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Entrepreneur 'humiliated' after London Tech Week turns her and baby away 3 cbabe Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1468
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In Canada, A Daughter's Fight To Bring Her Murdered Indigenous Mother Home (Trigger Warning) 4 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1458
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"I Ain't Afraid" Holly Near 2 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 8 1402
Lawsuit Challenges Kansas Law That Voids Living Wills for Pregnant Women 2 niyad Jun 2025 Jun 2025 5 1120
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Still Naming the Problem: A New Film Premiering at Tribeca, Then Heading to HBO, Celebrates ...Ms. Magazine 1 littlemissmartypants Jun 2025 Jun 2025 8 1311
So true 8 Demovictory9 Jun 2025 Jun 2025 2 1470
Myth and misogyny: how male representations of the female form have changed the way women are viewed 6 littlemissmartypants May 2025 May 2025 13 1533
Astronaut Sally Ride's BD is today. Reading about her, found this site which was surprised that hadn't found erst now. 1 SorellaLaBefana May 2025 May 2025 11 1343
Susan Brownmiller, author of landmark book on sexual assault, dies at 90 5 littlemissmartypants May 2025 May 2025 13 1602
Her Voice, Her Power: The Story of Hira Anwar Generation Girl Code 1 YoshidaYui May 2025 May 2025 3 1468
Passengers come to aid of woman breasfeeding on bus when man videotapes 2 Demovictory9 May 2025 May 2025 7 1459
I post this here because it's hitting women 8 slightlv May 2025 May 2025 41 2769
It really should have been a deal breaker for everyone. . . 1 Stargleamer May 2025 May 2025 18 1482
sometimes the word "oppression" seems to have fallen by the wayside. . . 0 Stargleamer May 2025 May 2025 3 1025
Our Periods Are Not Your Population Solution 2 niyad May 2025 May 2025 4 1367
Faux feminism has left the planet 2 niyad May 2025 May 2025 6 1260
'We Need a Gentle Anger': The Triangle's Raging Grannies are Protesting Injustice through Music 1 niyad May 2025 May 2025 3 1143
How Trump's America Is Normalizing Violence Against Women (trigger warning) 0 niyad May 2025 May 2025 3 1139
Profiles in Courage: Danielle Sassoon, a Prosecutor of Principle, Quits After Rejecting Trump-Appointed AG's Order to Sh 0 niyad May 2025 May 2025 4 1028
American women and children are in crisis. Republicans are about to make it worse 1 littlemissmartypants Apr 2025 Apr 2025 15 1369
Advancing global development by empowering women 0 Celerity Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 1129
The Perception Paradox: Men Who Hate Feminists Think Feminists Hate Men 3 niyad Mar 2025 Apr 2025 4 1555
'It means death': Afghan women's rights activists face deportation from Pakistan 0 Eugene Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1306
Four Afghan girl guitarists escaped the Taliban. Will they be forced back? 1 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1507
The SAVE Act's Impact on Women Voters Isn't a Coincidence. It's Voter Suppression. 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 1191
Twenty-Nine States Have a Not-So-Secret Weapon to Fight for Democracy 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1321
Trump Pulls Research Funding To Protect Pregnant Women From Domestic Violence, Citing 'DEI' 12 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 2365

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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The Mexican women who defied drug-dealers, fly-tippers and chauvinists to build a thriving business 2 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1649
The GOP's Next Target? No-Fault Divorce and Women's Right to Leave 2 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1563
Missing Native women erased: activists reel as Trump administration removes crucial missing Indigenous peoples report 1 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 1246
A Challenge to the Health of Pregnant Workers--and the Health of Our Constitutional Democracy 2 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1371
'Money, Lies, and God': The Rise of Christian Nationalism and the Battle for American Democracy 2 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1578
Education Is a Right 3 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 1220
Biased laws and poverty driving huge rise in female prisoners - report 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1234
Israel's attacks on reproductive healthcare in Gaza 'genocidal': UN probe 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1347
" Days of the Theocracy"-- Kristin Lems 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1052
Paris Paloma, Labour with lyrics 0 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 1014
Convention of the Cayuga County (NY) Political Equality Club program, 1914 0 Dennis Donovan Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 1045
International Women's Day 1 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 1607
