Women, Independent Voters Turn Away From Trump: Poll
BIV

Four months from now, the world will find out whether Donald Trump will be able to spend four more years inside the White House.

New Mexico Women Can Still Get Contraception Coverage Despite Supreme Court Ruling
NM Political Report

New Mexico women who need contraception are likely safe for now despite the U.S. Supreme Court’s 7-2 decision which will allow private companies to opt out of providing insurance coverage for it, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico.

Covid Kills More Men Than Women. Experts Still Can't Explain Why
Wired

HARVARD’S GENDERSCI LAB is unlike most university laboratories. The group’s mandate is to interrogate the scientific study of sex and gender; it brings together historians, anthropologists, social scientists, and philosophers. So when the coronavirus crisis reached the US in March, they didn’t have to halt half-completed experiments or scramble to make arrangements for lab animals. Nevertheless, the change wasn’t easy. “We were all struggling with the circumstances of living under Covid and wondering how we would continue to work together,” says Sarah Richardson, a professor of the history of science at Harvard University and the lab’s director. “We wondered, is all the work that we generally do even important in this moment?”

Majority Of Women Support Trans People's Right To Self-Identify Despite Years Of Relentless Transphobia, Eye-Opening Polling Finds
PinkNews

This is despite the ferocious efforts of anti-trans activists and billionaire fiction writers trying to conflate the progress of trans rights with a threat to women’s rights.

Discrimination Doesn't Fight Disease

Written By: Emma Thorp

Over the past few weeks the United States has attempted to combat the relentless spread of the Coronavirus and the process is undoubtedly unsettling. Many schools, including my own, have moved their classes online, and are encouraging their students to practice social distancing by staying at home. Bars and restaurants have shut down temporarily, many Americans have been laid off, and Disney World has closed down marking that we truly have descended into a time of anarchy. Many of us are washing our hands on the hour while working our way through the entire Netflix library attempting to postpone our inevitable downfall to insanity. We are living in a time when one would assume we could all put aside our differences and try to work towards our common goal of slowing the spread of a deadly pandemic, but unfortunately it’s still 2020 America and we remain incapable of having nice things.

Bloomberg’s Women Problem; Boy Scouts of America Bankruptcy; Retirement Readiness

This week on To The Contrary with Bonnie Erbe, our panelists discuss Michael Bloomberg’s women problem, the Boy Scouts filing for bankruptcy, and why women aren’t prepared for retirement.

On the panel this week joining host Bonnie Erbe is: Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC); Frmr Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD); Genevieve Wood, Senior Advisor, The Heritage Foundation; Patrice Onwuka, Senior Policy Advisor, Independent Women’s Voices

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