Friendly forums for passionate Dems!
More than 94 million posts since 2001
Home Latest Greatest Videos Forums Hide ads Join up!
Home Latest Greatest
Videos Forums Help
Hide ads Join up!
Latest Discussions»Issue Forums»Women's Rights & Issues
Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member Latest Breaking News Editorials & Other Articles General Discussion The DU Lounge All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

Women's Rights & Issues

Related: About this forum
Start a new discussionStart discussion Subscribe to this forum (see My DU » Subscriptions)Subscribe Mark this forum as read (yellow icons will turn white)Mark as read Search this forum using Advanced SearchSearch forum You will no longer see this forum (see My DU > Trash Can)Trash forum Get forum information and statisticsAbout forum
This is a group, not a forum. Groups often serve as safe havens for members who share similar interests and viewpoints. Individuals who post messages contrary to a particular group's stated purpose can be excluded from posting in that group. For detailed information about this group and its purpose, click here.
Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Hungry, hunted, terrified: unending plight of the Afghan women who served in military and police 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 7 1221
Student Loan Debt Is a Gender Issue, Especially for Women of Color 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 3 1047
Students' Futures Are Better Off Debt-Free 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 2 818
Why Barbie, Greta and You Should Invest in a Better World 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 1 1324
Days of the Theocracy --Kristin Lems 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 3 834
Anti-Abortion Groups Are Coming for Birth Control--Just as Reproductive Rights Activists Warned 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 5 1302
Please Don't Gender My Dinner (the whole "girl dinner" trend) 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 0 1016
India's supreme court issues handbook against use of archaic terms for women 1 Eugene Aug 2023 Aug 2023 4 1173
father reads riot act to cashier that cracks a joke when 12 year old buys pads 0 BlueWaveNeverEnd Aug 2023 Aug 2023 7 2214
ERA Centennial Convention in Seneca Falls: Intergenerational, Diverse and Determined 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 2 878
The Bonobo Sisterhood: The Ms. Q&A With Ashley Judd and Diane Rosenfeld 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 0 1090
Maine Is the First U.S. State to Center Survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation in Legal Reforms 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 2 1085
Ursula K. Le Guin Quote on women speaking up 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 7 783
Teenage girl dies after being forced to stay in a 'period hut' in Nepal 4 Eugene Aug 2023 Aug 2023 7 1616
A Global 'Anti-Gender' Movement Is Coming for Our Democracy. Here's How We Fight Back. 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 2 1002
In 2024 Elections, a Ballot Measure Could Amend the Arizona Constitution to Protect Abortion Rights 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 0 851
I'm an Aspiring OB-GYN. Here Is Why I Won't Do My Residency in Any State With an Abortion Ban. 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 1 1427
'Extremely worrisome': Kidnappings of women, children surge in Haiti 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 1 927
We Can't Give Up on States With Abortion Bans 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 0 659
Period poverty: African women priced out of buying sanitary pads 1 Eugene Aug 2023 Aug 2023 4 1133
The Taliban use tasers, fire hoses and gunfire to break up Afghan women protesting beauty salon ban 2 Eugene Jul 2023 Aug 2023 5 1703
How a trial in Texas changed the story of abortion rights in America 2 Jilly_in_VA Aug 2023 Aug 2023 11 1407
Just came across this site. . . 5 Collimator Aug 2023 Aug 2023 10 1712
Idaho has quietly dissolved its committee tasked with understanding maternal deaths 4 Eugene Aug 2023 Aug 2023 7 1343
Who Do We Call To Solve Our Most Complex Problem? Vice President Harris. 2 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 4 1287
African female chief rises to power- annulled 2600 child marriages and sent the girls back to school 3 BlueWaveNeverEnd Aug 2023 Aug 2023 11 1661
The Glamorous, Sexist History of the Women's Restroom Lounge 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 4 842
In Bulgaria, A Loophole In The Law Is Killing Women 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 2 904
Thousands Rally In Bulgaria Against Domestic Violence After Shocking Case 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 5 955
Why We Need A Reproductive Justice Bill of Rights (Trigger warning for graphic violence) 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 3 976

