Friendly forums for passionate Dems!
More than 93 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»Alliance 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
Proposal to Amend DU TOS Language 30 Gormy Cuss Dec 2012 Aug 2024 13 34919
Happy Anniversary Of The First Women's Rights Convention! 1 niyad Saturday Sunday 6 254
How the global trade in donkey skins threatens the lives of women and girls 3 niyad Saturday Saturday 5 313
Declaration of Sentiments---Seneca Falls, July 19-20 1848 Women's Rights 1 niyad Saturday Saturday 4 207
Feminist icon Gisele Pelicot awarded France's top civic honour: Report 0 niyad Saturday Saturday 3 235
Attacks on Abortion Access Are as Old as White Supremacist Patriarchy Itself. Here's How We Fight Back. 2 niyad Saturday Saturday 5 259
'Misogyny Is a System': Julie Suk Wants to Reimagine U.S. Institutions--and Build a Democracy of Equality 0 niyad Saturday Saturday 8 268
The Seneca Falls Convention: Setting the National Stage for Women's Suffrage 0 niyad Saturday Saturday 2 213
Under Trump, a New Focus for a Birth Control Program: Helping Women Get Pregnant 4 mahatmakanejeeves Saturday Saturday 5 374
African manhood is broken - and it's costing women their lives( Urgent Trigger warning!!) 1 niyad Jul 12 Jul 14 10 880
An Open Letter to Rep. Kat Cammack From a Medical Doctor: It's Abortion Bans That Make Doctors Afraid to Act, Not 'the 1 niyad Jul 12 Jul 13 8 586
Anne Marie Allen tells The Women's Podcast about her gruelling life within Opus Dei 10 bucolic_frolic Jul 12 Jul 12 37 1661
Inside Liberty University's Secret Maternity Home 1 niyad Jul 12 Jul 12 6 629
Invisible victims How Colombia plans to support children orphaned by femicide 0 niyad Jul 12 Jul 12 7 572
'We Need to Shift Who Has Power in This Country': Cynthia Richie Terrell Knows How We Can Cultivate Gender Balance in P 0 niyad Jul 12 Jul 12 4 527
The U.N. Should Condemn the U.S.' Human Rights Record on Abortion 0 niyad Jul 12 Jul 12 4 278
Scarlett Johansson Just Took the Box Office Crown from Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Downey Jr 2 Demovictory9 Jul 8 Jul 8 19 959
The wage gap, explained. 5 eppur_se_muova Jun 18 Jun 19 27 1307
Inequalities across the continent: research, women and health. 0 littlemissmartypants Jun 19 Jun 19 5 642
New head of MI6 will be a woman for first time in British spy history 2 littlemissmartypants Jun 16 Jun 18 7 800
Now Public!! Yay! Here's the video from my local No Kings Rally 1 littlemissmartypants Jun 15 Jun 16 9 864
The women at the centre of Somalia's construction boom 0 mahatmakanejeeves Jun 15 Jun 15 3 586
Southern Baptist Convention Calls to Ban Same-Sex Marriage 3 niyad Jun 14 Jun 15 1 696
Pregnant in Power: U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen Confronts a System Built for Men 0 niyad Jun 14 Jun 14 3 650
House Judiciary Committee Advances Bill to Repeal FACE Act 0 niyad Jun 14 Jun 14 1 590
Plan C's Road Trip Takes Abortion Access to the People 0 niyad Jun 14 Jun 14 4 510
Trump's Cartoonish Performance of Masculine Strength, from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. 2 niyad Jun 14 Jun 14 8 714
What Comes After Roe? Fear, Surveillance and Felony Charges 0 niyad Jun 14 Jun 14 4 527
Entrepreneur 'humiliated' after London Tech Week turns her and baby away 3 cbabe Jun 11 Jun 12 5 919
'Remember the Ladies': Attacks on Gender Equity Remain a Core Feature of Surging Authoritarianism 2 niyad Jun 7 Jun 8 2 698

