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 […]
Women's Rights
Miss Period badges: another bad idea
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 […]
University women swimmers told to ‘grow a thicker skin’
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. […]
Women helping women victims of war
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 […]
Will Carli Lloyd kick her way into NFL?
“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’ […]
Today is Women’s Equality Day
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 […]