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Global Reproductive Justice Is What We Need Right Now 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 1 802
Rest in Power: Katie Early, Long-Time Champion for Reproductive Justice 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 1 897
Stop Gun Violence With a Reproductive Justice Approach 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 1 690
One Reason We All Want to Live in Barbieland? There Is No Gun Industry. 0 niyad Aug 2023 Aug 2023 1 1091
Congrats and thanks to niyad for 20 years of fighting the good fight on DU! [View all] 75 quaint Jul 2023 Aug 2023 176 13004
Analytic women 0 Celerity Aug 2023 Aug 2023 3 1052
The 'Barbie' Movie: "More Swipes at 'The Patriarchy' Than a Year's Worth of Ms. Magazine" 5 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 5 1441
A New Alimony Law Makes Florida Even Less Safe for Women 1 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 781
'There's no other option but to fight': Iranian women defiant as 'morality police' return 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 5 1075
'Gut-churning': anger as Hungarian president addresses major women's rights conference 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 752
The Taliban has reportedly agreed to relocate the TTP within its borders. Many fear a rise in ethni 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 929
Abortion Is Officially on the Ballot in Ohio's August and November Elections 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 654
Illinois Law Holds Anti-Abortion 'Crisis Pregnancy Centers' Accountable for Misinformation and Frau 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 793
U.S. Clinicians Can Now Mail Abortion Pills to States Banning Abortion, Thanks to Shield Laws in Fi 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 877
'Barbie' and the Women's World Cup: Cheering for Women in Spikes 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 696
'This Barbie Is a Feminist': Greta Gerwig's Barbie Reckons With Her Fraught Legacy 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 1430
Iranian Court Sparks Controversy By Diagnosing Hijab Protesters With Mental Illness 4 Eugene Jul 2023 Jul 2023 8 1408
Across the Desk - S8:E1 (19 (R) AG's See Women as State Property) 1 Across-the-Desk Jul 2023 Jul 2023 5 1362
Biden Administration Takes on Intimate Partner Violence, Releasing New Clinical Guidance 2 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 1122
'Family Annihilators': When Conservative America's Fetish for Guns and Patriarchy Turns Deadly 2 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 6 1185
'Hidden Horrors': When it Comes to Domestic Violence, the Real Monsters Are Hiding in Plain Sight 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 1404
Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments And Rights (of women) July 1848 (175th anniversary) 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 1010
What Black Barbie Means to Black Women and Girls 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 870
'Social media': the harms to women and girls 3 Celerity Jul 2023 Jul 2023 7 1664
'Gut-churning': anger as Hungarian president addresses major women's rights conference 2 Eugene Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 1131
Today's google doodle honours Eunice Newton Foote, discoverer of the greenhouse 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 6 869
Why Menopause Representation Matters: 'Women in Positions of Power Realize This Is Not Something to 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 4 1378
Indictments Seek to Hold Trump Accountable for Threatening U.S. Democracy and National Security 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 794
With increasing Taliban restrictions against Afghan women, the mental health crisis worsens. "I feel 4 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 5 1721
US Republicans pass defence bill with anti-abortion, LGBT add-ons 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 741

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Physicians Share Photos of Early Pregnancy Tissue: 'We Just Want People to Have Accurate Informati 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 1334
Lawyers Say Catherine Kassenoff's Case--and Thousands of Others--Violate U.S. Constitutional Right to 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 1019
Teen and mom plead guilty to abortion charges based on Facebook data 3 BeckyDem Jul 2023 Jul 2023 5 1633
I Am Woman Helen Reddy official video graphic lyrics 6 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 6 1581
Remembering Catherine Kassenoff and Continuing the Fight for Fair U.S. Child Custody Outcomes 2 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 1266
The Time Mother Jones (The Woman) Sent Maimed Children To Shame Teddy Roosevelt 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 1191
An ex-anti-abortion evangelist on life as a pro-choice 'traitor' 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 722
Celebrate the ERA's 100th Birthday in Seneca Falls, Where It Was Originally Unveiled 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 4 957
Experts Say Catherine Kassenoff's Family Court Case Should Alarm America 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 1001
What Will Happen to Catherine Kassenoff's Children? 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 812
Afghan women barred from beauty salons in latest Taliban edict: "Don't we have the right to work or 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 3 1020
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has challenged traditional perceptions of gender, while also exacerbat 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 835
There is a talk, again, about how social media, especially TikTok, harm young women 3 question everything Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 1112
POLITICS & HISTORY: Women Against Women's Suffrage 2 BeckyDem Jul 2023 Jul 2023 6 1245
Morning-after pill vending machines gain popularity on college campuses post-Roe 3 mahatmakanejeeves Jul 2023 Jul 2023 10 1722
Casting menstruation as a taboo is dangerous 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 793
Congressional Resolution Condemns Criminalization of Abortion, Contraception and Gender-Affirming Ca 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 0 1049
ChatGPT: New Technology, Same Old Misogynoir 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 756
Amid the health and economic crisis in Afghanistan, the Taliban refuses to help. Instead, blames the 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 1 1154
Women of the World presents "Bread and Roses" 0 niyad Jul 2023 Jul 2023 2 810
Latest Discussions»Issue Forums»Women's Rights & Issues
Home | Latest Discussions | Greatest Discussions | Latest Videos | All Forums

About | Copyright | Privacy | Terms of service | Contact

In Memoriam

© 2001 - 2026 Democratic Underground, LLC. Thank you for visiting.