Ho! Ho! Ho! Ladies. Commercialism, our culture and the courts have denied you the gifts that empower. Instead, you get a few drops of testosterone, a frumpy housedress, pregnant chads that deny your vote and a hatpin for protection–you’ll need it.
The current partisan bickering and the 50-50 split in the next Senate make it critical that true bipartisanship prevail in the 107th Congress. Here’s a rare story of bipartisan success: two women who teamed up to help battered immigrant women.
Medical leaders are joining the campaign to permit the purchase of emergency contraceptives to be as easy as buying condoms. The anti-abortion forces are quiet on this front, making the change seem feasible. First of two parts.
An armed loner entered a Montreal engineering classroom 11 years ago, shouting he hated feminists. The 14 women who died are remembered by a national commitment to reduce violence against women, reinvigorated by annual commemorative ceremonies.
Expanding beyond its roots in Edith Wharton’s segregated New York society, the Junior League diversified its membership and programs. Now, African-American women have assumed leadership of its international association and two dozen city chapters.
Children’s advocates are calling on a divided Congress reconvening in December to put children first in their deliberations and approve conference agreements to increase federal funding for child care, Head Start and after-school programs.
The on-line exhibit at the Women of the West Museum explores women’s battle for political rights, lest we and our children forget the ferocious struggle it took to claim the territory of political autonomy.
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