Women's Rights
From the women’s suffrage movement to Roe vs. Wade, our country has made huge steps toward recognizing the rights of women. But even today women aren’t totally free from oppression and the sexism inherent in the systems of our society.
INSTITUTE INDEX: Sequestering our mothers
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May 10, 2013
Rank of low-income mothers, particularly women of color, among those expected to be hit hardest by automatic federal spending cuts known as the sequester that took effect in March...
FROM THE SOUTHERN EXPOSURE ARCHIVES: Women and lynching
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March 8, 2013
By Jacquelyn Hall
A story in a 1977 issue of Southern Exposure magazine reported on how in the midst of the Great Depression Texas suffragist Jessie Daniel Ames organized a mass...
FROM THE SOUTHERN EXPOSURE ARCHIVES: How two Southern women helped legalize abortion in the US
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January 25, 2013
By Priscilla Parish Williams
This week marked the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion. In a special 1977 issue of Southern...
VOICES: Remembering North Carolina's pro-choice past
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January 22, 2013
By Cynthia R. Greenlee-Donnell
It's not often when North Carolinians can claim honors in progressive policymaking. But here's a brief history lesson just in time for the...
INSTITUTE INDEX: The harsh politics of rape pregnancy
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August 23, 2012
Date on which Congressman Todd Akin, an anti-abortion rights Republican who is running for U.S. Senate in Missouri, wrongly claimed that victims of "legitimate rape"...
Chick-fil-A's history of workplace discrimination
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August 2, 2012
In the debate raging over Chick-fil-A's position on gay rights, some defenders of the Georgia-based fast-food chain have claimed that despite Chief Operating Officer Dan Cathy...
New Orleans women's health advocacy organization regroups after arson attack
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June 4, 2012
A New Orleans nonprofit that works to address the HIV/AIDS crisis among women of color is regrouping after its offices were destroyed by arson last month, opening a temporary...
A trend toward anti-immigrant, anti-choice laws
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April 5, 2012
By Elena Shore, New America Media
2011 saw a record number of laws restricting abortion in U.S. states. It also saw a record number of state anti-immigrant laws. Coincidence?...
INSTITUTE INDEX: The war on women's wages
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March 22, 2012
Percent less women earned than men for a week of full-time work in 2011: 17.8
Percentage points that figure declined from 2010: 1
Percentage of that decline due to real wages...
Controversy rages over arrests of Virginia reproductive rights protesters
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March 6, 2012
The ACLU is accusing police of overreacting in their arrests of 31 people at the Virginia Capitol on Saturday during a peaceful protest over passage of a controversial bill...
Miami moms stand up for workers
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May 10, 2006
Facing South reader KD sends this announcement from the Women's Fund of Miami-Dade, about Florida moms standing up for workers on Mother's Day:
On Friday, May 12th at...
Women not well represented in the South
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April 20, 2006
Number of women legislators low in Alabama, Southeast:
...Alabama's percentage of women in the legislature -- 11.4 percent, just above South Carolina's lowest-in-the-...
The Alito effect
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January 31, 2006
Didn't take them long, did it? According to Stateline.org:
With the Bush administration's reshaping of the U.S. Supreme Court, legislators in at least five states are...
Alito, abortion and the South
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November 2, 2005
If news coverage is any indication, it seems abortion is shaping up to be a key focal point -- and maybe the focal point -- of the Supreme Court confirm I'm hearing from...
