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The 'Barbie' Movie: "More Swipes at 'The Patriarchy' Than a Year's Worth of Ms. Magazine" 5 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 5 1323
A New Alimony Law Makes Florida Even Less Safe for Women 1 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 706
'There's no other option but to fight': Iranian women defiant as 'morality police' return 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 5 1016
'Gut-churning': anger as Hungarian president addresses major women's rights conference 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 693
The Taliban has reportedly agreed to relocate the TTP within its borders. Many fear a rise in ethni 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 882
Abortion Is Officially on the Ballot in Ohio's August and November Elections 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 595
Illinois Law Holds Anti-Abortion 'Crisis Pregnancy Centers' Accountable for Misinformation and Frau 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 729
U.S. Clinicians Can Now Mail Abortion Pills to States Banning Abortion, Thanks to Shield Laws in Fi 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 813
'Barbie' and the Women's World Cup: Cheering for Women in Spikes 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 634
'This Barbie Is a Feminist': Greta Gerwig's Barbie Reckons With Her Fraught Legacy 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 1371
Iranian Court Sparks Controversy By Diagnosing Hijab Protesters With Mental Illness 4 Eugene Jul 2023 Jul 2023 8 1303
Across the Desk - S8:E1 (19 (R) AG's See Women as State Property) 1 Across-the-Desk Jul 2023 Jul 2023 5 1264
Biden Administration Takes on Intimate Partner Violence, Releasing New Clinical Guidance 2 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 1037
'Family Annihilators': When Conservative America's Fetish for Guns and Patriarchy Turns Deadly 2 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 6 1064
'Hidden Horrors': When it Comes to Domestic Violence, the Real Monsters Are Hiding in Plain Sight 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 1329
Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments And Rights (of women) July 1848 (175th anniversary) 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 950
What Black Barbie Means to Black Women and Girls 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 819
'Social media': the harms to women and girls 3 Celerity Jul 2023 Jul 2023 7 1562
'Gut-churning': anger as Hungarian president addresses major women's rights conference 2 Eugene Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 1061
Today's google doodle honours Eunice Newton Foote, discoverer of the greenhouse 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 6 815
Why Menopause Representation Matters: 'Women in Positions of Power Realize This Is Not Something to 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 4 1308
Indictments Seek to Hold Trump Accountable for Threatening U.S. Democracy and National Security 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 736
With increasing Taliban restrictions against Afghan women, the mental health crisis worsens. "I feel 4 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 5 1606
US Republicans pass defence bill with anti-abortion, LGBT add-ons 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 681
Physicians Share Photos of Early Pregnancy Tissue: 'We Just Want People to Have Accurate Informati 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 1255
Lawyers Say Catherine Kassenoff's Case--and Thousands of Others--Violate U.S. Constitutional Right to 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 960
Teen and mom plead guilty to abortion charges based on Facebook data 3 BeckyDem Jul 2023 Jul 2023 5 1516
I Am Woman Helen Reddy official video graphic lyrics 6 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 6 1437
Remembering Catherine Kassenoff and Continuing the Fight for Fair U.S. Child Custody Outcomes 2 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 1186
The Time Mother Jones (The Woman) Sent Maimed Children To Shame Teddy Roosevelt 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 1127

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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An ex-anti-abortion evangelist on life as a pro-choice 'traitor' 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 664
Celebrate the ERA's 100th Birthday in Seneca Falls, Where It Was Originally Unveiled 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 4 889
Experts Say Catherine Kassenoff's Family Court Case Should Alarm America 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 938
What Will Happen to Catherine Kassenoff's Children? 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 753
Afghan women barred from beauty salons in latest Taliban edict: "Don't we have the right to work or 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 960
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has challenged traditional perceptions of gender, while also exacerbat 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 773
There is a talk, again, about how social media, especially TikTok, harm young women 3 question everything Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 1014
POLITICS & HISTORY: Women Against Women's Suffrage 2 BeckyDem Jul 2023 Jul 2023 6 1142
