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Month: November 2018
Inside NARAL’s Three-Step Plan to Protect Abortion Access
The midterm elections reminded feminists nationwide that the fight to defend abortion rights remains far from over. That’s why, as ballots were still being counted in some states, NARAL Pro-Choice America announced a new three-step strategy to secure reproductive freedom for women in every state.
Walking the Walk: How Janet Prindle Rebuilt the Ethics of Wall Street
When Janet Prindle started working on Wall Street in 1962, she had few female colleagues and no female managers. That didn’t stop her from making her mark—and creating an organization to extend her powerful legacy.
Thelma, Louise and #MeToo
I’m fed up with the Midwestern grin-and-bear-it notion of strength I was raised on, stoicism tempered with niceness. On the plane, the ending of Thelma & Louise made the 40-something me cry because I have driven off too many cliffs in this lifetime already.
Black Feminist in Public: Tamura Lomax on Discourse, Power and the Misreading of Jezebel
“The individual is significant. I think that’s how we get to the discourse in the first place. But now it’s time to move into the systemic, the institutional, the structural.”
We Need to Invest in the Voices of Adolescent Girls Worldwide to Win Gender Equality
Investing in girls and young women is essential to creating a more just and equitable world—yet adolescent girls around the world often remain invisible, silenced and ignored.
Why I Say #MeToo
If I was no longer a victim of my uncle, what would that give me? Ultimately, I found the answer: It made me the strong woman I am today.
Feminism, Aging and Discovering Senior Space
Media, books and the world at-large told me in my mid-sixties that I hadn’t really changed at all, that “sixty was the new forty.” I believed them, and I was shocked by my growing sense of confusion and disorientation.
Black Women are Bearing the Brunt of the Student Debt Crisis
The statistics on Black women’s incredible spending power feels like a stark contrast to our distinct debt crisis.
How the Girl Scouts Helped Make Feminist History Happen in the Midterms
At least 110 women will serve in the U.S. House and Senate next year, accounting for 20 percent of all seats in Congress. And at least 60 percent of them are former Girl Scouts.