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The Women's March [11] [12] [13] [a] was a worldwide protest on January 21, 2017, the day after the first inauguration of Donald Trump as the president of the United States. It was prompted by Trump's policy positions and rhetoric, which were and are seen as misogynistic and representative as a threat to the rights of women .
California: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Wisconsin: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Oregon: Unmarried women are given the right to own land. [14] Tennessee: Tennessee becomes the first state in the United States to explicitly outlaw wife beating. [15] [16] 1852
Vicki Power also mentions that the film "reminds us of her ground-breaking Beijing speech of 20 years ago in which she exhorted the world's leaders to treat women's rights as human rights". She wrote in The Daily Telegraph that "the film is an admirable consciousness-raising exercise pointing out that violations against women in the 21st ...
United States: The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, also known as the Matthew Shepard Act, is an American Act of Congress, passed on 22 October, [198] and signed into law by President Barack Obama on 28 October [199] as a rider to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2010 (H.R. 2647).
In 2021, she announced the launch of "We, As Ourselves"with actor Jurnee Smollet and in partnership with the National Women's Law Center and the TIME'S UP Foundation. She aims to reshape the ...
Abortion opponents “found out” about the “power of women” “when reproductive freedom was on the ballot and won in 2022, 2023, and they will find out again, in 2024,” Biden said.
A Day Without a Woman was a strike action held on March 8, 2017, on International Women's Day.The strike, which was organized by two different groups—the 2017 Women's March and a separate International Women's Strike movement—asked that women not work that day to protest the policies of the administration of Donald Trump.
Key takeaways. Women and minorities faced credit discrimination for decades. The Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974 made it easier for both groups to obtain credit cards and loans.