The Women of the ACLU
(Editor's note: We know it's no longer Women's History Month, but we still have a lot more to say! We'll be featuring a few more posts in April.) Then: Around ACLU circles, one hears a lot about founding father Roger Baldwin, but less about founding ...
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Exposure: A Muslim Woman’s Unlawful Humiliation by Law Enforcement
(Editor's note: We know it's no longer Women's History Month, but we still have a lot more to say! We'll be featuring a few more posts in April.) Imagine the uproar if women were forced to remove their shirts and bras for booking photos in police s...
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States Aim to Make the Grade When It Comes to Shackling Pregnant Prisoners
A few days ago, Mie Lewis blogged on the importance, and challenges, of protecting women in the criminal justice system. A recent report by the Rebecca Project and the National Women's Law Center illustrates these points well. The report graded each st...
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100 Years After the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
"The fire opened our eyes to the tragic consequences of wretched working conditions…In 18 brief minutes 146 workers, mostly young women, were killed. They were 146 reminders that we could and should do better. We honor them for the high ...
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100 Years After the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
(Editor's note: We know it's no longer Women's History Month, but we still have a lot more to say! We'll be featuring a few more posts in April.) When people think of women's rights, issues like the glass ceiling, sexual harassment, or reproductive f...
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Pregnant and Parenting Students Are Still Being Pushed Out of School
Women's History Month gives us an opportunity to reflect on the great strides women and girls have made toward achieving equal rights and equal treatment. Yet, in some ways we are still stuck in the past — as I was reminded of recently when I...
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Pregnant and Parenting Students Are Still Being Pushed Out of School
Women's History Month gives us an opportunity to reflect on the great strides women and girls have made toward achieving equal rights and equal treatment. Yet, in some ways we are still stuck in the past — as I was reminded of recently when I...
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Ratify CEDAW. For Our Daughters.
I was three months old when the U.N. General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) on December 18, 1979. Though I was happily unaware of both the discrimination that women and girls ...
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Ratify CEDAW. For Our Daughters.
I was three months old when the U.N. General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) on December 18, 1979. Though I was happily unaware of both the discrimination that women and girls ...
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Ain’t I a "W" too?
I've been stopped in a restaurant. Stopped in a bar, in a department store, in the airport, in a state park, and in at least three continents. Even stopped in the ACLU. Most times, it's just a perplexed stare, a glance at the gender symbol on the ...
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