Let’s Give the Flag a Hand
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I’m asking all supporters of gender equality to consider placing your right hands over your mouths, instead of your hearts, when the national anthem plays.
Canada
Why Do We Need Gender Parity? ‘Because It’s 2015’
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Gender stereotypes and beliefs in male superiority are still freely expressed in the U.S. When girls get social cues to doubt their abilities that shows up in measurable ways. Just check the latest Global Gender Gap report.
Equality
NYC Launches Initiative Focused on Young Women of Color
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With the hashtag #SheWillBe, the new initiative focuses on improving young women’s access to jobs, health care and education, taking into account how race, gender and sexual identity differently impact women.
Equality
For India’s Threatened Koraga, a Heroine Emerges
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As a schoolgirl she had to pick up the teacher’s shoes and stand outside the classroom. Now Sabitha Koraga is the inspirational figure in a film that in July will start being shown in government and government-aided schools.
China
‘Feminist 5’ Arrests Warning for China’s Feminists
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In China, feminism made strides for many years when other types of political discourse was discouraged. But now the government is methodically isolating independent voices. This time there is no special pass for women.
Equality
For the Solid Core of #CoolFeminism, Check Iceland
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Here’s where you find women relishing their fight for equality whether that means skirmishing against outlawed strip clubs or waging huge job walkouts. The exuberance of the U.N. panel befitted a country that raises a global beacon for girls and women.
Equality
This Women’s Movement, Now, Is for Everyone
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In a first for a State of the Union address, President Obama put a central focus on the role of women in the economy. But his message about needing child care as a national economic priority wasn’t just for women. It was for everybody.
Equality
Patricia Arquette (and All U.S. Women) Need ERA Now
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Now that Arquette has called out the naked emperor, the question is, who will provide the leadership to harness the groundswell of energy released by her battle cry? This is the moment to push for the ERA.
Equality
Jordan Mothers Hope for Full Citizenship Rights
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“I feel that I am a citizen with a quarantined identity. I cannot pass it on to anyone,” says a woman married to a man who is not Jordanian. The government’s late-December reform disappointed her and other activists.
Equality
This Movie is a Beautiful Call to Anger, Action
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“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” brings second-wave feminism dramatically back to life without any false sainthood. It links all of us together and intimates that it’s time for us third- and fourth-wave feminists to take to the streets, too.