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“When we were granted asylum, we were finally able to live in safety and peace.
“My heart sank earlier this month when I learned that other women and girls may not have the same access to safety that we did. The Trump administration wants to make major changes to the rules for asylum law.
“If these rules were in effect when I sought asylum in 2011, I would not have been granted.”
MSNBC contributor Zerlina Maxwell and Ms. writer Karla Strand talk Maxwell’s new book, identity politics and the November elections.
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation. This week: a tool to track the representation of women on panels; state legislatures are majority White and male; the likely decrease in the number of GOP women in the U.S. Senate; Angela Merkel’s plans to fill half of party posts with women by 2025; the environmental voting records of all members of Congress; CREW’s upcoming Suffrage Centennial celebration; and RepresentWomen’s Summer Speaker Series.
On Monday, July 6, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—along with the Trump administration—announced that F1 student visas would no longer be valid for international students taking their classes entirely online. However, colleges and college students around the U.S. are getting creative to fight back against these restrictions. Here are some of the legal and creative efforts they are taking to help international students stay in the country.
The Trump administration has not only failed to respond to the resurgent threat of COVID-19, but has instead spent the past few months trying to eliminate the law that has been a vital lifeline to millions of Americans’ ability to access health care.
It’s no wonder Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently described this response as “an act of unfathomable cruelty.”
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation. This week: the likely composition of the 117th Congress; the challenges conservative women face as candidates; training women candidates to run and win; the need for increased investment in change-making opportunities; the movement for suffrage;
In every issue of Ms., we track research on our progress in the fight for equality, catalogue can’t-miss quotes from feminist voices and keep tabs on the feminist movement’s many milestones. We’re Keeping Score online, too—in in this biweekly round-up.
The Child Care is Essential Act would create a $50 billion Child Care Stabilization Fund to help child care centers remain open and operating through the pandemic, as well as attempt to repair the nation’s broken child care system for the 21.5 million workers with a child under the age of six.
Providing child care funding would enable moms return to the workforce and help to alleviate unemployment inequalities that disproportionately affect women, especially Black and Latina women.
The entertainment industry needs to use its power and unique position to radically change the oppressive, systemic and white supremacist culture that persists in Hollywood.
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation. This week: some great wins for women candidates in primaries; why the U.S. lags behind Mexico and Canada on gender equality; Title IX; the benefits of ranked choice voting; donations to women candidates.
