women’s rights
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Few job opportunities, access to health care top concerns for working women
An AFL-CIO survey entitled "Ask a Working Woman," published Aug. 7, shows that women are struggling more than ever with…
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Interstate Abortion Bill attacks women’s rights
On July 25, the Senate approved the Interstate Abortion Bill, voting 65 to 34 to make it a crime to…
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Fighting against war and sexual abuse
For several hours on July 15, dozens of anti-war activists lined a pedestrian walkway on a bridge over Interstate 5.…
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Welfare ‘reform’ targets working-class women
Maria is a Dominican woman living in New York City. Domestic violence forced her and her 7-year-old daughter into a…
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Is women’s oppression inevitable?
Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard University, faced widespread criticism in late January for suggesting that women are less able to…
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The revolutionary role of women in Cuba
“Revolution within the Revolution.” This is what Cuba calls the struggle for women’s equality.
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The Bush administration’s war against contraception
The Bush administration’s war against women’s reproductive rights has been thrown into the spotlight once again. A Nov. 14, 2005,…
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Medicine, the ‘pill’ and the struggle for reproductive rights
Last September, Suzanne Richards went to a pharmacy in Laconia, New Hampshire to fill a prescription for emergency contraception and…
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Capitalism breeds violence against women
A key indicator of women's position in a society.
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Socialist revolution and women’s liberation
In 1949, the story of a young woman named “Gold Flower” became known around the world as an example of…
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