Mass Graves of Women and Girls Found
In the desert dust of Sinjar, in north west Iraq, a walking stick lies on the ground. Strewn casually alongside it are a couple of…
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#2: 100,000+ Texan Women Have Self-Induced Abortions
A new report finds hundreds of thousands of Texas women have tried to give themselves abortions, because they cannot access clinics. This new study…
Read More19 Year Old Woman Stoned to Death
Taliban Stones to Death 19 Year Old Afghan Woman: Recently, a 19 year old Afghan woman was stoned to death after she was accused…
Read MoreJudge Asks Rape Victim Why She Couldn’t Close Her Legs
From Broadly: “Why couldn’t you just keep your knees together?” This sexist question was asked not by a mother from the 1950s, speaking to…
Read MoreLesbians Lose Foster Baby, Because They’re Gay
From Jezebel: Beckie Peirce and April Hoagland had been fostering a baby girl for three months when Judge Scott Johansen order the child to…
Read MoreA Female President for Myanmar
From the Wall Street Journal YANGON, Myanmar—Aung San Suu Kyi is known as the gentle, Oxford-educated voice of democracy, fearless before ruling…
Read More#2: Steinem on being 80, illegal abortions and becoming gender neutral
Terry Gross, of NPR’s Fresh Air, talks to feminist- dynamo Gloria Steinem on what it’s like be in her 80s and the feeling of…
Read MoreHow Can Women Help Women in Business?
From Inc. Magazine: Ice queen, aggressive, unemotional, angry, emotional, masculine. Women entrepreneurs are overcoming these stereotypes by working together. Julie feels that because women entrepreneurs have…
Read MoreMore Women Graduate from College than Men
From Vox: Women, historically less educated than men, now totally dominate higher education: They make up 57 percent of college students and earned 57 percent of…
Read MorePlanned Parenthood Debate Used as a Campaign Strategy
Here’s Elizabeth Warren on the Senate Floor: Are members of Congress so out of it they’ve forgotten how to read charts. Here’s one that…
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