women's rights
New Cuban Families Code a chance to advance gender and LGBTQ equality
March 4, 2020The Code will be presented to the National Assembly of People’s Power in March 2021. Following that, there will be public consultations before a final referendum.
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Unions join Supreme Court battle against Louisiana reproductive rights restrictions
March 2, 2020Unions joining the case on the side of the women include the Coalition of Labor Union Women, AFSCME, both big teachers unions, the Asian-Pacific American Labor Alliance, and Service Employees.
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Reproductive rights in the 116th Congress: A clear partisan divide
October 28, 2019Keeping women in submission by disallowing them control over their own bodies and their own families is keeping the whole working class down.
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Second World, Second Sex: How the socialist women of the East shaped feminism
September 5, 2019The world’s workers in general—and women in particular—benefited from the “ideological tension” created by state socialism and its allies in the Third World.
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Pro-choice groups fear for abortion rights
June 21, 2019Millions of low-income women nationwide face a GOP Trump administration gag rule on their abortion rights.
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