Young married Catholic couples in the 1960s were subject to strict religious teachings that decreed artificial contraception unacceptable.
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The ban on the pill led to much sorrow and frustration, but determined couples found imaginative ways to cope and work around it.
Amy McGrath speaks to supporters in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Voters tend to view female candidates as strong on issues like education and health care, but weak on national security. Female veterans might be able to overcome the stereotype.
Products like backpacks, beer and Q-tips are marketed in a gender-specific way.
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The sale of women’s backpacks is up by more than 20 per cent in the past year: but why can’t we just call it a backpack? Why does it have to be a ‘lady backpack?’
Women have to push through barriers to access higher education.
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Women face a number of socio-economic challenges that make it harder for them to access higher education.
Capital, family roles and stereotypes hinder women in business.
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The governments of the two West African countries could do more to enhance women’s participation in tourism.
Food didn’t become gendered until the late 19th century.
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In the early 20th century, women’s food started being described as ‘dainty,’ meaning fanciful but not filling.
Seventy-eight percent of the people executed for witchcraft in New England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries were women.
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Powerful men often proclaim baseless accusations to be a ‘witch hunt.’ But American witch trials have always targeted a persecuted minority: women.
Our systematic review found that sexual minority women experience worse treatment in the healthcare system.
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Health services are routinely falling short when it comes to providing care to lesbian, bisexual, trans and other sexual minority women.
Refugees awaiting municipal bread distribution in Akcakale, Turkey, Oct. 20, 2019. Three-quarters of the Syrian refugees in Turkey are women and children.
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Turkey is threatening to send 3.6 million refugees back to the Syrian territory it just invaded. Deporting these vulnerable people would make them the collateral damage of a chaotic, many-sided war.
From city to country girl, but will she stay?
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Life in the country isn’t all it’s made out to be in popular media. That’s what one group of women found who made the move from city life.
Women in upper management are discriminated against by all employees, not just men.
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Women in the workplace face discrimination at every level, including in upper management.
Women’s perceptions of ‘gender linked fate’ were contingent on two dimensions: their race and their marital status.
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Women are swinging elections in the US and Australia in ways analysts have struggled to predict. Two recent studies can help explain.
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Research offers an insight into the experiences of pregnant women left to give birth in their cells without midwives
Syringe and cooked heroin.
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Most Kenyan women were introduced into drug use by male sexual partners in their teenage years.
Women will keep fighting for true pensions equality.
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The ruling suggests there is an enduring disregard for one of the most vulnerable groups in today’s society: older women.
Not all instances of sexism are tangible or easy to explain, but they can have similar impacts on women’s mental health as overt sexism.
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It can happen at work, on the street or at home – even by the people who love us. Everyday sexism might be hard to pin down, but it’s pervasive and creates an additional layer of stress for women.
Female sex offenders may not receive as much public attention or scorn as male sex offenders.
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Between 1% and 9% of sex offenders are female. Many are ‘co-offenders,’ recruiting and manipulating victims for others.
Men have nipples because of a quirk in how embryos develop. But that’s only part of the story of this seemingly redundant body part.
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How embryos develop, evolution and sexual pleasure all help explain why men have nipples. But ‘man boobs’ are a different story.
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The sequel to Margaret Atwood’s dystopian classic provides an apt moment to consider attacks on women’s rights across the world.
Victorian MP Fiona Patten has introduced a new anti-vilification bill to parliament that would extend protections to women, the disabled and the LGBT community.
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The proposed amendments would provide much-needed updates to Victoria’s vilification laws and bring the state in line with NSW, Queensland, Tasmania and the ACT.