Pages

▼
Showing posts with label women's rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women's rights. Show all posts
Thursday, September 3, 2026

The Indomitable Gloria Steinem

›
Gloria Steinem, "I Feel Proud, and I Feel Mad as Hell" (died 2 September 2026) I woke this morning to the news that Gloria Steinem...
Saturday, February 4, 2017

Back to the Future, Part 4: If Only They Were Making America Great Again for Women . . .

›
Guys Just Wanna Have Fun--Regulating Women's Bodies Thirteen years before he ran for president with a strong anti-abortion position...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

Back to the Future, Part 3: Women's Edition

›
The Women's March--Defending Roe v. Wade (22 January 1973) Photo from Seattle's The Stranger , announcing the Seattle Wo...
Monday, November 7, 2016

Mary Richardson, Suffragette, "Vandal," and Fascist

›
Mary Raleigh Richardson (died 7 November 1961) I've posted many times here about women's long fight to gain the vote and about ...
Saturday, October 29, 2016

More Really Great News on the Gender Pay Gap--This Time on a Global Scale

›
The World Economic Forum's 2016 Global Gender Gap Report The World Economic Forum has just published its eleventh annual Global Gen...
Monday, August 1, 2016

Ida Craddock and Free Speech, Sex Education, and Women's Rights

›
Ida Craddock (1 August 1847-16 October 1902) A dedicated advocate of sex education, Ida  Craddock is a fascinating figure, one who can...
Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Ah, Yes, the Woman Card!

›
Here Are Just a Few of the Many Unfair Advantages to Which You Are Entitled BECAUSE YOU HAVE YOUR WOMAN CARD!!!! Since it looks lik...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

Once More on Pay Equity

›
Equal Pay Day (12 April 2016) This is now the tenth year that the National Committee on Pay Equity has designated an "Equal Pay D...
Saturday, February 20, 2016

One More Time on the Gender Pay Gap

›
Pay Equity--AGAIN!!! I've posted on pay equity before: here , for example, and, more extensively,  here . But this week the AAUW pu...
Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Margaret Sanger and "What Every Girl Should Know"

›
Margaret Sanger (first part of "What Every Girl Should Know: Sexual Impulse" published 22 December 1912) The American birth-c...
Friday, October 23, 2015

The First National Women's Rights Convention

›
The National Women's Rights Convention (23 and 24 October 1850) Earlier this year, we looked at the two-day convention in Seneca Fa...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Lydia Maria Child, Social Reformer and Political Activist

›
Lydia Maria Francis Child (died 20 October 1880) Born on 11 February 1802, Lydia Francis should be remembered today for much more than ...