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'Nasty' Women Beware: Trump's History of Demeaning and Silencing Women 1 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1430
Sierra Leone is on the brink of making history. We must not allow the US far right to infiltrate and stop us 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 1344
Meet the New Feminists in Congress Who Are Fighting Back 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1153
Rolling Up Our Sleeves, Part 2: Enlisting Blue State Government 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1121
Rolling Up Our Sleeves, Part 1: Fighting the New Trump Administration's Wave of Extremist Actions 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 944
Government's reproductive rights resource goes dark hours into new Trump administration 5 littlemissmartypants Jan 2025 Jan 2025 13 2819
Milei government plans to remove femicide from Argentina penal code 0 Eugene Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 1189
Top European human rights court backs French woman who refused sex with her husband 0 Quiet Em Jan 2025 Jan 2025 15 1165
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. An Origin Story 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 1936
🌺Lawrence Tribe (Harvard) & Kathleen Sullivan (Harvard & Stanford) THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT AT LONG LAST 2 Hekate Jan 2025 Jan 2025 8 2172
Misogynistic Tirade at Fan During Football Game Costs Miscreant His Job and Ban from Stadium 29 C0RI0LANUS Jan 2025 Jan 2025 56 6935
Seen on FB, one of the best responses to self righteous, anti-choice zealots. 30 CrispyQ Jan 2025 Jan 2025 105 10680
Which women do men find most attractive 16 littlemissmartypants Jan 2025 Jan 2025 13 4213
Out of Touch on Menopause: Experts Respond to The Lancet's 'Over-Medicalization' Claims 3 niyad Dec 2024 Jan 2025 5 1922
Before the Stopping Starts (menopause) 3 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 1705
'When Power Curdles Into Violence': Escaping the Tradwife Lifestyle 3 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 1417
'The Women Are Talking!' Up Close and Personal With Women World Leaders at the 2024 Reykjavk Global Forum 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 6 1293
'Protect us alive, not dead': how women are starting to be heard on femicide in Ivory Coast 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 1184
'Broken': Domestic violence impacts women, children in Gaza (trigger warning) 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 1152
Ms. Magazine's Top Feminists of 2024 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 12 1251
Flying Free: Wicked's Feminist Message 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 5 6253
The Path to Certifying the ERA Lies With Congress--Not the Archivist 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 4 1084
Girls Join Historic Choir at St. Paul's Cathedral 4 BlueWaveNeverEnd Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 1629
Gisele Pelicot: Finding Sisterhood at France's Mass Rape Trial 2 Beringia Dec 2024 Dec 2024 14 1372
USC Release Annual Title IX Data to the USC Community 3 ellisonz Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 1580
Thousands rally across the world calling for end to violence against women 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 4 1263
Elections as 'Manhood Competitions': Feminist Political Scientists Reckon With Harris' Loss 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 1271
Close the Gender Giving Gap: Women Need More Charitable Support in Wake of the Election 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 1119
Human Rights Day - A Day of Mourning for Afghan Women 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 1028
Here's What the Biden Administration Can Do About Abortion Before Trump Takes Office 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 1602

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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'Guerilla Storytelling' and Joyful Resistance: Rep. Teresa Leger Fernndez and the DWC's Plan to Combat Project 2025 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 904
2025 and Beyond: 15 Feminist Thought Leaders on Building a Better Future 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 888
The Killing of Young Mothers -NYT paywall free 0 Diamond_Dog Dec 2024 Dec 2024 8 1323
Rest in Power: A Running List of the Preventable Deaths Caused by Abortion Bans 1 niyad Nov 2024 Dec 2024 5 1240
Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report 2 littlemissmartypants Dec 2024 Dec 2024 12 1348
Final phase for mass rape trial that has horrified France 1 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2024 Dec 2024 15 1389
Anyone else wonder if controlling husbands oversaw their wives' votes? 10 RandomNumbers Dec 2024 Dec 2024 16 2341
