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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

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

Here’s a president who stood for women’s rights

August 2, 2019 by Georgia Mullen Leave a Comment

Tunisia’s first freely elected president, Beji Caed Essibsi, passed away in July, leaving a legacy of ground-breaking changes in how women are treated in this Arab country. While he was in office, the country’s parliament passed a bill introducing new criminal provisions and increasing penalties for multiple violations against women. Essibsi helped change a law banning Muslim […]

Filed Under: Blog, Women's Rights Tagged With: equal inheritance rights, marriage ban, Muslim women, Tunisia, women's rights

Who was the 19th c True Woman?

August 1, 2019 by Georgia Mullen Leave a Comment

Many 21st century women think they have a long way to go to secure the same rights and privileges 21st century men enjoy. I’m one of them. Still, life has gotten better. Here’s a description of what was expected of 19th century women. It ‘s a good explanation of why Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her […]

Filed Under: Blog, Women's Rights Tagged With: 19th century women, 21st century women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the True Woman, women's rights

New woman’s suffrage book published

July 1, 2019 by Georgia Mullen Leave a Comment

Barbara Berenson, a recently retired Senior Attorney at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, has published Woman Suffrage Movement: Revolutionary Reformers,” about the fundamental role Massachusetts activists played in the movement over the course of three generations. “It’s important to have a knowledge of history,” Berenson said. “What that has shown us is that a step […]

Filed Under: Blog, News, Women's Rights Tagged With: A Shocking & Unnatural Incident, First Woman's Rights Convention, Massachusetts, new books, nonfiction, women's rights

Richmond women: no horses, no pedestals

April 22, 2019 by Georgia Mullen Leave a Comment

Richmond, VA is turning over a new leaf. The former seat of the Confederacy, renowned for honoring men and war, is erecting 12 statues of women, most of whom I’ve never heard of. And that’s the point. Until recently women’s history was practically an oxymoron. That is changing. In contrast to New York City, which […]

Filed Under: African-American History, Blog, General, Women's Rights Tagged With: Elizabeth Keckly, Mary Todd Lincoln', Richmond, women statues, women's history, women's rights

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