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A protected group, protected class (US), or prohibited ground (Canada) is a category by which people are qualified for special protection by a law, policy, or similar authority. In Canada and the United States, the term is frequently used in connection with employees and employment and housing .
Misogyny need not mean hostility to women universally, or even very generally. Instead, misogynist terrorists often express a desire to target women of a particular type, either as revenge for perceived slights or because of a perceived connection between the targeted women and feminism. However, the women targeted have no actual connection to ...
Florida politicians thought they could get away with imposing on women a near-ban on abortion, but voters want a say and are demanding a constitutional rights amendment be placed on the Nov. 2024 ...
In 2014, Michigan law prohibited all public and most private insurers from covering abortions including in cases of rape and incest. [118] It requires women to buy separate insurance and has been called "rape insurance" by opponents because of the possibility that women will need to have separate insurance for an abortion resulting from rape.
fetal protection policies impede the hiring of females: Supreme Court of the United States: 1991 United States v. Virginia: struck down the long-standing male-only admission policy of the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) Supreme Court of the United States: 1996 Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Dukes: discrimination in promotions, pay, and job assignments
Under Florida law, trans people are sent to prisons based of their assigned gender at birth. In men’s prisons, trans women frequently have their heads forcibly shaved and - due to “anti-woke” restrictions implemented in 2023 - are forcibly taken off hormone therapy, and instead put through psychiatric conversion therapy. [159] [160]
TALLAHASSEE — Senate leaders have been silent about an angry confrontation between Republican Sen. Tom Wright and a female staffer at a Daytona Beach shelter for battered and abused women and ...
The committee's broadly worded mandate from the legislature was to "investigate all organizations whose principles or activities include a course of conduct on the part of any person or group which could constitute violence, or a violation of the laws of the state, or would be inimical to the well being and orderly pursuit of their personal and ...