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Myth and misogyny: how male representations of the female form have changed the way women are viewed 6 littlemissmartypants May 2025 May 2025 13 1495
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Susan Brownmiller, author of landmark book on sexual assault, dies at 90 5 littlemissmartypants May 2025 May 2025 13 1555
Her Voice, Her Power: The Story of Hira Anwar Generation Girl Code 1 YoshidaYui May 2025 May 2025 3 1429
Passengers come to aid of woman breasfeeding on bus when man videotapes 2 Demovictory9 May 2025 May 2025 7 1429
I post this here because it's hitting women 8 slightlv May 2025 May 2025 41 2701
It really should have been a deal breaker for everyone. . . 1 Stargleamer May 2025 May 2025 18 1417
sometimes the word "oppression" seems to have fallen by the wayside. . . 0 Stargleamer May 2025 May 2025 3 998
Our Periods Are Not Your Population Solution 2 niyad May 2025 May 2025 4 1321
Faux feminism has left the planet 2 niyad May 2025 May 2025 6 1227
'We Need a Gentle Anger': The Triangle's Raging Grannies are Protesting Injustice through Music 1 niyad May 2025 May 2025 3 1089
How Trump's America Is Normalizing Violence Against Women (trigger warning) 0 niyad May 2025 May 2025 3 1098
Profiles in Courage: Danielle Sassoon, a Prosecutor of Principle, Quits After Rejecting Trump-Appointed AG's Order to Sh 0 niyad May 2025 May 2025 4 993
American women and children are in crisis. Republicans are about to make it worse 1 littlemissmartypants Apr 2025 Apr 2025 15 1328
Advancing global development by empowering women 0 Celerity Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 1080
The Perception Paradox: Men Who Hate Feminists Think Feminists Hate Men 3 niyad Mar 2025 Apr 2025 4 1504
'It means death': Afghan women's rights activists face deportation from Pakistan 0 Eugene Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1271
Four Afghan girl guitarists escaped the Taliban. Will they be forced back? 1 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1464
The SAVE Act's Impact on Women Voters Isn't a Coincidence. It's Voter Suppression. 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 1142
Twenty-Nine States Have a Not-So-Secret Weapon to Fight for Democracy 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1274
Trump Pulls Research Funding To Protect Pregnant Women From Domestic Violence, Citing 'DEI' 12 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 2266
The Mexican women who defied drug-dealers, fly-tippers and chauvinists to build a thriving business 2 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1569
The GOP's Next Target? No-Fault Divorce and Women's Right to Leave 2 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1508
Missing Native women erased: activists reel as Trump administration removes crucial missing Indigenous peoples report 1 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 1194
A Challenge to the Health of Pregnant Workers--and the Health of Our Constitutional Democracy 2 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1323
'Money, Lies, and God': The Rise of Christian Nationalism and the Battle for American Democracy 2 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1521
Education Is a Right 3 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 1169
Biased laws and poverty driving huge rise in female prisoners - report 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1195
Israel's attacks on reproductive healthcare in Gaza 'genocidal': UN probe 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1281
" Days of the Theocracy"-- Kristin Lems 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1017

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Paris Paloma, Labour with lyrics 0 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 971
Convention of the Cayuga County (NY) Political Equality Club program, 1914 0 Dennis Donovan Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 1007
International Women's Day 1 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 1553
Secretary of State Marco Rubio Will Be a Disaster for Women 1 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1384
Women's HERstory Month 2025--Moving Forward Together 1 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1192
Against the Normalization of Trump's Misogyny 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1108
Presidents' Day and the Legacy of Exclusion: Why Women Still Struggle for the Oval Office 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1004
Montana Lawmakers Vote Down Bill That Would Have Treated Cross-Border Abortion Seekers as Traffickers of Their 'Unborn 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1239
Ten Warnings the New Gabby Petito Netflix Doc Reveals About Coercive Control (trigger warning) 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 1181
And the Oscar for Best Documentary Should Go to ... 'Black Box Diaries' (trigger warning) 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1085
CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health 3 littlemissmartypants Feb 2025 Feb 2025 17 1699
