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Today in women’s history: International Women’s Day
March 8, 2013March 8, International Women's Day, grew from two sources -- the struggle of working women to form trade unions and the fight for women's right to vote.
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Today in women’s history: Trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins
March 6, 2013The frame up of the Rosenbergs, fueled by Cold War, anti-communism and anti-Semitism, remains a terrible blot on our nation's history - a gross miscarriage of justice.
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Today in women’s history: Mary McLeod Bethune honored
March 5, 2013On March 5, in 1985 the U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative honoring Mary McLeod Bethune.
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Pistorius offers another example of violence against women
February 19, 2013On Feb. 14, an annual event highlighted the fact that one out of three women will be beaten or raped in her lifetime. The same day Reeva Steenkamp was killed, allegedly by Olympic track star Oscar...
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One Billion Rising fights domestic violence, rape culture
February 14, 2013One in three women worldwide will be raped or beaten in her lifetime. Since there are three billion women on the planet, one billion women will experience such outrages.
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