[ad_1] In what was the most gender-balanced Winter Olympics to date, 45% of athletes competing were women. They received more airtime, too — and not just off the ski jumps — with schedule changes that made it easier to feature their events. On the final Saturday of competition, there will be nine hours of women’s…
[ad_1] Although films in the 1900s and early 2000s mainly depicted disabled characters as vulnerable, powerless, evil, irrational, and even violent (i.e., The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Elephant Man), disabled character portrayals have recently broadened. These more realistic characters have included such progressive roles as heroes, leaders, and even the subjects of love…
[ad_1] “We are all pro-life, only that some of us are in favor of allowing women to live a life in which their dignity is respected, and they can exercise their rights fully.” [ad_2]
[ad_1] As she spoke into the microphone, alternating between tears of sadness and shouts of rage, Araceli Herrera recalled the brutal gang rape she experienced as a teenager in Mexico City. Now in her 70s, it was only the second time she spoke about it publicly, summoning up the courage to use her experience to…
There’s an incident that has already become legend, an older woman in the city of Henichesk, along the Sea of Azov in Ukraine, walked up to a group of Russians soldiers and the following exchange occurred: WOMAN: Who are you? SOLDIER: We have exercises, please go away. WOMAN: What kind of exercises? Are you Russian? SOLDIER:…
[ad_1] A few months ago, journalist Rachel Leventhal had a conversation with three young women about gender equality and the Equal Rights Amendment. It was one of those conversations that yielded more questions than answers, namely: Why don’t women already have constitutional equality, and what would it really mean if we did? In this series, through interviews with…
