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Girls can join the Boy Scouts now 3 PoliticAverse Feb 2019 Feb 2019 1 1321
Will Someone Please Explain To Anti-Choice Idiots That Nobody's Killing Born Babies? 2 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1306
Mother of three-year-old is first person convicted of FGM in UK 0 Eugene Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1415
Forget Trump's border distraction - the real threat is inside the house While the government was s 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 2 1220
It is a scandal that working mothers are 40% more stressed than other people 5 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1471
The Real Cost of Stress and Ways To Ease The Pain 0 spicysista Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1759
Is the World's Most Powerful Woman Finally a Feminist? 2 elleng Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1366
Palestine, the Women's March, and imperial feminism Much effort is made in the US to maintain that 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 6 1029
My website got mentioned in an anti-feminist blog 0 Beringia Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1141
And she lived happily ever after 0 question everything Jan 2019 Jan 2019 12 1224
Revealed: 'dozens' of girls subjected to breast-ironing in UK 1 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1670
Spain's far right hates not only immigrants, but also women 2 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 4 1146
UAE's gender equality awards won entirely by men 0 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 5 1069
Violence Against Women Act extended in bill that reopened government 2 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 14 1351
Mexican woman jailed for miscarriage released after conviction is overturned 1 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1174
Women's March 2019: Thousands across the US march for third year Women and supporters across the US 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 4 1093
Under Trump, states step up effort to restrict abortion access 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 958
How Polish Women are Pushing Back on Anti-Abortion Policies 1 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1094
The woman who was assaulted at a home care 6 question everything Jan 2019 Jan 2019 4 1471
Samantha Bee Full Frontal-- "Women Running for President" 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 4 976
A Bollywood icon was accused of sexual assault. The response was chilling. 1 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1540
"Women of the House" S01E10 "Women in Film" one of the best commentaries on that subject I have seen 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1044
Reading a novel about the ice age, more patriarchy 6 Beringia Jan 2019 Jan 2019 5 1648
Virginia Senate Passes ERA 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 12 1174
The feminist knitting circle in India upending patriarchal norms 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 941
The women fighting a pipeline that could destroy precious wildlife Activists fight to stop constru 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 966
Virginia ERA Update 0 Dave in VA Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1518
Theater project lets women who accused Trump tell their stories The Pussy Grabber Plays - eight sh 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1118
The Late-Term Abortion I Didn't Want 8 question everything Nov 2018 Jan 2019 19 2233
Tara Murtha & Susan Frietsche: Nothing 'pro-life' about overturning Roe v. Wade 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1392

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Nepal: Woman, sons suffocate to death in banned 'menstrual hut' 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1126
Brooke Medicine Eagle newsletter January 2019 3 Beringia Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1423
Virginia General Assembly ERA Updated 0 Dave in VA Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1536
Why a Saudi woman can be arrested for disobeying her father 3 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 6 1314
Bernice Sandler, 'godmother of Title IX' who championed women's rights on campus, dies at 90 1 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1183
Would Peace in Afghanistan Be Possible Without Women's Rights and Participation? 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 985
My Feminist New Year's Resolution 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 4 955
"Coming out of the broom closet:" Denver witches report a vibrant, growing community as witchcraft c 9 niyad Dec 2018 Jan 2019 4 2342
Saudi women to get divorce confirmation by text message 3 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1406
Surviving R. Kelly-anyone watching? 2 Lotusflower70 Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1467
India's hidden years of nuns sexually abused by priests AP investigation uncovers decades-long hist 3 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1206
Marriage licence from 1915 4 Beringia Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1862
City of Women (renaming NYC subway stops for women) 1 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1062
Across America, racist and sexist monuments give way to a new future 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 976
V-Day 2019 One Billion Rising to End Violence Against Women 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1305
Women forced into marriage overseas asked to repay cost of return to UK 1 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1173
Sabarimala temple: Indian women form '620km human chain' for equality 0 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1138
New brew: the Native American women upending craft beer_and a haven for the local LGBTQ and indigeno 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 15 1531
'Shame on this President:' With Shutdown, Trump Cuts Off Funds for 'Vital Services and Protections' 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 1134
Swedish women-only music festival found guilty of discrimination 0 Eugene Dec 2018 Dec 2018 0 1326
U.S. alone in its opposition to parts of a U.N. draft resolution addressing violence against girls 2 Eugene Dec 2018 Dec 2018 7 1233
Japan medical schools 'rigged women's results' 0 Eugene Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 1117
Two more Japanese medical schools admit discriminating against women 0 Eugene Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 1037
The Sisterhood Is Global Institute The Think Tank of International Feminism 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1163
Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Persistence of the Bad Male Apology 9 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 5 1685
Remebering the 14 women victims of the Montreal Massacre 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 1272
Sisterhood, Herstory and Talking Circles: Inside Gloria's Life 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 953
Not Much Has Changed Since The Ecole Polytechnique Massacre 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 966
Ecole Polytechnique (Montreal) massacre 6 December 1989 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 1076
"The Land Where Women Rule" China's Lugu Lake--last matriarchy. (thank you, Kind of Blue) 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 4 1257

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Equal Rights Amendment 2 Dave in VA Dec 2018 Dec 2018 9 1910
Dr. Olivia J. Hooker: Oldest Survivor Of Black Wall Street & Tulsa Race Massacre 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1111
Dr. Olivia Hooker, Coast Guard pioneer, race riot survivor laid to rest 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 1012
'We Have Not Come Here to Beg World Leaders to Care,' 15-Year-Old Greta Thunberg Tells COP24. 'We H 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 7 1454
Patriarchy in Palestine--In Palestine, women have to struggle against gendered violence by their ow 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 922
Australia apologises for barring female journalist over attire 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1072
Torture, reform and women's rights in Saudi Arabia Women are being tortured for demanding basic ri 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1031
The Saudi women detained for demanding basic human rights (yes, these woman are still in prison) 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 1038
Common Performs A FLOTUS-Inspired Medley "The Day Women Took Over" 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 966
One Billion Rising flash mob "Break the Chain" 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 1126
Flash mob: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 932
How Spain is leading the fight against domestic violence 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 908
Protestors prepare to march to end sexual violence against women #TheCube 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 944
3,000 women march against gender-based violence in Madrid 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 940
Margaret Atwood announces The Handmaid's Tale sequel, The Testaments 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 4 1102
U.N. Report Spotlights Amount Of Women Killed Globally By 'Intimate Partners' And Family 0 appalachiablue Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1330
One Billion Rising 2019--Rising--From A Campaign to a Way of Life Manifesta 3 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 3 1224
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25 November 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 3 944
My Revolution Starts in My body-Eve Ensler-- One Billion Rising 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 976
Olympic Committee Alerted to Sex Abuse in Gymnastics Years Ago, Court Filing Says 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1080
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