RH Reality Check’s Sneha Barot on PRENDA, which failed to pass in the House but still received 246 affirmative votes: “While governments in Asia grapple with the serious consequences of entrenched son preference and lopsided sex ratios, antiabortion lawm…
Katharine Seeyle reports for The New York Times: “A federal appeals court ruled unanimously Thursday that the Defense of Marriage Act, passed by Congress in 1996, discriminates against married same-sex couples by denying them the same federal benefits af…
BBC News reports: “The European Parliament has backed calls for quotas to put more women into company boardrooms, if member states are deemed too slow to act.”
The Guardian’s Naomi Wolf discusses: “Are women suddenly running rampant in the streets by the millions, threatening society in unexpected ways? You would surely think so by looking at the pattern that is visible across the nation: state by state, a well…
The Huffington Post interviews photographer Indrani on her work on the video campaign The Girl Epidemic, which is “set in the slums of India” and “uses jarring footage of a social reality in which girls are treated as an infectious disease.”