Activists call for state of emergency in Nigeria over gender-based violence 0 Eugene Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1133
cross posting here cuz 0 mopinko Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 1001
Dumbest man ever calls AOC dumbest Congresswoman ever elected 2 struggle4progress Feb 2025 Feb 2025 13 1585
New York doctor indicted in Louisiana abortion case recognized as a leader in women's reproductive health 1 Quiet Em Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 1095
Iowa sexual harassment male gets job with Iowa girls athletics org. 0 suegeo Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 1399
Anisa Yousaf, survivor of a forced marriage: 'Parents should give their daughters freedom of choice' 0 cbabe Feb 2025 Feb 2025 3 1106
Sex and World Peace: How the Treatment of Women Affects Development and Security 0 littlemissmartypants Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1142
"Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks its level of 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 16 1265
This message was self-deleted by its author 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 0 664
an Erratic and Vindictive Criminal Was Worthier of My Vote Than a Woman 10 struggle4progress Feb 2025 Feb 2025 14 2455
Women's Paychecks Are Shrinking--And Policy Isn't Keeping Up 6 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1722
T####'s Pardons of 23 Antiabortion Extremists Endanger Providers and Patients 4 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 8 1477
'Nasty' Women Beware: Trump's History of Demeaning and Silencing Women 1 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 6 1316
Sierra Leone is on the brink of making history. We must not allow the US far right to infiltrate and stop us 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 7 1277
Meet the New Feminists in Congress Who Are Fighting Back 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1084
Rolling Up Our Sleeves, Part 2: Enlisting Blue State Government 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 1037
Rolling Up Our Sleeves, Part 1: Fighting the New Trump Administration's Wave of Extremist Actions 0 niyad Feb 2025 Feb 2025 2 860
Government's reproductive rights resource goes dark hours into new Trump administration 5 littlemissmartypants Jan 2025 Jan 2025 13 2686
Milei government plans to remove femicide from Argentina penal code 0 Eugene Jan 2025 Jan 2025 5 1106

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Top European human rights court backs French woman who refused sex with her husband 0 Quiet Em Jan 2025 Jan 2025 15 1089
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. An Origin Story 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 2025 Jan 2025 7 1806
🌺Lawrence Tribe (Harvard) & Kathleen Sullivan (Harvard & Stanford) THE EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT AT LONG LAST 2 Hekate Jan 2025 Jan 2025 8 2073
Misogynistic Tirade at Fan During Football Game Costs Miscreant His Job and Ban from Stadium 29 C0RI0LANUS Jan 2025 Jan 2025 56 6616
Seen on FB, one of the best responses to self righteous, anti-choice zealots. 30 CrispyQ Jan 2025 Jan 2025 105 10280
Which women do men find most attractive 16 littlemissmartypants Jan 2025 Jan 2025 13 3918
Out of Touch on Menopause: Experts Respond to The Lancet's 'Over-Medicalization' Claims 3 niyad Dec 2024 Jan 2025 5 1820
Before the Stopping Starts (menopause) 3 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 1600
'When Power Curdles Into Violence': Escaping the Tradwife Lifestyle 3 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 1322
'The Women Are Talking!' Up Close and Personal With Women World Leaders at the 2024 Reykjavk Global Forum 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 6 1212
'Protect us alive, not dead': how women are starting to be heard on femicide in Ivory Coast 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 1107
'Broken': Domestic violence impacts women, children in Gaza (trigger warning) 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 3 1066
Ms. Magazine's Top Feminists of 2024 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 12 1184
Flying Free: Wicked's Feminist Message 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 5 6167
The Path to Certifying the ERA Lies With Congress--Not the Archivist 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 4 1006
Girls Join Historic Choir at St. Paul's Cathedral 4 BlueWaveNeverEnd Dec 2024 Dec 2024 7 1504
Gisele Pelicot: Finding Sisterhood at France's Mass Rape Trial 2 Beringia Dec 2024 Dec 2024 14 1278
USC Release Annual Title IX Data to the USC Community 3 ellisonz Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 1418
Thousands rally across the world calling for end to violence against women 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 4 1181
Elections as 'Manhood Competitions': Feminist Political Scientists Reckon With Harris' Loss 0 niyad Dec 2024 Dec 2024 1 1194
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