Anti-violence legislation may never be perfect, and many of the neediest women will suffer without ever knowing what recourse the law guarantees them. That’s a tragedy. But when survivors, advocacy groups and legislators can pinpoint ways to expand legal protections and improve programs to those underserved populations, responsible lawmakers should follow through.
Feminists must closely examine what I am calling the Romney-Ryan budget plan because, while not the juiciest topic around, it touches every aspect of a woman’s life, including her reproductive health.
Today the subject is the Penn State football program, but it could just as easily be the Catholic Church or the U.S. military or any institution that enjoys a faithful following. The many individuals who are the real strength of these institutions — the players, the churchgoers, the troops — are mostly innocent bystanders or collateral damage in these terrible scandals.
Sudarsan Raghavan writes for The Washington Post: “Balki Souley lost her son during childbirth the other day…Married at 12, Balki is now 14 years old. Niger has the world’s highest rate of child marriage, with roughly one out of two girls marrying befo…
Amazingly, Duke was honored for supporting women. But the facts are not on his side. Duke’s company recently spent 10 years fighting the largest gender discrimination class action lawsuit in U.S. history.
The nation’s largest annual gathering of grassroots women’s rights activists and allies will take place in Baltimore, Md., on June 29 – July 1, 2012 at the National Organization for Women National Conference. Hundreds of women and men will convene to strategize and organize a vision for the months ahead in the fight for women’s equality.
The nation’s largest annual gathering of grassroots women’s rights activists and allies will take place in Baltimore, Md., on June 29 – July 1, 2012 at the National Organization for Women National Conference. Hundreds of women and men will convene to strategize and organize a vision for the months ahead in the fight for women’s equality.
Mississippians will vote on the statewide question: “Should the term ‘person’ be defined to include every human being from the moment of fertilization, cloning, or the equivalent thereof?” This dangerously radical ballot measure would outlaw abortion and some widely used forms of contraception, placing women’s lives in grave danger.
While the recession was particularly tough on men, the economic “recovery” has been extremely unkind to women. Since the recession officially ended in June 2009, women have lost 345,000 jobs and counting. The job gap between women and men is now 1.5 million, with women’s unemployment rate growing while men’s declines.
NOW and allied organizations representing millions of women are coming together through HERvotes to mobilize women voters for the 2012 elections in order to protect and advance women’s Health and Economic Rights.