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Conservative groups in particular found power and leverage with so-called wedge issues such as abortion and gay marriage in the past. With contraception, however, they've awoken the sleeping giant voting majority who don't want their ovaries to be debated.
There are lots of interesting answers to what really drives gender equity. But perhaps one of the most powerful and misunderstood drivers of gender justice is this: women's leadership.
Some say Santorum is just pandering to the fringes of the GOP, but the fringes of the GOP are no longer just that.
Alaska has become the latest state to fall victim to the Republican War on Women. One legislator even wants women to get a permission slip signed by the man who impregnated her before she can have an abortion.
'Strength does not come from physical capacity, (but) from an indomitable will." And women have always had that, even when we still considered ourselves a minority.
It's not that men are less empathetic than women. It's just that we are conditioned not to feel comfortable showing empathy.
Fourth-wave feminism is not about "fighting for our rights." It is about coming into ourselves as leaders so that we never have to "fight" for anything.
This month, one of Belgium's women's rights organizations, zij-kant, caused quite a stir with their annual "Equal Pay Day" message.
Planned Parenthood saved my life. I had a routine pap test at a Planned Parenthood health center when I was 19 years old, and it detected cervical cancer. I was able to get treatment, and three decades have passed. Now my focus is on my daughters.
Freedom is hard. It's always required a revolution, and many battles. Let's not fall asleep and sink into a past way of thinking, of living. Let's dig deep within, root out old beliefs that no longer serve, and do what we must to be in charge of our own bodies, our own lives.
I want to make a confession. (This is Lent, after all, and I'm also an Episcopal priest.) I confess my own failures to connect the dots among sexism, racism, and homophobia and my failure to act on those vital connections.
Experts are analyzing and compiling. Advocates are making the business case for everything from educating girls to having women on corporate boards. I'm left wondering -- to what ends?
What if the patient had been his hospital birth patient from the start, and had had this exact same labor?
What is at stake is women's ability to have authentic and freely chosen lives -- nothing less.
With International Women's Day so prevalent in our minds, we should feel encouraged by brave women across the globe who lead the defense of both their human and democratic rights despite opposition stemming from religious zealotry.
You knew when states like Idaho, Texas, and Virginia, decide to do their part to continue the War on Women, the most hateful state in the union, Arizona, isn't far behind.