Morning-after pill vending machines gain popularity on college campuses post-Roe 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 10 1624
Casting menstruation as a taboo is dangerous 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 735
Congressional Resolution Condemns Criminalization of Abortion, Contraception and Gender-Affirming Ca 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 996
ChatGPT: New Technology, Same Old Misogynoir 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 686
Amid the health and economic crisis in Afghanistan, the Taliban refuses to help. Instead, blames the 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 1087
Women of the World presents "Bread and Roses" 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 753
Pushing Back Against the Pushback: How the Nordics Tackle Online Gender Violence 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 5 1098
March of the Women 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 700
Supreme Court Decision on Reckless Speech Will Cost Victims of Stalking and Harassment 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 993
For All Women In Struggle Kristin Lems 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 864
In the Out Door Kristin Lems 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 653
Days of the Theocracy Kristin Lems 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 4 746
Supreme Court Review: The Term That Ended Affirmative Action, Allowed LGBTQ Discrimination, and More 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 1026
The Hell of Providing Health Care in a Post-Dobbs America 1 Jilly_in_VA Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 1051
A Year After Dobbs: Rights Have Been Lost, Lives Have Been Threatened--But Feminists Persist 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 3 1114
Anti-Abortion Terrorist Thinks Dobbs Ruling Should Set Him Free 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 0 812
'Not afraid': The Texas pilot flying patients to abortions 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 713
The Dark Money Fight Against Abortion Access: A Year in Review 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 816
Afghan lawyers and judges are being persecuted by the Taliban. It threatens Afghan women, the justi 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 943
State Abortion Laws Are a Deciding Factor for Students One Year Post-Roe, IWPR Poll Reveals 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 855
USOW Wants to Help You Organize for Abortion Access One-Year After the Fall of Roe 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 0 861
A Year of Dobbs: Anger, Heartbreak, Resistance and Resilience 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 0 674

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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The Ms. Q&A With U.S. Senator Patty Murray: 'Our Ultimate Goal Is to Put Roe Back Into Law' 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 765
The revival of the Comstock Act: "How the end of Roe turned into a threat to American democracy" 0 Hekate Jun 2023 Jun 2023 7 1173
This Friday: Biden to sign executive order expanding access to contraception 5 NotHardly Jun 2023 Jun 2023 18 1210
In the service of justice 2 Celerity Jun 2023 Jun 2023 5 1021
Today's google doodle honours Magdalena Abakanowicz' 93rd birthday. 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 3 910
'It's a forever pain, an unfathomable pain​': families remember Trinidad's femicide victims​ Trigger 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 1143
Peru violated rights of 13-year-old girl repeatedly raped by father, UN rules 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 974
Fighting the patriarchy one grandpa at a time 4 CousinIT Jun 2023 Jun 2023 19 1187
Thousands protest against strict abortion law in Poland 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 1135
WAR ON WOMEN: Arson at Abortion Clinics Is up 100 Percent; Trump Is Guilty of Sexual Abuse and Defam 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 980
Norway Invites Taliban Officials to the Oslo Forum - A Growing Normalization of the Taliban Means G 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 835
Silenced Resilience: Afghan Women Entrepreneurs Navigating Taliban Restrictions 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 0 669
How Anti-'Abortion Trafficking' Laws Actually *Harm* Youth Trafficking Survivors 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 0 846
How State Constitutions and Courts Can Lead on Reproductive Rights and Gender Equality 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 921
Twitter Halts Promotion Of Campaign Video Due To 'Abortion Advocacy' 4 BigOleDummy Jun 2023 Jun 2023 4 1151
Nine out of 10 people are biased against women, says 'alarming' UN report 1 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 1200
Southern Baptists Vote to Keep Out Churches With Female Pastors 0 BeckyDem Jun 2023 Jun 2023 2 1028
UN Report: Acute Starvation Grips Afghanistan, Affecting Women and Children 1 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 4 1125
'Patriarchal and biased': Israeli women fear loss of rights in legal overhaul 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 926
Are Women's Rights the Canary in the Coal Mine of a Democracy in Decline? 0 niyad Jun 2023 Jun 2023 1 905
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