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The women fighting a pipeline that could destroy precious wildlife Activists fight to stop constru 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 949
Virginia ERA Update 0 Dave in VA Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1484
Theater project lets women who accused Trump tell their stories The Pussy Grabber Plays - eight sh 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1097
The Late-Term Abortion I Didn't Want 8 question everything Nov 2018 Jan 2019 19 2183
Tara Murtha & Susan Frietsche: Nothing 'pro-life' about overturning Roe v. Wade 4 littlemissmartypants Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1335
Nepal: Woman, sons suffocate to death in banned 'menstrual hut' 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1098
Brooke Medicine Eagle newsletter January 2019 3 Beringia Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1381
Virginia General Assembly ERA Updated 0 Dave in VA Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1493
Why a Saudi woman can be arrested for disobeying her father 3 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 6 1282
Bernice Sandler, 'godmother of Title IX' who championed women's rights on campus, dies at 90 1 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1160
Would Peace in Afghanistan Be Possible Without Women's Rights and Participation? 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 967
My Feminist New Year's Resolution 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 4 937
"Coming out of the broom closet:" Denver witches report a vibrant, growing community as witchcraft c 9 niyad Dec 2018 Jan 2019 4 2204
Saudi women to get divorce confirmation by text message 3 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1371
Surviving R. Kelly-anyone watching? 2 Lotusflower70 Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1431
India's hidden years of nuns sexually abused by priests AP investigation uncovers decades-long hist 3 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1171
Marriage licence from 1915 4 Beringia Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1827
City of Women (renaming NYC subway stops for women) 1 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 1 1017
Across America, racist and sexist monuments give way to a new future 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 952
V-Day 2019 One Billion Rising to End Violence Against Women 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1288
Women forced into marriage overseas asked to repay cost of return to UK 1 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1141
Sabarimala temple: Indian women form '620km human chain' for equality 0 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1119
New brew: the Native American women upending craft beer_and a haven for the local LGBTQ and indigeno 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 15 1476
'Shame on this President:' With Shutdown, Trump Cuts Off Funds for 'Vital Services and Protections' 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 1107
Swedish women-only music festival found guilty of discrimination 0 Eugene Dec 2018 Dec 2018 0 1301
U.S. alone in its opposition to parts of a U.N. draft resolution addressing violence against girls 2 Eugene Dec 2018 Dec 2018 7 1198
Japan medical schools 'rigged women's results' 0 Eugene Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 1092
Two more Japanese medical schools admit discriminating against women 0 Eugene Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 1004
The Sisterhood Is Global Institute The Think Tank of International Feminism 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1140
Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Persistence of the Bad Male Apology 9 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 5 1607

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

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Remebering the 14 women victims of the Montreal Massacre 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 1242
Sisterhood, Herstory and Talking Circles: Inside Gloria's Life 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 932
Not Much Has Changed Since The Ecole Polytechnique Massacre 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 942
Ecole Polytechnique (Montreal) massacre 6 December 1989 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 1059
"The Land Where Women Rule" China's Lugu Lake--last matriarchy. (thank you, Kind of Blue) 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 4 1215
Equal Rights Amendment 2 Dave in VA Dec 2018 Dec 2018 9 1854
Dr. Olivia J. Hooker: Oldest Survivor Of Black Wall Street & Tulsa Race Massacre 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1074
Dr. Olivia Hooker, Coast Guard pioneer, race riot survivor laid to rest 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 985
'We Have Not Come Here to Beg World Leaders to Care,' 15-Year-Old Greta Thunberg Tells COP24. 'We H 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 7 1434
Patriarchy in Palestine--In Palestine, women have to struggle against gendered violence by their ow 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 905
Australia apologises for barring female journalist over attire 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1055
Torture, reform and women's rights in Saudi Arabia Women are being tortured for demanding basic ri 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 997
The Saudi women detained for demanding basic human rights (yes, these woman are still in prison) 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 1014
Common Performs A FLOTUS-Inspired Medley "The Day Women Took Over" 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 943
One Billion Rising flash mob "Break the Chain" 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 1112
Flash mob: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 910
How Spain is leading the fight against domestic violence 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 889
Protestors prepare to march to end sexual violence against women #TheCube 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 916
3,000 women march against gender-based violence in Madrid 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 922
Margaret Atwood announces The Handmaid's Tale sequel, The Testaments 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 4 1077
U.N. Report Spotlights Amount Of Women Killed Globally By 'Intimate Partners' And Family 0 appalachiablue Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1291
One Billion Rising 2019--Rising--From A Campaign to a Way of Life Manifesta 3 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 3 1185
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25 November 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 3 921
My Revolution Starts in My body-Eve Ensler-- One Billion Rising 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 961
Olympic Committee Alerted to Sex Abuse in Gymnastics Years Ago, Court Filing Says 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1064
Let Women Be Warriors It's time to stop questioning whether women should be in combat units. 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 983
Reminder: She Doesn't Owe Anyone a Hug. Not Even at the Holidays. 3 littlemissmartypants Nov 2018 Nov 2018 6 1795
And yet, about Mira Ricardel 3 question everything Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 1543
Why women's clothes have no pockets 9 WhiteTara Nov 2018 Nov 2018 48 4551
Indonesia jails teacher who documented sexual harassment 1 Eugene Nov 2018 Nov 2018 3 1238

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Celebrating the Feminist Victories of the 2018 Midterm Elections 2 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 3 1065
Not every religion, but always religion. 0 Odoreida Nov 2018 Nov 2018 0 1115
100 Years On, Posters Offer Window Into Struggles of U.K. Suffragists 2 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 10 1031
U.K. Women Celebrate 100 Years of Voting Rights 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 968
Female MPs gather in UK to celebrate a century of suffrage 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 925
A Japanese medical school does an about-face after lowering women's test scores to help men 2 Eugene Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1484
Half of white women continue to vote Republican. What's wrong with them? 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 3 1191
Review of "Women on the Move; the Forgotten Era of Women's Bicycle Racing" X-Pst History of Feminism 1 TexasProgresive Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 992
Eleanor Roosevelt's Election Day Advice for Women 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 6 1121
'It's like a cult': how sexual misconduct permeates the world of ballet 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 5 1025
We Must End Trump's War on Migrant Women 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1108
Will Nevada elect the US's first female-majority legislature? 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 956
Google staff walk out in protest over treatment of women 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1048
'Idaho's hope': could Paulette Jordan be the first Native American governor in the US? 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1047
24 Years Later, Woman Who Was Maligned After Rape Gets Apology From Police Commissioner 1 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 5 1072
Invisibility Isn't a Super Power--It's Time for Visible Woman to Take Over 1 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 5 1028
London's King of Retail Fashion, Brought Low by #MeToo 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 2 954
50 Years Later, a Victim of Ireland's 'Laundries' Fights for Answers 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 5 997
A Woman Can Never Be Likable Enough From an early age, we're taught to please men. What if we got an 2 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 5 1376
Ethiopia: Women occupy 50 percent of new cabinet 3 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 2 1288
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