Womens Rights Movement

Penny-Wise and Pound-Foolish: Proposed Funding Cuts for Response to Violence Against Women

Marianne Mollmann | Posted 02.01.2012

Read More: Violence Against Women Act, Human Rights, Violence Against Women, Vawa, Patrick Leahy, Mike Crapo, Amnesty International, Women's Rights Movement, Domestic Violence, Politics News
Marianne Mollmann

Domestic violence is a continuing, costly, and consistently underserved problem. Cutting federal funds for dealing with it is not only bad news, it is a bad idea.

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From Hope to History: It's Time to Pass the Equal Rights Amendment

Barbara Hannah Grufferman | Posted 08.31.2011

Read More: Wal Mart, Women, Michelle Obama, President Obama, The Best of Everything After 50, Gloria Steinem, Lady GaGa, Women's Empowerment, Equal Rights Amendment, Senator Robert Menendez, Politics, Feminism, Constitution, Era, Oprah, Feminist.com, Carolyn Maloney Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Now, Women's Rights Movement, Women News
Barbara Hannah Grufferman

My two teenaged daughters want to know why we have failed them. They want to know why -- in 2011 -- the U.S. Constitution still does not state that men and women are equal. What do I tell them?

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The Women's Deliberation Movement

Shelley Hendrix Reynolds | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abigail Adams, 19th-Amendment, Sewell-Belmont House and Museum, H. J. Res 61, Carolyn Maloney, Equal Rights Amendment, 19th Amendment, Women's Equality, Judy Biggert, National Women's Party, Mount Holyoke College, Equal-Rights-Amendment, Sojourner Truth, 1848 Women's Congress, Lucretia Mott, 28th Amendment, Era, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, John Adams, Women's Rights Movement, Susan B. Anthony, Sewell-Belmont House, Alice Paul, Women's Liberation, Politics News
Shelley Hendrix Reynolds

In this era, we can no longer afford for deliberation, defined as "leisureliness of movement or action; slowness" to define us as women.

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Women's Rights are Human Rights

Lisa A. Crooms | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Women?S History Month, Women's Rights Movement, Politics News
Lisa A. Crooms

We urge Secretary Clinton and the Obama Administration to add a new component to the common understanding of human rights, and begin to think about how human rights are parts of our daily lives.

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Women at a Crossroads

Kathy Bushkin Calvin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gender Equality, Women's Rights, United Nations Adolescent Girls Task Force, Global Women's Movement, Female Leaders, UN Adolescent Girls Task Force, International Women's Movement, Women's Rights Movement, Women Leaders, World News
Kathy Bushkin Calvin

Women around the world are at a crossroads today. At no point in recent memory have more women simultaneously occupied the halls of power and been left stranded on the street.

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Liberal Causes: What Happened To Women?

Katha Pollitt | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Women's Equality, What Happened to Women, Liberals, Women's Rights Movement, Feminism, Equal Opportunity, Katha Pollitt, Equal Pay, Politics News

On August 26, 1970, thousands of women marched down New York's Fifth Avenue as part of the nationwide Women's Strike for Equality. ... Forty yea...

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Women's Rights and Gay Rights: What Can Be Learned in the Quest for Equality

Kristina Schake | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Women's Rights Movement, Gay Rights Movement, Gay Rights, Gay Marriage, Marriage Equality, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News
Kristina Schake

The gay rights movement has gained speed and that same generation of young people who are daring to dream for more are overwhelmingly in favor of equal rights in all regards.

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