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WEBSep 8, 2024 · The Taliban Killed a Female Youtuber, then Invented a Story to Cover Up the Murder. By ZAN TIMES. . Afghanistan. . August 8, 2024. Her death came as a shock for many active Afghan women who had thought they might be able to maintain a semblance of the life they had before August 2021.
How the Equal Rights Amendment would Strengthen the 14th …
WEBAug 30, 2023 · It was t he 14th Amendment, in fact (ratified on July 9, 1868), that ultimately provided women with equal immigration rights by granting citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States.”. Additionally, it forbade states from denying any person “within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”.
Rita Henley Jensen, Women’s eNews Founder, Passes Away
WEBOct 18, 2018 · NEW YORK, Oct. 21, 2017 – Rita Henley Jensen, a prize-winning investigative reporter, a domestic violence survivor and a fighter for women’s rights who founded Women’s eNews, an online news service covering gender inequality and other feminist issues, died on Wednesday. She was 70. The cause was breast cancer, which she had beaten twice before.
Teen Voices: How the Matilda Effect Affects Women in STEM
WEBNov 4, 2021 · According to the US National Science Foundation’s annual census (2017), male researchers with PhDs are expected to earn a median annual salary of $88,000 dollars, compared to $70,000 dollars that women at the same educational level. Further, women with PhDs are more often hired for positions in academia, rather than as …
Older Lesbians Reunite, Focused Now on Ageism – Women's eNews
WEBSep 12, 2016 · NEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)– These days, Alix Dobkin passes most of her time taking care of her three young grandchildren, picking up the two oldest from elementary school in Woodstock, N.Y., and playing with the youngest, a 4-year-old, at home. Every once in a while, though, the 73-year-old renowned folk singer still drives down to New York City ...
The ‘Reverse Selfie’: Blurring the Lines of Reality and Fantasy
WEBNov 4, 2021 · The Dove brand launched its ‘Reverse Selfie’ Advertisement Campaign that sparked a public conversation about social media and beauty standards in April 2021 as a part of a self-esteem project that has spanned two decades. The campaign featured a young woman who reversed multiple enhancements made to a …
1974 Rape Trial Spurred Women’s Quest for Justice
WEBSep 12, 2016 · Oct. 21, 1974: Inez Garcia is convicted of killing her rapist. (WOMENSENEWS)–The 1974 trial of Inez Garcia in Monterey, Calif., was a window on the growing movement of women’s rights activists to expose violence against women as a tool of sexism. Garcia, a 30-year-old agricultural worker and wife of an imprisoned anti-Castro Cuban dissident ...
The Truth About the Sex Trade: Entry into the Life - Women's eNews
WEBAug 13, 2019 · The Life Story: Moments of Change is a groundbreaking new website and film project supported by NoVo Foundation that shines a light on the stories and experiences of women in the sex trade—also referred to as “the Life”—in an effort to provide better solutions that can prevent all girls and all women, cis, trans, and gender non-conforming, from being exploited in the first place, as ...
More Than Just Trauma: How Autistics Navigate a Neurotypical …
WEBAug 7, 2024 · When most people think about autism, it is not positive. A 2017 study found that first impressions of autistic people are generally negative, and being misperceived has been found to increase poor mental health and societal isolation in autistic people. Too often, when autistic people are seen more positively it is because they are socially inept savants and superheroes at the service of ...
Why Women Are Conflicted by the Feminist Label
WEBJul 1, 2024 · Steinem responded: “Women have two problems with the label. The first is that people don’t know what it means. . . . The second is that people do know what it means.”. She has a point. One problem in mobilizing around women’s issues is the negative association that many women have with the term “feminism.”. The term has been ...
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