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Activists on both sides rushed to Twitter when the Supreme Court agreed to hear two cases this spring that are classic conflicts between religious beliefs and women’s right to unbiased health care.
A Twitter barrage by the Service Women’s Action Network began by targeting 53 senators not openly supporting a bill on sexual assault in the military, expected to be voted on last week. However, no vote was taken, leaving the path forward unclear.
Amanda Leve has run into a problem trying to join her all-male wrestling team at Archbishop Ryan High School in Philadelphia. Title IX still says that a school can keep contact sports single-sex for “intimacy” reasons.
Judges delivered partial victories for legal activists working to block abortion restrictions in Texas and Oklahoma. But the fight goes on in Texas where state officials are battling back and medication abortions face two new, high hurdles.
In two recent gallery shows in New York female artists of Indian heritage emphasized the universal appeal and power of female Hindu deities. In India, taking such artistic license can stir controversy over crossing a religious line.
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News of the president’s nomination of the No. 2 person at the Fed was warmly greeted on Twitter and online news sites. Yellen is on course to be the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve.
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand was among those cheering women on to Obamacare enrollment. “Being a woman is no longer a preexisting condition,” the New York Democrat said in one tweet.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks at a high-level meeting on Millennium Development Goal 5 to improve maternal health on Sept. 23, 2013.
A month-long survey of female journalists about the dangers they face on assignment just ended and will be the basis of safety remedies designed by UNESCO. Two days after it launched, a 22-year-old photojournalist was gang raped while on assignment in Mumbai.
The U.S. poverty rate for 2012 may be stable at about 15 percent but a report out on the same day as the census data finds an alarmingly high rate of economic insecurity among Americans, particularly women.