Women Seek $66 Million From US Soccer
Players on the U.S. women’s national team are seeking more than $66 million in damages in their gender discrimination lawsuit against the U.S. Soccer Federation.
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Title IX
Five Jane Does sued Carroll College in federal court, claiming it discriminates against female athletes in funding and scholarships and, among other things, making them do the maintenance on their playing fields and borrow the equipment to do it, in Helena, Mont. Federal Court.
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House Removes Roadblock to Ratifying Equal Rights Amendment
The Equal Rights Amendment inched one step closer to becoming the 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as the House voted 232-183 Thursday to remove a deadline standing in the way of ratification.
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Nearly Century-Old Fight on Equal Rights Amendment Faces House Vote
Aiming to include an explicit bar against sex discrimination in the U.S. Constitution, the House will vote Thursday on whether to nix the deadline for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.
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Six women sued Walmart in separate complaints in Dayton, Ohio Federal Court, claiming it paid them less than similarly situated men and denied them promotions and training to prevent the advancement of their careers.
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Blue States Sue to Force Adoption of Equal Rights Amendment
Attorneys general from three Democrat-led states filed a federal lawsuit Thursday seeking to force the U.S. archivist to add the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution after Virginia became the 38th state to ratify it this week.
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Andrew Yang’s Wife Says Doctor Sexually Assaulted Her
The wife of Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang says she was sexually assaulted by an obstetrician while she was pregnant with the couple’s first child.
Read moreHong Kong Airline Made Passenger Take Pregnancy Test
A Hong Kong airline forced a Japanese woman to take a pregnancy test before allowing her on a flight to a Pacific island popular with mothers seeking U.S. citizenship for their babies.
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Virginia Lawmakers Move to Ratify Equal Rights Amendment
Virginia became the 38th state Wednesday to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, a constitutional change nearly a century in the making that would make it illegal to deny equal rights based on sex.
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Advocates of Equal Rights Amendment Take Late-Ratification Bid to Court
With Virginia expected to further a constitutional change nearly a century in the making, three proponents of the Equal Rights Amendment brought a federal complaint to ensure that the nation’s archivist properly records the event.
Read moreTopless Selfie
A former teacher claims in federal court that the South Country Central School District in New York fired her illegally for sending a topless selfie photo to a male teacher with whom she was in a relationship, but did not discipline him.
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Lawmakers Pledge ERA Will Pass in Virginia. Then What?
Supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment are so confident Virginia is on the verge of becoming the critical 38th state to ratify the gender equality measure they are already making plans for how they will celebrate.
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Sexist Slurs Mar Taiwan Presidential Elections
Taiwan has forged a reputation as Asia’s most progressive democracy and it boasts a higher proportion of women in parliament than anywhere else in the region — yet misogynistic insults have littered its presidential race.
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Alaskan Review of Rape Cold Cases Hits a Stone Wall
The two cops — the cold case detective from Virginia and the evidence technician from Alaska — had a mission. Sift through more than a decade of grim stories from this small city set between the Bering Strait and Alaska’s western tundra.
Read moreEqual Rights Amendment
Alabama, Louisiana and South Dakota sued the United States in federal court to prevent ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, claiming the deadline for ratification has expired.
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Investigators Observe Ill Fates for Foreign Brides Trafficked to China
Sold by her family as a bride to a Chinese man, Samiya David spent only two months in China. When she returned to Pakistan, the once robust woman was nearly unrecognizable: malnourished, too weak to walk, her speech confused and disjointed.
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Warren Says Voters Are Ready for a Female Ticket
Elizabeth Warren said Sunday she believes Americans are ready for a presidential ticket with two women at the top, rejecting concerns from some Democrats that a woman can’t beat President Trump.
Read moreFed Up, South Korean Women Swear Off Men
A growing number of South Korean women are banding together to reject rigid patriarchal norms and vowing never to wed, have children or even date and have sex.
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Virginia Democrats Set Sights on Equal Rights Amendment
Flanked by members of the newly Democratic-controlled Virginia House of Delegates, the chamber’s incoming majority leader said ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is a top goal of the 2020 legislative session.
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France Grapples With Widespread Domestic Violence
Sylvia. Dalila. Aminata. Céline. Julie. Their names are plastered on buildings and headlines across France, calling attention to their shared fate: Each was killed this year, allegedly by a current or former partner.
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