone from the World Bank to the U.S.…