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Kamala Harris, in Florida, takes aim at abortion restrictions as attacking ‘the very foundations of freedom’
The vice president, on the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, tied the fight for legal abortion to Americans’ past fights for rights.
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Democrats who flipped statehouses in 2022 are prioritizing abortion access in 2023
Democratic lawmakers who won full control of state government in Michigan and Minnesota have put abortion access at the top of their agendas in 2023 legislative sessions.
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The Supreme Court could consider a charter school's code requiring skirts or dresses for girls
A North Carolina charter school that was found to violate the Constitution by requiring women students to wear skirts or dresses to promote “chivalry” is taking its case to the Supreme Court.
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With Congress divided, Democrat-led states may take the lead in expanding paid family and sick leave
The United States entered 2023 as one of the few wealthy countries without national, guaranteed paid sick or family leave, leaving state lawmakers to fill in the gaps.
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Democratic women who made history in 2018 are stepping into leadership in 2022
A number of women from the class of 2018 are moving into increasingly powerful leadership positions and poised to exert more influence than ever before on the future of their party.
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How federal lawmakers achieved a ‘watershed’ year of progress fighting gender-based violence and sexual harassment
Congress achieved bipartisan progress combating intimate partner violence and workplace harassment. But advocates say the bills passed still don’t go nearly far enough.
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Sen. Kyrsten Sinema leaves Democratic Party, poised to become first independent woman senator
Sinema announced Friday morning that she plans to register as an independent but said her service to Arizona “remains the same.”
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How Instagram and TikTok hashtags highlight gendered hate toward women candidates
A new study shows how users searching for women candidates and politicians on Instagram and TikTok were served with abusive hashtags in the leadup to the 2022 midterms.
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In her first election as a U.S. citizen, this Michigan lawyer got to vote on a measure she co-wrote
Bonsitu Kitaba, deputy legal director for the ACLU of Michigan, co-wrote — and cast her first vote as a United States citizen — for the state’s new reproductive freedom amendment.
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Nancy Pelosi, the first and only woman to serve as House speaker, will step down from leadership
The highly anticipated announcement from Pelosi, an 82-year-old California Democrat, comes after Republicans won back control of the House in the 2022 midterms.