Secretary of State Marco Rubio Will Be a Disaster for Women 1 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1426
Women's HERstory Month 2025--Moving Forward Together 1 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1232
Against the Normalization of Trump's Misogyny 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1138
Presidents' Day and the Legacy of Exclusion: Why Women Still Struggle for the Oval Office 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1043
Montana Lawmakers Vote Down Bill That Would Have Treated Cross-Border Abortion Seekers as Traffickers of Their 'Unborn 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1282
Ten Warnings the New Gabby Petito Netflix Doc Reveals About Coercive Control (trigger warning) 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 1232
And the Oscar for Best Documentary Should Go to ... 'Black Box Diaries' (trigger warning) 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1134
CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health 3 littlemissmartypants Feb 2025 Feb 2025 17 1734
Activists call for state of emergency in Nigeria over gender-based violence 0 Eugene Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1168
cross posting here cuz 0 mopinko Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 1033
Dumbest man ever calls AOC dumbest Congresswoman ever elected 2 struggle4progress Feb 2025 Feb 2025 13 1618
New York doctor indicted in Louisiana abortion case recognized as a leader in women's reproductive health 1 Quiet Em Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 1144
Iowa sexual harassment male gets job with Iowa girls athletics org. 0 suegeo Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 1431
Anisa Yousaf, survivor of a forced marriage: 'Parents should give their daughters freedom of choice' 0 cbabe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 1152
Sex and World Peace: How the Treatment of Women Affects Development and Security 0 littlemissmartypants Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1170
"Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks its level of 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 16 1292
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 0 686
an Erratic and Vindictive Criminal Was Worthier of My Vote Than a Woman 10 struggle4progress Feb 2025 Feb 2025 14 2522

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Women's Paychecks Are Shrinking--And Policy Isn't Keeping Up 6 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1763
T####'s Pardons of 23 Antiabortion Extremists Endanger Providers and Patients 4 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 1521
'Nasty' Women Beware: Trump's History of Demeaning and Silencing Women 1 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1361
Sierra Leone is on the brink of making history. We must not allow the US far right to infiltrate and stop us 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 1302
Meet the New Feminists in Congress Who Are Fighting Back 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1115
Rolling Up Our Sleeves, Part 2: Enlisting Blue State Government 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1074
Rolling Up Our Sleeves, Part 1: Fighting the New Trump Administration's Wave of Extremist Actions 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 898
Government's reproductive rights resource goes dark hours into new Trump administration 5 littlemissmartypants Jan 2025 Jan 2025 13 2734
Milei government plans to remove femicide from Argentina penal code 0 Eugene Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 1140
Top European human rights court backs French woman who refused sex with her husband 0 Quiet Em Jan 2025 Jan 2025 15 1124
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. An Origin Story 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 1861
🌺Lawrence Tribe (Harvard) & Kathleen Sullivan (Harvard & Stanford) THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT AT LONG LAST 2 Hekate Jan 2025 Jan 2025 8 2121
Misogynistic Tirade at Fan During Football Game Costs Miscreant His Job and Ban from Stadium 29 C0RI0LANUS Jan 2025 Jan 2025 56 6733
Seen on FB, one of the best responses to self righteous, anti-choice zealots. 30 CrispyQ Jan 2025 Jan 2025 105 10371
Which women do men find most attractive 16 littlemissmartypants Jan 2025 Jan 2025 13 4024
Out of Touch on Menopause: Experts Respond to The Lancet's 'Over-Medicalization' Claims 3 niyad Dec 2024 Jan 2025 5 1861
Before the Stopping Starts (menopause) 3 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 1636
'When Power Curdles Into Violence': Escaping the Tradwife Lifestyle 3 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 1354
'The Women Are Talking!' Up Close and Personal With Women World Leaders at the 2024 Reykjavk Global Forum 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 6 1248
'Protect us alive, not dead': how women are starting to be heard on femicide in Ivory Coast 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 1144
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