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Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Women forced into marriage overseas asked to repay cost of return to UK 1 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 3 1233
Sabarimala temple: Indian women form '620km human chain' for equality 0 Eugene Jan 2019 Jan 2019 2 1193
New brew: the Native American women upending craft beer_and a haven for the local LGBTQ and indigeno 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 15 1614
'Shame on this President:' With Shutdown, Trump Cuts Off Funds for 'Vital Services and Protections' 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 1210
Swedish women-only music festival found guilty of discrimination 0 Eugene Dec 2018 Dec 2018 0 1384
U.S. alone in its opposition to parts of a U.N. draft resolution addressing violence against girls 2 Eugene Dec 2018 Dec 2018 7 1311
Japan medical schools 'rigged women's results' 0 Eugene Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 1167
Two more Japanese medical schools admit discriminating against women 0 Eugene Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 1094
The Sisterhood Is Global Institute The Think Tank of International Feminism 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1223
Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Persistence of the Bad Male Apology 9 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 5 1795
Remebering the 14 women victims of the Montreal Massacre 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 1346
Sisterhood, Herstory and Talking Circles: Inside Gloria's Life 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1012
Not Much Has Changed Since The Ecole Polytechnique Massacre 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 1031
Ecole Polytechnique (Montreal) massacre 6 December 1989 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 1138
"The Land Where Women Rule" China's Lugu Lake--last matriarchy. (thank you, Kind of Blue) 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 4 1334
Equal Rights Amendment 2 Dave in VA Dec 2018 Dec 2018 9 2001
Dr. Olivia J. Hooker: Oldest Survivor Of Black Wall Street & Tulsa Race Massacre 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1201
Dr. Olivia Hooker, Coast Guard pioneer, race riot survivor laid to rest 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 1084
'We Have Not Come Here to Beg World Leaders to Care,' 15-Year-Old Greta Thunberg Tells COP24. 'We H 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 7 1508
Patriarchy in Palestine--In Palestine, women have to struggle against gendered violence by their ow 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 2 979
Australia apologises for barring female journalist over attire 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1129
Torture, reform and women's rights in Saudi Arabia Women are being tortured for demanding basic ri 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1098
The Saudi women detained for demanding basic human rights (yes, these woman are still in prison) 2 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 3 1112
Common Performs A FLOTUS-Inspired Medley "The Day Women Took Over" 0 niyad Dec 2018 Dec 2018 1 1013
One Billion Rising flash mob "Break the Chain" 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 1175
Flash mob: International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 981
How Spain is leading the fight against domestic violence 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 956
Protestors prepare to march to end sexual violence against women #TheCube 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 1000
3,000 women march against gender-based violence in Madrid 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 994
Margaret Atwood announces The Handmaid's Tale sequel, The Testaments 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 4 1154

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
U.N. Report Spotlights Amount Of Women Killed Globally By 'Intimate Partners' And Family 0 appalachiablue Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1416
One Billion Rising 2019--Rising--From A Campaign to a Way of Life Manifesta 3 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 3 1314
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women 25 November 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 3 997
My Revolution Starts in My body-Eve Ensler-- One Billion Rising 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1042
Olympic Committee Alerted to Sex Abuse in Gymnastics Years Ago, Court Filing Says 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1138
Let Women Be Warriors It's time to stop questioning whether women should be in combat units. 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1077
Reminder: She Doesn't Owe Anyone a Hug. Not Even at the Holidays. 3 littlemissmartypants Nov 2018 Nov 2018 6 2026
And yet, about Mira Ricardel 3 question everything Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 1653
Why women's clothes have no pockets 9 WhiteTara Nov 2018 Nov 2018 48 4778
Indonesia jails teacher who documented sexual harassment 1 Eugene Nov 2018 Nov 2018 3 1317
Celebrating the Feminist Victories of the 2018 Midterm Elections 2 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 3 1164
Not every religion, but always religion. 0 Odoreida Nov 2018 Nov 2018 0 1186
100 Years On, Posters Offer Window Into Struggles of U.K. Suffragists 2 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 10 1128
U.K. Women Celebrate 100 Years of Voting Rights 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 1041
Female MPs gather in UK to celebrate a century of suffrage 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 998
A Japanese medical school does an about-face after lowering women's test scores to help men 2 Eugene Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1594
Half of white women continue to vote Republican. What's wrong with them? 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 3 1267
Review of "Women on the Move; the Forgotten Era of Women's Bicycle Racing" X-Pst History of Feminism 1 TexasProgresive Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1057
Eleanor Roosevelt's Election Day Advice for Women 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 6 1192
'It's like a cult': how sexual misconduct permeates the world of ballet 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 5 1101
We Must End Trump's War on Migrant Women 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1193
Will Nevada elect the US's first female-majority legislature? 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 1 1039
Google staff walk out in protest over treatment of women 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1131
'Idaho's hope': could Paulette Jordan be the first Native American governor in the US? 0 niyad Nov 2018 Nov 2018 2 1133
24 Years Later, Woman Who Was Maligned After Rape Gets Apology From Police Commissioner 1 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 5 1159
Invisibility Isn't a Super Power--It's Time for Visible Woman to Take Over 1 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 5 1125
London's King of Retail Fashion, Brought Low by #MeToo 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 2 1027
50 Years Later, a Victim of Ireland's 'Laundries' Fights for Answers 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 5 1082
A Woman Can Never Be Likable Enough From an early age, we're taught to please men. What if we got an 2 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 5 1495
Ethiopia: Women occupy 50 percent of new cabinet 3 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 2 1425

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Why the US is behind when it comes to women in politics 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 3 1213
Sex and World Peace 2 littlemissmartypants Oct 2018 Oct 2018 9 1754
On the Trail of Missing American Indian Women 1 douglas9 Oct 2018 Oct 2018 5 1349
What is behind the plight of Iraqi women? 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 3 1155
'It was a spectacle': the forgotten era of women's bicycle racing 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 2 1030
Monsoon Wedding 3 question everything Oct 2018 Oct 2018 1 1391
The power of language: 3 CrispyQ Oct 2018 Oct 2018 9 1239
India: Mob attacks schoolgirls for confronting sexual harassers 3 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 3 1290
How will Nobel Peace Prize affect fight against sexual violence? (trigger warning) 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 2 1058
Journalist Viktoria Marinova raped and murdered in Bulgaria 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 1 1133
Feminist author Rebecca Traister talks 'female rage' 4 question everything Oct 2018 Oct 2018 15 1527
Bureau of Sex Slavery For Yanar and my sisters in Iraq and Syria. (gop rape culture, anyone) 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 1 1127
Congratulations to Dr. Denis Mukwege & Nadia Murad - Winners of the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize! 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 3 980
"Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger" by Rebecca Traister - Excerpt 1 question everything Oct 2018 Oct 2018 8 1780
Make a video to send to the GOP... 1 BigmanPigman Oct 2018 Oct 2018 1 1337
Hillary Clinton and Steven Spielberg to make TV series on women's suffrage 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 3 1108
The Woman's Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote " Elaine Weiss (rec'd by HRC) 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 2 951
"Ancient Mother" by Sacred Earth (because we need a few minutes of beauty and peace!!!) 5 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 5 1584
"Women's Honoring Song"-Joan Henry 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 3 1229
"Mother I Feel You" 0 niyad Oct 2018 Oct 2018 3 1345
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