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Soledad O’Brien Tricks Opponent Of Women In Combat
by Jorge Rivas on January 25 2013, 11:16AM
US Marine Corps Captain Zoe Bedell and “Co-Ed Combat” Author Kingsley Browne debate the impact of overturning the ban on women in combat.
Topics: National Security, /NOW Blog
Leave it to a Few L.A. Drag Queens to Explain Mitt Romney and Women’s Rights
by Jorge Rivas on November 1 2012, 5:31PM
Los Angeles based drag queens Willam Belli, Detox, Vicki Vox, Pandora, and Ozma explain what issues “real women” should care about and who they should vote for.
by Jorge Rivas on September 14 2012, 4:18PM
Black, gay and female comedian Wanda Sykes says the only way the GOP could possibly hate her more is if she sent them a video of her “rolling around on a pile of welfare checks.”
Topics: Gender & Sexuality, /NOW Blog
The Year’s Top 10 Women’s Movements Victories
by Hatty Lee on March 11 2011, 4:04PM
The Global Fund for Women celebrates the extraordinary victories by women’s movements around the world.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality
On the Way Out, Washington Tramples on Iraqi Women
by Michelle Chen on September 8 2010, 10:00AM
Iraqi women are left holding up half the sky in the midst of a ravaged political and economic landscape.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality, Global Affairs, On Gender
Wielding ‘Gender Card,’ Women’s Groups Campaign Against ‘Political Sexism’
by Michelle Chen on September 2 2010, 4:08PM
Few would doubt that racism and sexism are handled differently in politics and the media, but how, exactly?
ACLU Confronts Denver Prison’s Abusive Strip Searches
by Michelle Chen on August 27 2010, 9:16AM
Allegations of abusive strip searches at a prison reflect the perverse power imbalance inherent in the system.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Gender & Sexuality, On Gender
Looking Back, and Forward, on Women’s Equality Day
by Michelle Chen on August 26 2010, 4:05PM
Women’s Equality Day is a commemoration of history—the 90th anniversary of the victory of women’s suffrage—as well as a marker of the incomplete struggle for equal rights.
Topics: On Gender
The 90th Anniversary of a Women’s Right to Vote
by Jamilah King, Hatty Lee on August 21 2010, 11:45AM
The movements for women’s rights and racial justice have a long, intertwined history.
Topics: Gender & Sexuality, History
For ICE Prisons, a Blank One-Year Progress Report
by Michelle Chen on August 6 2010, 10:45AM
Today marks one year since ICE promised to fix the detention system. So far, there’s little to celebrate.
Topics: Immigration, On Gender
Prison System Chains Women in Childbirth
by Michelle Chen on July 20 2010, 10:30AM
In many places around the country, it’s still legal to keep incarcerated women shackled while they go through labor.
Topics: Criminal Justice, Gender & Sexuality, On Gender
Pregnant Women Dying in New York
by Michelle Chen on June 21 2010, 11:58AM
This year, maternal health advocates got the heartening news that the death rate of women in childbirth was declining worldwide, while the rate of child survival was improving ahead of earlier projections. But while the epidemic of maternal and child…
Topics: Health
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