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Dec 16, 2022 · Girls and Women. A protest sign as seen during the “Bans of Our Bodies” rally and march in Pittsburgh, PA. 2022 saw the rollback of girls’ and women’s rights worldwide. Today, girls and women still have only three-quarters of the legal rights of boys and men, according to the World Bank. Photo: Mark Dixon.
- Reproductive Rights Are Being stolen.
- Equal Pay Is Still A Distant Reality.
- Paid Maternity Leave Is A Luxury, Not A Guarantee.
- Reconciling Women's History with The Present, and Looking to Future
In 1973, the landmark case of Roe v. Waderesulted in the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that it was a woman's constitutional right to make her own decisions about reproduction — and abortion, in particular — without the government impacting that choice with restrictions. The magnitude of this decision can't be overstated: It didn't just mean an end to b...
Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, women made up 50.4 percent of the entire workforce across the majority of industries in the country, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. This means women, as of 2019, women accounted for more than half of all workers in the U.S. — a huge increase from meer decades ago, in 1950 when women only made up 33.9 pe...
For those women still lucky enough to be in the workforce, if starting a family is a part of your plan, there's the looming issue of maternity leave. Although the U.S. holds spot 8 in the top 15 richest countries in the world, paid maternity leave is still a dream rather than a reality for the majority of employed women in this country. To put that...
In 2022, the fight for women's rights is alive and well, and the factors discussed here are merely the tip of the iceberg. This doesn't even take into account the fact that many trans women are fighting for their right to just stay alive, let alone have access to competent, inclusive health care and fair career advancement. Frankly, the fact that m...
- Amanda Chatel
Aug 26, 2022 · By Kate Kelly Published: Aug 26, 2022 1:05 PM EDT. Save Article. In 1972, Bella Abzug, the indomitable congresswoman from New York, got a resolution passed establishing August 26 as “Women’s Equality Day.”. The day memorialized the date in 1920 when the 19th Amendment was finalized, granting women the constitutional right to vote.
- Kaitlin Smith
- Woman: The American History of an Idea. by Lillian Faderman. “What does it mean to be a ‘woman’ in America? Award-winning gender and sexuality scholar Lillian Faderman traces the evolution of the meaning from Puritan ideas of God’s plan for women to the sexual revolution of the 1960s and its reversals to the impact of such recent events as #metoo, the appointment of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, the election of Kamala Harris as vice president, and the transgender movement.
- Female Genius: Eliza Harriot and George Washington at the Dawn of the Constitution. by Mary Sarah Bilder. “In this provocative new biography, Mary Sarah Bilder looks to the 1780s—the Age of the Constitution—to investigate the rise of a radical new idea in the English-speaking world: female genius.
- Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination. by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. “From its stirrings in the midcentury―when Sylvia Plath, Betty Friedan, and Joan Didion found their voices and Diane di Prima, Lorraine Hansberry, and Audre Lorde discovered community in rebellion―to a resurgence in the new millennium in the writings of Alison Bechdel, Claudia Rankine, and N. K. Jemisin, Gilbert and Gubar trace the evolution of feminist literature.
- Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts. by Rebecca Hall. “Women warriors planned and led slave revolts on slave ships during the passage across the Atlantic.
Mar 8, 2022 · The late American author and activist Maya Angelou became the first Black woman to appear on the US quarter, when the US Mint started rolling out the coin on 11 January, 2022. The coin is part of the American Women Quarters Program, which also includes Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American Hollywood film star, the US Mint told Reuters.
Dec 30, 2022 · Looking back on 2022, women's rights regressed in many areas, but experts and advocates remain hopeful as a wave of feminist solidarity sweeps the globe and young people risk their lives to say ...
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Mar 31, 2022 · In 2022, we are seeing Black women on the front lines of so many critical issues. Not only are we at the table, but we are setting the agenda for the entire nation.
