From Women’s eNews: Women’s Equality Day today commemorates U.S. women’s suffrage. It also marks the date the ERA was proposed in 1923. Laura Callow’s account of suffrage and ERA’s “invisible enemies” includes a look at today’s insurance lobby.
The New York Times Sunday Magazine devoted its Aug. 23 issue to “changing the lives of women and girls in the developing world,” — including a centerpiece article by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.
Playwright and activist Eve Ensler writes on The Huffington Post: “What governor – once an actor, then a Terminator, married to a major women’s leader – has the chutzpah to wipe out 100 percent of the domestic violence budget of California, the biggest state in the country, with a single grope of his veto pen?”
Sandra G. Boodman writes for the Washington Post, “When Devin Miller, leader of the abortion rights group Medical Students for Choice at Virginia Commonwealth University, heard about the slaying of George Tiller, a Kansas physician who performed late abo…
Mary Beth Sheridan at The Washington Post writes: “[Hillary] Clinton’s just-concluded 11-day trip to Africa has sent the clearest signal yet that she intends to make women’s rights one of her signature issues and a higher priority than ever before in American diplomacy.”
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