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Elizabeth Gómez Alcorta—Argentina’s minister of women, gender and diversity—was instrumental in the country’s landmark decision to legalize abortion.
From the challenges to implement the new law, to new topics such as the gender gap in caregiving tasks, Gómez Alcorta shares her experiences and plans to tackle the ministry’s feminist agenda.
Inspired by Kamala Harris, the teen-led Homegirl Project is working to usher young women of color into the political arena.
“When you are a woman of color, a lot of your life and your experience is politicized. But we are really isolated when it comes to politics.
Learning from, working with, building with [each other], that is what really brings change.”
Ms. reporter Lisa Rabasca Roepe spoke with Maxwell just two days after the Kamala Harris was sworn in as the first woman, first Black and first Asian vice president of the United States, and nine days after the Trump-inspired Capitol riots.
In addition to politics, Maxwell discussed how she and her ‘Signal Boost’ co-host Jess McIntosh became friends, and why waving your hands at an automatic faucet might not turn the water on if you’re Black.
The Democratic Women’s Caucus (DWC) is urging President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to use the full extent of their executive power to reverse damage done to women’s rights by the Trump administration, and to strengthen and expand women’s rights.
Ms.’s Carrie Baker spoke with Representatives Speier, Lawrence and Frankel about their hopes for the Biden-Harris administration.
Intentionally and unintentionally, America put Vice President Harris on a well-deserved and hard-earned pedestal that’s higher than President Joe Biden’s. But heavy accolades come with high expectations that are rarely met in everyone’s eyes.
Kamala Harris is being set up to fall short of high expectations. Her inevitable mistakes will reinforce unrealistic standards for women of color.
Improvements in the welfare of children will deprive QAnon of the widespread social insecurity that allows extremist lies to grow. Combatting QAnon will require building a country where rumors that the government is harming children have no basis in fact.
Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.
This week: despite the record number of leadership positions for women in the new administration, we’re still far from parity; Kamala Harris as “partner-in-chief”; strategies to create more open seats where women can run and WIN; Estonia is the first nation to have two elected women as head of state and head of government; Egypt’s gender quota is working to elect women, and Somalia is eyeing the same; suggested reading and podcasts; and more!
After flipping the Senate following key wins in Georgia, Democrats are wasting no time moving forward on key promises made on the campaign trail—including raising the federal minimum wage
In a landmark executive order applauded by LGBTQ advocates and organizations, President Joe Biden repealed the Trump administration’s ban on transgender people in the military.
In his first 100 days, Biden is expected to take more actions towards reversing many of the Trump administration’s attacks on LGBTQ people, as well as expanding LGBTQ rights and protections.
Past patterns and emerging evidence suggest we are going to see a COVID Baby Bust. After all, it’s hard to think about having another child when you are worried about taking care of the child you already have.
But how long will it last and how big will it be?