

World Oct 26

Women’s rights activists are holding a fifth day of protests across Poland after a top court tightened the predominantly Catholic nation’s already strict abortion law.
By Monika Scislowska, Associated Press
Arts Aug 25

Look closely at this floor mosaic of the pionnering journalist, and a portrait of the fight for women's suffrage appears.
By Joshua Barajas
Politics Aug 18

Eleven female voters shared their perspective about this moment’s significance with the PBS NewsHour, in their own words.
By Laura Santhanam, Isabella Isaacs-Thomas
World Aug 12

An outcry is rising in Somalia as parliament considers a bill that would allow child marriage once a girl’s sexual organs mature and would allow forced marriage as long as the family gives their consent.
By Cara Anna, Associated Press
Jul 07

By Associated Press
Women's rights groups are protesting French President Emmanuel Macron's appointment of an interior minister who has been accused of rape and a justice minister who has criticized the #MeToo movement.
Jan 29

By Sarah Rankin, Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s attorney general, who has vowed to go to court if needed to see the Equal Rights Amendment adopted, plans to announce “landmark civil rights litigation” dealing with the proposed Constitutional amendment, his office announced Wednesday.
Jan 27

By Sarah Rankin, Associated Press
Virginia has officially become the critical 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. The State's ratification opens a new chapter in the nearly century-long push to get the amendment added to the Constitution.
U.S. women won the right to vote a century ago; the fight to instill in the Constitution equal rights regardless of sex is nearly as old. The Equal Rights Amendment was a major national topic in the 1970s -- but…
Dec 06

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Sarah Rankin, Associated Press
A renewed national push to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment has come to conservative Utah, where supporters have launched a long-shot bid to become the tipping point state, despite opposition from the influential Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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