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State legislatures charge to side of women’s rights

January 2, 2020 by Georgia Mullen Leave a Comment

While the federal government and some state legislatures have rolled back on women’s rights and protections, other states are taking up the banner, enacting new state laws that protect reproductive health and equal pay, among other concerns. In the Daily Hampshire Gazette, Carrie N. Baker points out these advances, many due to the increased number […]

Filed Under: Blog, Women's Rights Tagged With: equal pay, Equal Rights Amendment, Native American women, reproductive health, Sharice Davids, violence against women, women's rights

Miss Period badges: another bad idea

December 2, 2019 by Georgia Mullen Leave a Comment

A women’s health store in Japan came up with the idea that its staff would wear “physiology badges” when having their periods. Thank goodness there was backlash when the public got word of it. Now the store is reconsidering its menstruation labeling, euphemistically called Miss Period. This is a country where some companies forbid their […]

Filed Under: Blog, General, News, Women's Rights Tagged With: menstruation, Miss Period, physiology badge

University women swimmers told to ‘grow a thicker skin’

October 8, 2019 by Georgia Mullen Leave a Comment

Three members of Niagara University’s women’s swim team are suing the university for ignoring their complaints about male swim team harassment. The women and men’s teams share a coach, who turns a deaf ear to ritualized jeers and taunts from male swimmers. The harassment involves body shaming and sexual innuendo. This story absolutely sickens me. […]

Filed Under: Blog, News, Women's Rights Tagged With: sexual harassment, university swim teams

Women helping women victims of war

September 1, 2019 by Georgia Mullen Leave a Comment

War. The penchant of some people to dominate others by violent means is an ancient habit that glorifies warriors and makes many people rich. Victims of war are an afterthought. But not to Women for Women International. Since 1993, the organization has assisted more than 478,000 marginalized women in nine countries affected by war and […]

Filed Under: Blog, General, Women's Rights Tagged With: empowering women, helping women, Women for Women International, women victims, women victims of war, women's rights

Will Carli Lloyd kick her way into NFL?

August 27, 2019 by Georgia Mullen Leave a Comment

“There is no reason why a woman could not do this.” Two NFL teams have contacted Carli Lloyd, 37, a star on both the 2015 and 2019 U.S. Women’s World Cup championship teams after seeing a video of her nailing a field goal from 55 yards out. Lloyd was just playing around at the Eagles’ […]

Filed Under: Blog, General, News, Women's Rights Tagged With: Carli Lloyd, NFL, women athletes

Today is Women’s Equality Day

August 26, 2019 by Georgia Mullen Leave a Comment

Today is Women’s Equality Day, commemorating the 1920 certification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that gave women the right to vote—in theory. In 1973 the U.S. Congress designated August 26 to mark the conclusion of a massive, peaceful, civil rights movement by women that began in 1848 at the world’s first women’s rights […]

Filed Under: African-American History, Blog, News, Women's Rights Tagged With: APIAVote, Asian American voters, black women voters, Chinese Exclusion Act, Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer, Latina voters, right to vote, voting rights, Voting Rights Act, Women's Equality Day

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