Interior Secretary Deb Haaland Advances Healing and Justice for Indigenous Peoples 0 niyad Nov 2024 Nov 2024 3 985
Is It Really Your Money? 2 in2herbs Nov 2024 Nov 2024 10 1745
It's Not the Economy, Stupid 0 niyad Nov 2024 Nov 2024 4 1079
A Trump Victory Could Reinvigorate a Global Antiabortion Pact: 'Women Are Going to Die' 1 niyad Nov 2024 Nov 2024 2 1130
Christian Nationalism's First Item on the Agenda: Repeal Women's Right to Vote 0 niyad Nov 2024 Nov 2024 7 1129
Trump's Chilling Promise to 'Protect Women' Puts 'Women Not on a Pedestal, but in a Cage' 2 niyad Nov 2024 Nov 2024 3 1091
"But What About the Menzzzzzz?????" is the anguished cry after this travesty of an election. 0 niyad Nov 2024 Nov 2024 5 825
Misogyny: Origins of men's hatred of women 9 BigmanPigman Nov 2024 Nov 2024 17 3567
Ms. Magazine Podcast "On the Issues" with Michele Goodwin, lawyer from Nov 20 1 Beringia Nov 2024 Nov 2024 2 1078
Harvard Grid panel explores lack of female representation in athletic product design 0 mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2024 Nov 2024 4 1386
CALL JANE (2022) - You are not alone (Watch the movie.) 6 Ladyhawke1 Nov 2024 Nov 2024 1 1744
Impactful Female Sentinel Conducts Last Walk Arlington National Cemetery 6 BlueWaveNeverEnd Nov 2024 Nov 2024 24 2289
Cry part one, dance choreographed by Alvin Ailey 2 littlemissmartypants Nov 2024 Nov 2024 2 1208
Can't help thinking this terrible outcome is the result of deep rooted misogyny. 15 Timeflyer Nov 2024 Nov 2024 31 2920
The Rape Trial That Could Change France - WSJ 6 question everything Oct 2024 Oct 2024 20 1940
US women having abortions at the same rate as before ban: New study 2 niyad Oct 2024 Oct 2024 2 1182
This Is What Autocracy Looks Like: How Turkey's Justice and Development Party Turned Its Back on Women and Girls 0 niyad Oct 2024 Oct 2024 5 1018
'The Hidden History of the Pelvic Exam': Larry Nassar and the National Nightmare (trigger warning) 4 niyad Oct 2024 Oct 2024 1 1435
Survivors Know Donald Trump's Type (trigger warning) 0 niyad Oct 2024 Oct 2024 3 958
For Three Decades, 'Remember My Name' Has Memorialized Those Lost to Domestic Violence (trigger warning) 0 niyad Oct 2024 Oct 2024 2 895
It's just men: Men & violence 4 ihaveaquestion Oct 2024 Oct 2024 21 1824
Using a breast pump at work used to require privacy. Not anymore. 1 littlemissmartypants Oct 2024 Oct 2024 5 1427
Very attractive and very unattractive men show the highest hostility towards women 12 Judi Lynn Oct 2024 Oct 2024 51 11940

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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S. Korean court hailed for recognising misogyny as anti-feminist hate crime motive 1 littlemissmartypants Oct 2024 Oct 2024 10 1267
Moms nationwide are leaving gift cards in diaper boxes. Here's why. 0 littlemissmartypants Oct 2024 Oct 2024 25 1501
Over 79 million girls in sub-Saharan Africa raped, sexually assaulted: UN 1 niyad Oct 2024 Oct 2024 3 1250
We are not going back! 3 Stargleamer Oct 2024 Oct 2024 12 1244
'Will I be next?': Fear haunts Kenyan women athletes after Cheptegei murder (trigger warning violence) 0 niyad Oct 2024 Oct 2024 1 1207
Gisele Pelicot (French decade-long gang rape survivor) is a hero (trigger warning) 0 niyad Oct 2024 Oct 2024 2 1151
How Raising the Minimum Wage Can Narrow the Gender Pay Gap 0 niyad Oct 2024 Oct 2024 1 1016
Misogynist Manifesto: Project 2025's Plans to Gut Women's Rights in the Workplace and Classroom 0 niyad Oct 2024 Oct 2024 2 1165
Rep. Jasmine Crockett on Politics, Patriarchy, Profits and the Presidency 0 niyad Oct 2024 Oct 2024 1 1220
Ada Lovelace Day. The First Computer Programmer 5 question everything Oct 2024 Oct 2024 7 1730
Top EU court rules gender, nationality enough for Afghan women to be granted asylum 2 Eugene Oct 2024 Oct 2024 13 1273
(W) Blue State Women Not As Safe As You Thought; CA Sues Hospital, Alleged Denial Emerg Abortion 0 appalachiablue Oct 2024 Oct 2024 3 1166
Hundreds rally in the streets of Paris to support world abortion rights 0 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 7 977
Frances Conley, neurosurgeon who fought sexism in medicine, dies at 84 2 mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2024 Sep 2024 13 1146
How the Nation's First Women's Sports Bar Kicked Off a Movement 1 niyad Sep 2024 Sep 2024 2 1198
Transgender woman stabbed to death in Georgia amid LGBTQ bill controversy 6 niyad Sep 2024 Sep 2024 8 1751
Women, Your Vote Is a Secret, Says New Guerrilla Post-It Campaign 2 niyad Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 1147
Recognising domestic violence as a cause of death: One mother's long fight (trigger warning) 1 niyad Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 1363
Pay Women Athletes the Compensation They're Due 0 niyad Sep 2024 Sep 2024 4 802
About time we started hearing in this forum from the women in Ukraine about the illegal ruzzian invasion 0 niyad Sep 2024 Sep 2024 6 933
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