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anti-abortion

Alabama’s anti-abortion abomination

May 16, 2019 Renee Shur Humor, Reproductive rights, Women Leave a comment

If you’re a woman and if your head is spinning following passage of the draconian abortion law in Alabama, rest assured that the dizzy

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aortion

Abortion: as old as pregnancy itself

April 14, 2019 Renee Shur Civil Rights, History, Reproductive rights, Women Leave a comment

One of the most contentious and emotionally charged issues in American politics today is the issue of abortion and a woman’s right to choose.

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Changing Pakistani women’s lives, one sip of tea, one bike ride at a time

March 28, 2019 Renee Shur Activism, Immigration, International, Widgets: Women, Women Leave a comment

Sadia Khatri is determined to change the lives of women and girls in Pakistan—one tea-sipping, snacking, strolling, bicycle-riding excursion at a time.  The story

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wall

Defying religious misogyny, Hindu women create a human wall of inclusion

January 7, 2019 Renee Shur Activism, Civil Rights, International, Religion in Politics, Women Leave a comment

As we in the U.S. watched the federal government shut down because of one man’s fixation on a border-wall boondoggle meant to exclude desperate

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work

The future of work: Who will care about the caregivers?

September 19, 2018 Bojan Francuz Activism, Employment, Women Leave a comment

The World Bank (WB), an international financial institution with a questionable track-record of interventions in the developing world, is currently thinking about the future

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Women are leaders on the path toward a nuclear-weapons-free world

September 12, 2018 Bojan Francuz Activism, International, Nuclear weapons, Widgets: Women, Women One comment

Every year, just as the summer is nearing its end, the world remembers. We remember the unconscionable use of the world’s deadliest weapons—nuclear weapons—seventy-three

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Dunaway

Lessons learned: Kelli Dunaway’s candid take on running for office

December 5, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, Democrats, Missouri region, Politics, Women One comment

First-time political candidate Kelli Dunaway thought she had a shot at unseating Ann Wagner, the conservative Republican Congresswoman from Missouri’s 2nd District. She never

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lexicon

A lexicon of sexual misconduct: There’s a word for what he did to you

November 21, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Language/Words, Legal issues/Law, Violence, Women Leave a comment

When a 94-year-old ex-president gropes your backside, is it sexual assault, sexual harassment, inappropriate touching or what? As women, at long last, feel confident

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sexual harassment

Me, too: a lifetime of sexual harassment and abuse

October 18, 2017 Stacy Mergenthal Crime/Violence, Gender issues, Women Leave a comment

A common form of sexual harassment, in my case, is through technology. Someone I briefly dated many years ago sent me unsolicited and unwanted

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Muslim women and the power of representation

January 22, 2017 Hafsa Civil liberties, Widgets: Women, Women Leave a comment

I distinctly remember as a child once telling my mother I was divided into “half Muslim and half American,” as if there was no

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