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Pro-choice protester

Thirty-seven years after Congress first ended Medicaid funding of abortion, a new coalition of abortion rights and reproductive justice groups is poised to fight back.

Nina Davuluri

The racist reaction to a South Asian Miss America is a disgrace, but so is the Miss America pageant.

Being a poor mother in the United States today means reusing diapers and struggling to afford food. But House Republicans think they have it too easy.

anti-choice protesters

Think anti-abortion crazies are no longer wreaking havoc on clinics and providers? Think again.

In Egypt, as well as in the West, outrage over rampant sexual assault has too often been about political agendas rather than concern for the actual victims.

Child care workers in New Jersey

Women who care for poor kids are often mothers living in poverty themselves.

Adjunct

Low-paid adjunct faculty, who are mostly female, have started unionizing for better pay—and winning.

SCOTUS

The Supreme Court affirmed the rights of gay people just as it rode roughshod over the rights of African-Americans.

Everyone knows marriage is gendered. But divorce is where cultural stereotypes become law.

Feminist army in texas

By refusing to give up on a done deal, Texas feminists showed us what the future of pro-choice activism looks like.

Blogs

Society keeps telling women that marriage is for their benefit, but we know better.

April 10, 2013

Being able to stay home sick keeps workers and children healthy and businesses profitable.

April 3, 2013

The UN says inaccessibility to abortion is torture—and anti-choice laws prove it.

April 3, 2013

What, to a critic of marriage, makes the ceremony itself so tear-worthy?

March 28, 2013

If so, there will be a definitive ruling on the constitutionality of the federal law barring recognition of same-sex marriages that are valid under state law. 

March 27, 2013

Major sports leagues should enlist themselves in the funding of curriculum to break the connections between jock culture and rape culture.

March 27, 2013

Decades of feminist work on rape awareness may have changed policy, but it has done little to change the culture.

March 22, 2013

When you argue that it’s impossible to stop rape, what you’re really saying is, I don’t care enough to do anything about it.

March 12, 2013

We’ve come a long way, but we’ve a long way to go in progress for women’s rights.

March 9, 2013
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