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Title IX: What a Difference a Law Can Make
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US women runners are on fire right now. Why are most of them coached by men?
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US women runners are on fire right now. Why are most of them coached by men?
Being forced to have a child against ones will is a form of female enslavement.
In these turbulent political times, we must continue to stand up for policies and regulations that support funding and broad access to contraception.
While we may not be the main targets of the Trump administration yet, as part of an intersectional progressive movement LGBTQ women must keep fighting and finding offense with the president’s hateful and wrong policies.
The Door is getting a population of teens who don’t go to other clinics for health care. “I go to my pediatrician for regular checkups but I come here for birth control because nobody knows,” says one girl.
“As a queer teen, you have to worry about so much more,” says one girl. With these concerns not being covered by school health programs, LGBTQ+ teens are turning elsewhere for advice. For many, that’s not the healthiest thing to do.
The current controversy over fetal tissue research has clouded the work this organization does to improve the quality of life for the impoverished women they assist in both the United States and 10 other countries.
A lashing sentence for a 15-year-old was overturned by a Maldives court. But a Gallup poll indicates that 15 percent of American women were passed over for a promotion or an opportunity at work because of their gender.
Breastfeeding rates went up in the United States between 2000 and 2010. Twitter failed to deal with threats of sexual abuse made on its site against a feminist campaigner.
NASA has eight new astronauts and half of them are women. But a report shows about a third of women worldwide have been physically or sexually assaulted by a former or current partner.