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The film looks at whether any progress has been made with treating women's rights as human rights, since twenty years ago, when in 1995, Hillary Clinton made a groundbreaking speech at the Fourth Women's Conference in Beijing. It features interviews with the only three women to have held the position of Secretary of State, as of 2015.
For Arab women, Islam included the prohibition of female infanticide and recognizing women's full personhood. [72] Women generally gained greater rights than women in pre-Islamic Arabia [73] [74] and medieval Europe. [75] Women were not accorded such legal status in other cultures until centuries later. [76]
The Human Rights Campaign and ACLU said they had received reports that transgender women were being transferred to men's prisons, told they would be, or moved to solitary confinement. [37] [29] The legal director of the HRC said the court orders granting inmates access to gender affirming care remain in effect despite federal policy changes. [29]
In the US, only 25% of men between the ages of 18 and 29 identify as politically liberal, while 40% of women in the same age group do, according to a recent Gallup poll.
The resolution, "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women", reads, in part: [1] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States ...
According to data from the Economic Policy Institute, the median earnings of full-time, full- year workers for black men is about $5,000 higher than the earnings of Black women. [89] In the top 25 states with the largest numbers of Black women working full-time, year-round, the pay compared to white men ranges from about 48 to 68 cents for ...
Women in six U.S. states are now effectively allowed to be topless in public, according to a new ruling by the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. 'Free the Nipple' movement: Women can now legally ...
Women's reproductive health in the United States refers to the set of physical, mental, and social issues related to the health of women in the United States. It includes the rights of women in the United States to adequate sexual health, available contraception methods, and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases.