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'I felt safe and taken care of': can midwifery startups change our broken maternity care? 2 Jilly_in_VA Nov 2023 Nov 2023 13 1283
I never thought, 30 years after I fled Rwanda, life would be worse for female refugees 1 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 7 1368
Political Violence Threatens Our Democracy. How Do We Keep Candidates Safe? 2 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 3 1056
Rest in Power: Lois Galgay Reckitt, Trailblazing Feminist Activist 1 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 3 950
Domestic Violence Calls About 'Reproductive Coercion' Doubled After the Overturn of Roe 1 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 7 1424
The Last Salem Witch Has Been Exonerated 2 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 6 951
The Republican Crusade Against Issue 1: Ohio's Reproductive Freedom Amendment 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 1 1025
Who Pays the Price for Men's Wars? 1 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 2 831
Why Are Women Experts Still Excluded From Peace Talks Across the Globe? 0 niyad Nov 2023 Nov 2023 2 1727
The MAGA movement would be nothing without misogyny. 1 kpete Nov 2023 Nov 2023 8 1237
In 'Nyad,' Annette Bening and Jodie Foster shatter the limits of age 5 question everything Nov 2023 Nov 2023 22 2038
On This Day: Playwright, journalist, feminist Olympe de Gouges guillotined - Nov. 3, 1793 3 jgo Nov 2023 Nov 2023 12 1579
National Museum of Women in the Arts Reopening - Major Renovation, Bold Exhibitions, Public Programs 1 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 4 1086
Faced with abortion bans, doctors beg hospitals for help with key decisions 5 Nevilledog Oct 2023 Oct 2023 6 1318
'Why must we be silent?': horrific attack in Kyrgyzstan puts focus on violence against women 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 4 1437
Why are women in 'feminist paradise' Iceland striking? 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 7 941
The Wonderful Karma of Black Women Saving American Democracy 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 963
'Comstocked': How Extremists Are Exploiting a Victorian-Era Law To Deny Abortion Access 2 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 1018
A Freelance War Correspondent Covers Ethnic Cleansing of Her Indigenous Nation 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 752
Women Speak Out for Pathway to Peace 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 724
Five Moons Indigenous Ballerinas 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 666
Free Public Event Celebrates Maria Tallchief Quarter, Unveiling of New Statue Honoring Marjorie Tallchief 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 754
Is owning automatic weapons a testosterone thing? 10 BigmanPigman Oct 2023 Oct 2023 8 1541
Peru's Govt Forcibly Sterilized 200,000 Indigenous Women, 1996 - 2001, Why? WaPo 2 appalachiablue Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 1314
Former MSU football coach Mel Tucker uses toxic tactic to defend himself 2 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 Oct 2023 9 1533
Mahsa Amini honoured with EU's top human rights prize 1 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 5 998
BBC Presenter told to suck it up over extreme menstrual problems 8 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 Oct 2023 10 1990
Women behind the lens: the female beekeepers who hold 'the keys to a better world' 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 7 1272
The Secret History of the Vulva 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 7 881
At the National Mall, Artist Tiffany Shlain Is Rewriting Women into U.S. History 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 4 864

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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To Fight the 'War on Woke,' We Need Poetry and Poets 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 661
Devastation from Earthquakes in Afghanistan Strikes an Already-Shaky Foundation 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 2973
Why Sororities Should Admit Nonbinary Members 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 643
Reporting Under Fire: Honoring the Journalists Covering the Israeli-Gaza War 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 645
Today's google doodle honours Adelaide Hall, jazz singer who introduced scat 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 835
Fears rise as three Alabama hospitals prepare to stop delivering babies 14 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 Oct 2023 40 3296
Across the Desk - S8:E13 (The GOP - Making Pregnancy Dangerous for Women) 1 Across-the-Desk Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 1118
An Alabama woman was imprisoned for 'endangering' her fetus. She gave birth in a jail shower 2 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 Oct 2023 5 1330
The Biden Administration's Investment in Internet Will Reduce Barriers to Abortion 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 913
They're Coming for Birth Control (BE VERY AFRAID) 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 817
