“After Fire” — The Challenges Facing Female Veterans
Women vets are encouraged to suppress their feelings and not appear “weak.” This leads to isolation and an absence of support.
Category: Women’s Issues
Ivanka Trump In Hot Water For Her Hypocrisy
At the RNC convention, Ms. Trump came across as deeply concerned about the issues facing working women.
NARAL Pro-Choice Leadership Plays the Gender Card
The threat to reproductive rights goes far beyond the Roe v. Wade ruling. It is a constant war of attrition for those in the anti-choice movement, who are continually working to devise new approaches that will impact the playing field.
Sexual Assault On Campus: We Believe You
“We Believe You” should be read by parents, high-school seniors, college personnel, and law-enforcement (both police and prosecutors). It needs to be placed in college and university bookstores, including those schools featured as being on the wrong side of this public epidemic.
Equal Means Equal: Why the ERA Must Be Passed
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has said, “I would like in my lifetime to see women get fired up about the Equal Rights Amendment.”
Kate Nace Day: Human Trafficking Activist
Under our national law, anyone under the age of 18 who is sold for sex is a trafficking victim. Consent is irrelevant. But in many states, prostituted children are still arrested and treated as criminals.
Interview with Jennifer Pozner: Media Critic, Author, Anti-Racist Feminist
“Whoever controls the media controls the culture — and, by proxy, our legislation, our economy, our lives.
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Texas Vs. Women’s Reproductive Rights
The Supreme Court has been asked to review a June 2015 ruling by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which upheld a law that would bolt the doors to 3/4 of the abortion clinics in Texas. This would leave the state’s women, in an area of 268,820 square miles, without ready access to abortion that was “safe and legal.”
Lauren Zapf: Changing the Dialogue For Women Vets
Female vets must be recognized as contributing members of society, with valuable abilities and talents to bring into their communities.
BUY UP Index Changes the Score for Women Consumers
BUY UP Index is a mobile app which drills down on a “company’s demonstrated commitment to gender equality.”
