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Measure by Measure In November, voters will have the opportunity to decide several critical issues in their statesfrom banning abortion and birth control to raising the minimum wage to restricting labor rights to granting state constitutional rights for women. Read more...

The 88 Percent More than 88 percent of women ages 15 to 44 who have had sexual intercourse have used a highly effective, reversible method of birth control. Hobby Lobby should be of grave concern to that 88 percent. Read more...

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The Cherokee Word for Water Wilma Mankiller, the first woman chief of the modern Cherokee Nation, died four years ago, but thanks to a determined effort by her family and friends, her legacy lives on in film. The Cherokee Word for Water is a feature-length narrative based on a major project Mankiller took on for the Cherokee Nation. Read more...

"Get Out of My Exam Room" Ohio women and feminists across the nation fight back against outrageous anti-woman state restrictions and send legislators a simple message: "We Won't Go Back." Check out this in-depth update of how pro-choice activists are standing up for their rights and get on-the-ground reports of what you can do to fight back, too. Read more...

Fighting Street Harassment with Street Art Tatyana Fazlalizadeh has peppered walls in her Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood with black-and-white drawings of brazenfaced women accompanied by bold slogans such as, Women are not outside for your entertainment. Fazlalizadeh first thought to express her frustration at street sexism with paintings, but decided it would be more impactful to place the artwork in the where harassment occurs. Read more...

Sustaining a Movement You might not know many of their names (yet), but important feminist philanthropists are definitely out there, and theyre trying to change not just womens lives but the whole notion of womens philanthropy a concept that emerged in the 1980s. Read more...

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