Who is Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi? 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 660
We've Gone Over the Childcare Cliff. Now What? 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 681
FGM ban in the Gambia under threat as calls grow to repeal law 2 Eugene Oct 2023 Oct 2023 1 835
'No matter what I do, I'm not in control': what happens when the state takes your child 1 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 Oct 2023 8 1102
A Woman Was Denied Medication for Being of 'Childbearing Age.' She Just Sued the Hospital 2 Jilly_in_VA Oct 2023 Oct 2023 6 1462
2023 Nobel Prize for Economics by Claudia Goldin for Womens Labor Market outcomes 1 irisblue Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 768
We Heart: The Women Who Gave Us the COVID Vaccine 2 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 6 1215
Dr. Katalin Karik's Hope in Messenger RNA Helped the World Recover from COVID-19 2 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 1535
Biden Challenges Congress to Take Action on the ERA 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 8 643
How Religious Hospitals Block Access to Reproductive Care--Even in 'Safe Haven' States 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 668
'Hysterical' Women Out for Revenge: Family Court's Misogynistic Tropes Traumatize Women and Childre 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 829
The Supreme Court's Blindness to Gender Violence 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 649
Judge James Ho's Connections to the Anti-Abortion Movement 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 2 868
about heartbeats--life and death 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 3 552
From the Frontlines in Iran: Our Fight for Human Rights and Gender Equality 0 niyad Oct 2023 Oct 2023 0 773
Canada Police Won't Investigate Dr, Sterilized Inuit Woman w/o Consent, Acted In Her 'Best Interest' 7 appalachiablue Sep 2023 Sep 2023 12 1655
Man Accused Of Dismembering Girlfriend Was Posterboy For Betsy DeVos' War On #MeToo 1 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 5 1005
Hell Hath No Fury Like an Accomplished Woman Facing Down a Man-Boy 1 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 3 742
Asian Americans Are a Powerful Voting Bloc. It's Time for the Political World to Start Acting Like I 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 1 1059
Kidnapped and forced to marry their rapist: ending 'courtship rape' in Uganda 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 4 621

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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From the Ashes of Rana Plaza: 'Consumers Want to Know How Their Clothes Are Made' 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 1 1224
Women Lawmakers Have Pushed Back Against Senate Dress Codes for Decades 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 716
Rest in Power, Sen. Dianne Feinstein: 'The Feminist Movement Has Lost a True Friend' 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 685
Prostitution is not a free choice for women 2 Celerity Sep 2023 Sep 2023 11 1210
'Feminist approach' to cancer could save lives of 800,000 women a year 2 babylonsister Sep 2023 Sep 2023 8 1532
Police Further Traumatize Sexual Assault Victims by Turning Them Into Suspects 6 Jilly_in_VA Sep 2023 Sep 2023 9 1903
'Eat your broccoli and don't listen to Andrew Tate': fighting misogyny is now part of everyday paren 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 1 1012
Russell Brand never hid his misogyny. So why did so many fail to see it? Trigger warning 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 0 912
Art as Protest--and Therapy--in War-Ravaged Ukraine 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 0 768
How the International Women's Media Foundation Fights for Women in Journalism and Strengthens Press 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 0 843
Women Reporting on Ukraine for WaPo Win IWMF's Courage in Journalism Award 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 0 835
Brazilian college women's volleyball team win championship. Male students masturbate publicly . 6 Demovictory9 Sep 2023 Sep 2023 0 3527
Women and girls being failed by 'lacklustre commitment' to gender equality, says UN 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 2 1212
Mahsa Amini and a year of brutality and courage in Iran - in illustrations 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 1 817
Dear Men of the West, Look to the Middle East for Lessons in Feminism 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 3 964
Mexico will elect a female president, but Mexican women will still lose 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 0 857
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida banks on women to revive his fortunes 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 1 914
Spain cuts gang rape convict's prison term under botched law 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 0 681
Human Rights Crimes Against Former Government Officials Further Solidifies Taliban's Grip of Power 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 0 766
The Rainbow Manifesto: Towards an Iranian Renaissance 0 niyad Sep 2023 Sep 2023 0 693
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