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
In Canada, A Daughter's Fight To Bring Her Murdered Indigenous Mother Home (Trigger Warning) 4 niyad Jun 7 Jun 8 5 919
'One-Two Punch': Trump Administration Blocks Lifesaving Abortion Care and Announces Mifepristone Safety 'Review'--All in 2 niyad Jun 7 Jun 7 4 710
"I Ain't Afraid" Holly Near 2 niyad Jun 7 Jun 7 8 929
Lawsuit Challenges Kansas Law That Voids Living Wills for Pregnant Women 2 niyad Jun 7 Jun 7 5 695
The Maternal Mental Health Crisis: How America Is Failing Its Mothers 0 niyad Jun 7 Jun 7 3 544
Still Naming the Problem: A New Film Premiering at Tribeca, Then Heading to HBO, Celebrates ...Ms. Magazine 1 littlemissmartypants Jun 7 Jun 7 8 897
So true 8 Demovictory9 Jun 4 Jun 5 2 977
Myth and misogyny: how male representations of the female form have changed the way women are viewed 6 littlemissmartypants May 30 May 31 13 1042
Astronaut Sally Ride's BD is today. Reading about her, found this site which was surprised that hadn't found erst now. 1 SorellaLaBefana May 26 May 26 11 956
Susan Brownmiller, author of landmark book on sexual assault, dies at 90 5 littlemissmartypants May 25 May 26 13 1141
Her Voice, Her Power: The Story of Hira Anwar Generation Girl Code 1 YoshidaYui May 16 May 16 3 1098
Passengers come to aid of woman breasfeeding on bus when man videotapes 2 Demovictory9 May 15 May 15 7 1094
I post this here because it's hitting women 8 slightlv May 11 May 12 41 2235
It really should have been a deal breaker for everyone. . . 1 Stargleamer May 10 May 10 18 1072
sometimes the word "oppression" seems to have fallen by the wayside. . . 0 Stargleamer May 4 May 4 3 710
Our Periods Are Not Your Population Solution 2 niyad May 3 May 4 4 982
Faux feminism has left the planet 2 niyad May 3 May 4 6 893
'We Need a Gentle Anger': The Triangle's Raging Grannies are Protesting Injustice through Music 1 niyad May 3 May 3 3 760
How Trump's America Is Normalizing Violence Against Women (trigger warning) 0 niyad May 3 May 3 3 755
Profiles in Courage: Danielle Sassoon, a Prosecutor of Principle, Quits After Rejecting Trump-Appointed AG's Order to Sh 0 niyad May 3 May 3 4 697
American women and children are in crisis. Republicans are about to make it worse 1 littlemissmartypants Apr 2025 Apr 2025 15 1017
Advancing global development by empowering women 0 Celerity Apr 2025 Apr 2025 3 793
The Perception Paradox: Men Who Hate Feminists Think Feminists Hate Men 3 niyad Mar 2025 Apr 2025 4 1154
'It means death': Afghan women's rights activists face deportation from Pakistan 0 Eugene Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 980
Four Afghan girl guitarists escaped the Taliban. Will they be forced back? 1 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1161
The SAVE Act's Impact on Women Voters Isn't a Coincidence. It's Voter Suppression. 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 852
Twenty-Nine States Have a Not-So-Secret Weapon to Fight for Democracy 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 998
Trump Pulls Research Funding To Protect Pregnant Women From Domestic Violence, Citing 'DEI' 12 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 1793
The Mexican women who defied drug-dealers, fly-tippers and chauvinists to build a thriving business 2 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1297
The GOP's Next Target? No-Fault Divorce and Women's Right to Leave 2 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1248

Women's Rights & Issues Continued...

Title Replies Author Start time Last reply Recs Views
Missing Native women erased: activists reel as Trump administration removes crucial missing Indigenous peoples report 1 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 937
A Challenge to the Health of Pregnant Workers--and the Health of Our Constitutional Democracy 2 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1074
'Money, Lies, and God': The Rise of Christian Nationalism and the Battle for American Democracy 2 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1233
Education Is a Right 3 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 4 907
Biased laws and poverty driving huge rise in female prisoners - report 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 953
Israel's attacks on reproductive healthcare in Gaza 'genocidal': UN probe 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 998
" Days of the Theocracy"-- Kristin Lems 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 788
Paris Paloma, Labour with lyrics 0 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 1 753
Convention of the Cayuga County (NY) Political Equality Club program, 1914 0 Dennis Donovan Mar 2025 Mar 2025 2 809
International Women's Day 1 littlemissmartypants Mar 2025 Mar 2025 8 1310
Secretary of State Marco Rubio Will Be a Disaster for Women 1 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 1194
Women's HERstory Month 2025--Moving Forward Together 1 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 1008
Against the Normalization of Trump's Misogyny 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 948
Presidents' Day and the Legacy of Exclusion: Why Women Still Struggle for the Oval Office 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 3 856
Montana Lawmakers Vote Down Bill That Would Have Treated Cross-Border Abortion Seekers as Traffickers of Their 'Unborn 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 5 1055
Ten Warnings the New Gabby Petito Netflix Doc Reveals About Coercive Control (trigger warning) 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 10 1031
And the Oscar for Best Documentary Should Go to ... 'Black Box Diaries' (trigger warning) 0 niyad Mar 2025 Mar 2025 6 936
CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health 3 littlemissmartypants Feb 2025 Feb 2025 17 1504
Activists call for state of emergency in Nigeria over gender-based violence 0 Eugene Feb 2025 Feb 2025 4 974
cross posting here cuz 0 mopinko Feb 2025 Feb 2025 1 839
Latest Discussions»Alliance Forums»Women's Rights & Issues
Home | Latest Discussions | Greatest Discussions | Latest Videos | All Forums

About | Copyright | Privacy | Terms of service | Contact

In Memoriam

© 2001 - 2025 Democratic Underground, LLC. Thank you for visiting.