On Wednesday, more than seven months after it was first reported that Cecile Richards would be stepping down from her position as president of Planned Parenthood, the organization announced her successor: Dr. Leana Wen, who has been serving as Baltimore’s health commissioner. Wen is expected to begin her new job in…
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After hours of debate that went on until the early morning hours on Thursday, Argentina’s Senate voted on a bill to legalize abortion and rejected the measure 38-to-31.
Afghanistan’s all-girls robotics team has won the Entrepreneur Award at the Robotex festival in Estonia, Europe’s biggest robotics festival, another victory for a group of young women who have come to represent the ongoing struggle for women’s rights in a post-Taliban society, as well as the arbitrary cruelty of the…
On Wednesday, Judge Lee Yeakel of the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas ruled that the state’s law severely restricting a type of second-trimester abortion procedure is unconstitutional, the New York Times reports.
In 2015, a Canada woman identified by the pseudonym Angela Cardinal was held for five days in jail to ensure she’d testify in her own sexual assault case. A judge decided that she was a flight risk, though her actions and history did not back up that assessment.
Women’s rights activist Roxcy Bolton died last Wednesday in her home state of Florida. She was 90 years old.
On Friday, officials announced they had uncovered “significant quantities of human remains” at what was once a home for unmarried mothers managed by nuns in Ireland. According to CNN, the home was operated between 1921 and 1961 by the Sisters of Bon Secours, a Roman Catholic order.
Barbara Pierce Bush, Dubya’s daughter, was on the cusp of adulthood when her father took office. As he was extremely anti-choice for his entire political career, including during the presidency, it’s notable that Barbara has matured into someone who speaks out in support of Planned Parenthood and a woman’s right to…
WASHINGTON, D.C.—One day after Donald Trump was inaugurated, more than half a million people flowed onto the streets of D.C. under a cloud of knitted pink pussy hats to participate in the Women’s March on Washington—a number far beyond organizers’ estimates, and one that embarrassed the shit out of the decidedly …
The music video for “Hwages,” roughly translated as “concerns,” has been viewed about 3.2 million times since its December premiere, and for good reason—directed by Majed al-Esa of Saudi production company 8ies Studios, the incredibly catchy video shows a trio of Saudi women in niqabs overtly mocking the dystopian…
Women have only been legally guaranteed the right to vote for 96 years. And on Tuesday, millions of women across the country—some of whom were alive when women’s suffrage was still a pipe dream—will finally have the opportunity to vote a woman into the United States’ highest office.
On Monday evening, Nancy O’Dell opened Entertainment Tonight with a few remarks about the now-notorious footage of Donald Trump and Billy Bush blathering and, in Bush’s case, giggling about sexual assault. O’Dell, the woman subjected to Trump’s furniture store hump-quest, had no desire to be entangled in the festering…
Polish women are already in a difficult position if they’re seeking an abortion. Abortions are outlawed, with exceptions made for cases of incest, rape, badly damaged fetuses and situations where the mother’s life is at risk. Women are forced to travel to neighboring countries or attempt to buy the pills online. The…
Two years after the launch of the He For She campaign, actress and United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Emma Watson continues apace with her feminist projects. A few days ago she spoke at the U.N. about campus safety, and today she wished bell hooks happy birthday on Twitter. She also contributed to a Global Goals video…
On an episode of The Dr. Oz Show airing today, Donald Trump directly contradicted the GOP’s draconian 2016 platform by expressing that women should be able to get birth control without a prescription, continuing what appears to be a somewhat frantic last-minute attempt to improve his poor standing with women.
Since a rejected suitor threw acid in her face at age 15, activist Laxmi has campaigned to stop violence against Indian women. This week in London she will walk a catwalk to raise awareness in the United Kingdom.
In a limp attempt to convince women that Donald Trump will protect their best interests, his campaign has launched the “Trump-Pence Women’s Empowerment Tour.” Lara Trump, daughter-in-law to the bellowing lump of ear wax, helms this oxymoronic endeavor.
Today, across the United States, women bared their bosoms for GoTopless Day, an effort to promote a woman’s right to show her breasts in public just as men do.
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