women’s rights
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Equality for women, LGBT requires militant, unified struggle
Following is a talk given in a panel titled "Fighting to win: How to defeat immigrant bashing, anti-LGBT bigotry, Islamophobia…
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Obama administration further restricts abortion access
The department of Health and Human Services announced July 15 that abortion services would not be covered in states' "high…
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Kagan likely to move Supreme Court further right
On May 10, President Barack Obama nominated Elena Kagan, the current U.S. solicitor general, to fill a vacancy on the…
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Family service workers fight layoffs in Washington, D.C.
On May 6, the District of Columbia laid off 115 employees of the Child and Family Services Agency, which is…
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New attacks on women’s right to choose in Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri
Decades have passed since the height of the women's liberation movement and the 1973 landmark Supreme Court case Roe v.…
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Black women, with only $5 to our name
A shocking study revealed to the world that the average median wealth for women of color between the ages of…
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Claims of ‘women’s power’ ring hollow under capitalism
In November 2009, the first lady of California and the Center for American Progress published "The Shriver Report: A Woman's…
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Women’s oppression: Not ‘a thing of the past’
This month we celebrate the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. It is a day for international solidarity and celebration…
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Study shows that U.S. women continue to earn far less than men
A recent international study shows that women in the United States and other highly industrialized countries continue to earn far…
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Behind the conviction of Pakistani scientist Aafia Siddiqui
One of the vile byproducts of the "global war on terror," now in its ninth year, has been the "commodification"…
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