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Abortion and Equal Rights Are Top Drivers of Young Women's Vote in Battleground States 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 0 874
MY PREGNANCY VS. THE STATE OF TEXAS 15 littlemissmartypants Oct 2022 Oct 2022 45 3285
Women Everywhere Are Standing Up Against 'Gender Apartheid' 11 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 6 1089
'I Felt Like the Luckiest Girl in the World': Afghan Students Restart College in the U.S. 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 1 884
Standing Up for Water, Land and Climate: Meet 10 Indigenous Women Fighting the Line 5 Pipeline 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 1 681
Increased Attacks against Hazaras in Afghanistan; Mostly Girls and Women Killed and Wounded 2 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 2 684
With SisterMentors, Dr. Shireen Lewis Is Building a Fierce Future for Women and Girls of Color in Ed 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 0 615
How Do We Build a World Where Every Girl Can Thrive? 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 2 822
Black Women Lead: From the Stage to the Streets 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 0 567
The Anti-Abortion Movement's Attempt to Criminalize Abortion Speech 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 652
CVS is helping women fight the Pink Tax 2 BigmanPigman Oct 2022 Oct 2022 3 1013
Drugging Iranian girls into submission 2 cbabe Oct 2022 Oct 2022 5 1042
Why childbirth is so dangerous for many young teens 1 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2022 Oct 2022 14 977
Christian college coach created a culture of doping and sexual abuse, star runners allege 1 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2022 Oct 2022 5 1407
Tackling the roots of gender-based violence 1 Celerity Oct 2022 Oct 2022 5 874
Switchblade Goddess 2 orangecrush Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 1077
Get up and march October 7-9, 2022 to protest Dobbs and protect our rights! 4 Timeflyer Oct 2022 Oct 2022 6 985
Women's Bodies Are Bearing the Brunt of Purity Culture 3 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 1173
From Iran, Solidarity With American Women 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 3 947
The Desperate Effort to Silence Iranian Feminists 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 2 743
Who Are We Forcing To Give Birth Today? (Everybody, Basically) 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 2 661
It is great that little girls now have role models so they, too, can grow up to be crazed world lead 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 4 741
A letter to ... my immigrant mother, a girl in Vietnam 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 3 701
Are women's rights used as a smokescreen in Tunisia? 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 0 608
All women have right to safe, legal abortion: India's top court 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 1 626
Women's Rights and Legal Advocates Continue Push for Recognition of Equal Rights Amendment 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 2 601
Ms. Global: Scotland Eliminates Period Product Fees; Poland's Pride March; Nonbinary Joan of Arc De 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 0 815
A Nation Without the Hyde Amendment Will Be Safer and More Humane for All of Us 0 niyad Oct 2022 Oct 2022 1 641
Goodbye 'pink tax': California prohibits charging premiums for women's products 0 BigmanPigman Sep 2022 Sep 2022 2 872
Woman With Severe Chronic Pain Was Denied Medication for Being 'Childbearing Age' 7 Jilly_in_VA Sep 2022 Sep 2022 19 1897

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Cross post from GD...no more tubal ligations for you at SW Colorado hospital. 3 likesmountains 52 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 6 1049
Re-victimization - Rape victims can face huge hospital bills if they seek help 5 ck4829 Sep 2022 Sep 2022 8 951
'Catholics for Life' Ask Supreme Court for Nationwide Abortion Ban and Full Constitutional Rights f 3 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 1022
Fury in Iran as young woman dies following morality police arrest 4 Eugene Sep 2022 Sep 2022 15 1287
'The People's Lawyers': Attorneys General Letitia James and Dana Nessel on Reclaiming and Rebuildin 6 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 5 678
In view of the increasingly insane calls from the reichwing to repeal the 19thA, a bit of history: 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 7 891
US relaxes internet sanctions on Iran in support of protesters 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 0 607
Qatar fund launches initiative to support conflict-affected women 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 561
Abortion Access Restored in Indiana in Response to Lawsuit Filed by Providers and ACLU 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 619
'Guardians of Democracy': Women Secretaries of State Defend Voting Rights and Election Security at t 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 0 539
