Can we do better than our foremothers? As we prepare to celebrate the centennial of the woman suffrage amendment, we have the opportunity to create a truth and reconciliation process, acknowledging that while the suffragists may have partially won the battle for the vote, they lost the war for injustice.
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Live-Blogging Women’s History: March 22, 1972
March 22, 1972: Equality for women and men, once considered among the most radical of ideas, has now received the overwhelming endorsement of both houses of Congress in the form […]
Live-Blogging Women’s History: March 7, 1910
March 7, 1910: The accomplishments of tens of thousands of women who took part in the recently ended strike against New York City’s shirtwaist (blouse) manufacturers were celebrated tonight at […]
The Mystery of Women’s History
To what extent can we, as the National Women’s History Project urges, “Write women back into history,” without perpetuating factual and perceptual errors? Women are half of humanity, and women’s history is half of history. We owe it to ourselves as women to take a harder look at what that means.
Women Feed Their Families and the World. Why Are They Most Likely to Go Hungry, Even in the U.S.?
To help end world hunger, we must commit to a strategy that for too long has been ignored by global and U.S. leaders: Level the playing field for women and girls.
Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation: As the U.S. Celebrated International Women’s Day, Feminists Wonder—Where Are the Women in Politics?
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: A look at different perspectives on women’s representation across the globe, from the U.S. to South Korea and beyond; women supporting Ukranian refugees; how to get more women into elected offices; and more.
Domestic Violence: A Global Problem Requiring a Global Solution
I joined the activist movement nearly 30 years ago. The first year, I worked alone with no funding in a room the size of a closet. Approximately 700 women reached out for support.
Today, one in three women worldwide will suffer from domestic violence. A coalition of grassroots women’s rights activists, including myself, along with medical experts and human rights attorneys from all corners of the world are advocating for a solution: a new global agreement to end violence against women and girls.
Don’t Fence Me In: Reproductive Freedom and Women Workers
For centuries under common law, a daughter or a wife was the property of the family father or husband or, upon his death, the closest relative with a penis. Whatever was theirs was his, but most importantly the family patriarch oversaw her most valuable asset: her womb. In earliest medical thought, a womb was fertile ground in need of guarding and fences to make property rights clearer, and she to be plowed and planted with seed, quite literally semen.
We thought such laws and cultural metaphors were behind us. But now the cowboys of Texas have put a bounty on women’s wombs. The stakes are women’s civil rights as citizens, surely, but also financial ones.
The Supreme Court Revealed a Lack of Respect for Precedent and Women’s Health—And It Won’t Stop There
The Supreme Court has been rewarding anti-abortion efforts. On Dec. 1, the Court heard oral arguments in a case involving Mississippi’s 15-week abortion ban; the following week, the Court issued a devastating ruling allowing Texas S.B. 8 to stand. Many see these recent Court decisions as signals it’s poised to overturn Roe and throw away 50 years of precedent—all while trying to pretend it’s not.
House Committee Holds Historic Hearing on the Equal Rights Amendment
This month marks the the 50th anniversary of the Equal Rights Amendment’s first passage in the House of Representatives. On Thursday, the House Oversight and Reform Committee held a historic hearing about the amendment to examine the final steps necessary to certify.