women's equality

Beyond Suffrage: How Far Have Women Come Since?

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by Eve Weinbaum

and Rachel Roth, RH Reality Check

August 26, 2011 - 9:52am (Print)

American women won the right to vote in 1920. But how far have we come since on other issues important to women?

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Michelle Obama and Betty Ford: How One Used Her Power and the Other Still Could

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by Rebecca Sive, The Sive Group, Inc./www.rebeccasive.com

July 12, 2011 - 11:48am (Print)

I am very grateful for Michelle Obama and Betty Ford, two American girls whose heartland families instilled such high ambitions in their daughters. But it sure would be wonderful if Michelle Obama, First Lady, were able to be like Betty Ford, First Lady, in leading courageously on women's rights.

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I Spy With My Little "i"... The Not-So-Subtle Misogyny of THE FAMiLY LEADER's Marriage Vow

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by Vyckie Garrison, No Longer Qivering

July 10, 2011 - 7:01am (Print)

There's one "little" detail in THE FAMiLY LEADER's "Marriage Vow" that critics have overlooked - small, subtle, and yet glaringly obvious once you see it: Simply stated, women who are unwilling to subordinate and sacrifice themselves to populate America’s economic and political war machine are selfish with a capital “I” - s.e.l.f.I.s.h.

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Morning Roundup: Planned Parenthood's Truth Tour Underway

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by Beth Saunders, RH Reality Check

March 9, 2011 - 11:05am (Print)

Planned Parenthood is touring the country in a hot pink bus to rally support, a march for women's equality in Egypt turns sexually violent, and men in Texas don't want to play politics with forcing ultrasounds. Except that is exactly what they are doing.

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Lily Ledbetter Keeps Her Eye on the Prize: Supreme Court

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by Emily Douglas

August 26, 2008 - 9:17pm (Print)

Lily Ledbetter addresses the Democratic National Convention to support Obama's pledge to "appoint justices who enforce laws that protect everyday people."
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