Women Saving Democracy: An Attorneys General Explainer 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 0 645
With U.S. Democracy Under Attack, Women Election Officials Hold the Front Lines 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 558
Harnessing the Power of Women Voters 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 582
Iran president says death in custody of Mahsa Amini must be investigated 1 Eugene Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 1076
UN alarm as Iran cracks down on anti-hijab protests sparked by woman's death 0 Eugene Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 774
Terri Lyne Carrington on her mission to correct jazz history: 'Women don't get called geniuses enoug 2 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 7 847
(Iran) Mahsa Amini: Women take headscarves off in protest at funeral 1 Eugene Sep 2022 Sep 2022 5 1309
Bodies of teenage Dalit sisters found hanging from tree in India (Severe trigger warning) 2 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 5 767
Iran is urging people to have babies -- and making life hard for those who don't want to 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 665
Sister Nations Native American Women Writers on Community 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 545
More than Pocahontas and Squaws: Indigenous Women Coming into Visibility with Dr. Laura Tohe 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 613
Sex slaves, forced labour: Why S Korea, Japan ties remain tense 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 968
New California Law Protects Digital Privacy of Abortion Seekers Nationwide 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 643
Trigger warning: Why do police rarely chase down 5 cbabe Sep 2022 Sep 2022 9 1346
Family Research Council actively advocates for women to die. 11 babylonsister Sep 2022 Sep 2022 65 2875
'Grandmothers are our weather app': new maps and local knowledge power Chad's climate fightback 4 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 2 845
'Magic in her hands.' The woman bringing India's forests back to life 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 4 814
Battling violence & censors: Women in China become 'invisible & absent' 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 4 604
Iranian authorities plan to use facial recognition to enforce new hijab law 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 642
Moving Beyond the 'Pink High Heels' Defense Shaming of Survivors 1 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 585

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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'Four Winters' Reveals Jewish Women's Armed Resistance to Nazis During World War II 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 2 608
Abortion Rights Could Hang in the Balance in State Judge Races This November 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 644
The Case for Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 0 631
As San Antonio Abortion Clinic Closes, Its Director Worries About Who Is Left Behind 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 0 659
Top Indiana Employers Voice Concern Over State's New Near-Total Abortion Ban 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 2 614
Medical Care and Civil Rights Organizations File Lawsuits Against Indiana Abortion Ban 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 615
CROSSPOSTED FROM GD: Pregnant women held in AL jail to "Protect fetuses" 4 Bettie Sep 2022 Sep 2022 9 1058
Moira Donegan: Jane's World 2 Nevilledog Sep 2022 Sep 2022 2 739
Cross-post: Ms. Muse: Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller's Lost Poems 0 discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2022 Sep 2022 4 807
COVID Revealed the U.S.'s Long-Time Misogyny and Lack of Respect for Teachers 1 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 5 754
White House vows to tackle sexual assault in military amid rise 1 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 3 707
Ms. Muse: Cherokee Chief Wilma Mankiller's Lost Poems 3 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 5 722
ICYMI: Women Just Took Another Hit By vetoing investment in the care economy, Republicans once aga 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 1 632
The Pornification of War in Ukraine ****Trigger warning*** 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 2 704
When Women Were King A new film starring Viola Davis reclaims the narrative of the fiercely resist 2 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 5 623
Ukrainian Women on the Front Lines 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 0 553
'Chaos, Confusion and Crisis': Marking a Full Year of Texas' Six-Week Abortion Ban 0 niyad Sep 2022 Sep 2022 2 544
Internet Reacts To TV Anchor's Firing After She Let Her Hair Go Gray 3 catbyte Sep 2022 Sep 2022 15 1397
"Is the GOP now promoting the business of tracking women?" 2 Timeflyer Sep 2022 Sep 2022 7 1375
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