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The Center for American Women and Politics reports that, as of 2013, 18.3% of congressional seats are held by women and 23% of statewide elective offices are held by women; while the percentage of Congress made up of women has steadily increased, statewide elective positions held by women have decreased from their peak of 27.6% in 2001. Women ...
European political elites have harbored a fantasy of a united Europe for the last 160 years, both as part of their own internationalist vision and as a counter to the U.S. — a nation viewed with ...
Among other things, quotas for women were introduced in Article 16 of the new constitution, which guaranteed equal representation of women in politics. [344] Europe: the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention), the first legally binding instrument in Europe in ...
The "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act" reverses course on the woke policies that crept into sports, and we urge Congress to stand with women and girls across America. Riley Gaines is ...
Stokely Carmichael's response to the paper, "The only position for women in SNCC is prone", has been taken by some to have been condescending, [44] but Carol Giardina argued in her work Freedom for Women: Forging the Women's Liberation Movement that the statement was made jokingly and that focus on the controversy about Carmichael's remark ...
What's taught about sex and sexuality often comes down to the edicts of school districts, making for a U.S. patchwork of sex ed curricula that, say experts, is a recipe for disaster.
The Women's Liberation Movement in the UK was spurred on by events within the nation, and globally, which forced women to think in different ways about their political lives. In 1968, women machinest organised the Dagenham Ford Plant strike over pay inequality, while women in Hull organised action over local fishermen's safety. These events led ...