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Pakistan’s transgender candidates

For the first time in Pakistan’s history, transgender individuals are running as election…

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Newly-minted attorney Sandra Fluke became an icon for women’s rights last year amid the national debate over religious freedom and affordable access to contraception. Read more.

“They still haven’t named a woman to the Standing Committee,” she said. “There has not been any concrete achievement at all for women in the last couple of decades and there is evidence that the status of women is actually decreasing.”

Politicians want the married-mom vote. But so far they’re offering us very little in the way of a detailed agenda.

Rick Perry is risking women’s health by shunning medicare. 

Black women have had to maneuver between both their racial and gender identities for centuries within the legal and political landscape. And today African American women have become an increasingly important voting block.

The MA senatorial candidate joined the chorus of politicians denouncing Akin’s rape comments. To get out in front on this issue, Elizabeth Warren should talk about defective rape laws across the U.S. and problems at Harvard.

What does ‘Pro-Life’ mean in Politics and Polls? http://womensenews.org/story/abortion/120815/abortion-poll-data-jolted-hot-button-lingo