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On November 9, 1973, King testified before the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions and spoke about problems in women's sports. King stated that the benefit of sports was denied to women in educational programs, such as budgets for women's sports being less than men's sports. King's testimony brought attention ...
The new education law guaranteed education rights until middle school. Before the 1960s, female enrollment in elementary school was 20%. 20 years after publishing this education law, in the year 1995, this percentage had increased to 98.2%. By 2003, the proportion of female who dropped from middle school decreased to 2.5%. [101]
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 ...
Convicted women are kept in general regime correctional colonies, regardless of the severity of the crime they committed. [43] Rima Torosyan, a legal scholar, argues that the lack of differentiation in the issue of assigning the type of correctional institution for women is a violation of the principles of humanism and justice.
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.. The decision stems from a multiyear legal battle ...
The 2003 Nisha Sharma dowry case was an anti-dowry lawsuit that has been cited as an illustrative example highlighting the potential for misuse of the IPC 498A law in India. In this case, Nisha Sharma accused her prospective groom, Munish Dalal, of dowry demands, raising questions about the dynamics and fairness of such allegations within the ...
Backlash is Susan Faludi's 550 page analysis of social, economic and political inequities and resulting difficulties American women faced in the 1980s. [citation needed] The book was hailed as "the most vehement and unapologetic call to arms to issue from the feminist camp in many years", [3] and "a rich compendium of fascinating information and an indictment of a system losing its grip."
Former President Donald Trump and some other Republicans are twisting minor voting problems in U.S. midterm elections into conspiracy theories and false claims to sow doubt about Democratic ...