• Intimate partner violence, female genital mutilation, early and forced marriage and violence as a weapon of war, sexual and gender-based violence, are a major public health concern across the world, a barrier to women's empowerment and gender equality, and a constraint on individual and societal development, with high economic costs. (insightsonindia.com)
  • The vagina in question, made of wood, can be separated into its component parts, and Pareyio uses it to demonstrate the effects of female genital mutilation, commonly known as "female circumcision. (womensenews.org)
  • The overwhelming majority of victims are women, who also suffer female genital mutilation and forced abortion. (imaduddineducare.com)
  • Feminist literature complains not that violent husbands are avoiding conviction, but that accused fathers sometimes retain access to their children. (theoccidentalobserver.net)
  • A number of women attending the seminars smugly-indeed boastfully-announced that they had already sworn out false or grossly exaggerated domestic violence complaints against their hapless husbands, and that the device worked! (theoccidentalobserver.net)
  • Married women are more likely to experience physical or sexual violence by husbands. (imaduddineducare.com)
  • Discourses gradually rejected the violent man associated with the working classes, alcoholism, and marginality, as well as husbands unable to fulfill their role as head of the family in a gentlemanly manner. (ehne.fr)
  • One of the earliest studies reported the on the available literature on domestic violence within prevalence of overall domestic violence by husbands in 34.0-54.8% of married women ( 3 ). (who.int)
  • Normally, we think of abusive relationships as applying to individuals - typically children abused by their parents or wives battered by their violent husbands - but other authors, including Levine, recognize that the abuse syndrome can also apply to groups or to entire societies. (911blogger.com)
  • Women are not battering their husbands in epidemic proportions. (thelizlibrary.org)
  • Abducted women and girls were often obliged to become the sex slaves of their captors ("husbands"), and were sexually abused over extended periods of time. (hrw.org)
  • Unemployed women who speak little French are less likely to leave abusive husbands, because their conditions render independence difficult. (sosfemmes.com)
  • Melissa had two husbands-one legal, the other not, both of whom were violent towards her. (4w.pub)
  • In October, 2000, Lori Mihalich , a student at Princeton University, New Jersey (now a lawyer practicing in Washington, DC), visited SOS Femmes Accueil and met the team when doing research on the situation of Maghrebi immigrant women facing domestic violence in France. (sosfemmes.com)
  • This thesis examines the social, economic, and above all, legal difficulties faced by battered immigrant women, as well as the intersection of French immigration and domestic violence policies. (sosfemmes.com)
  • Certain socioeconomic conditions render immigrant women particularly vulnerable to domestic violence . (sosfemmes.com)
  • Additionally, immigrant women in France are often extremely isolated . (sosfemmes.com)
  • Immigrant women also suffer disproportionately high rates of unemployment: 42.1 percent of Maghrebi women are unemployed (in contrast to only 21.9 percent of Maghrebi men). (sosfemmes.com)
  • Unfortunately, even if immigrant women from the Maghreb overcome cultural barriers and decide to leave abusive spouses, they may not legally be able to do so without being evicted from France. (sosfemmes.com)
  • Yet, there is no legal provision in the new code that would resolve the unique problems that battered immigrant women face. (sosfemmes.com)
  • In reality, however, language barriers , isolation , cultural traditions , and immigration laws discourage immigrant women from reporting violence to authorities or bringing charges against their abusers . (sosfemmes.com)
  • Often, immigrant women are not able to self-petition for legal residency in France. (sosfemmes.com)
  • The four subtitles within the Act-the Safe Streets Act, Safe Homes for Women, Civil Rights for Women and Equal Justice for Women in the Courts, and Protections for Battered Immigrant Women and Children-target domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and protection against gender-motivated violence. (bridgeproject.com)
  • The radical feminist armada forcibly stole a graphic anti-abortion sign from the two protesters. (dailycaller.com)
  • Instead, she said felt "triggered in a negative way" by graphic images on the anti-abortion poster and on corresponding anti-abortion literature. (dailycaller.com)
  • Another professor, Eileen Boris of UCSB's feminist studies department , urged the judge in the case to be lenient because Miller-Young was three months pregnant when she stole the anti-abortion sign, destroyed it and battered a 16-year-old girl. (dailycaller.com)
  • Joan Short, the older sister, said she believes Miller-Young must apologize for stealing the anti-abortion sign and for the violent bullying actions she took during the confrontation. (dailycaller.com)
  • For example, new anti-abortion measures have been introduced, that include a seven-day waiting period after consulting a clinic about an abortion, sometimes involving psychologists who make the experience more traumatic by telling women that the abortion is morally wrong. (giswatch.org)
  • The continuing crime and problem of the physical beating of a wife, girlfriend or children, usually by the woman's male partner (although it can also be female violence against a male). (criminal-lawyer-colorado.com)
  • 2 So basically a woman's inability or lack of desire to have a child does not matter: a woman is first and foremost a mother. (giswatch.org)
  • They start with the practice of sex-selective abortion and infanticide, and continue through adolescent and adult life with high levels of female infant mortality, child marriage, teenage pregnancy, lesser wages for women, unsafe workplaces, domestic violence, maternal mortality, sexual assault and neglect of elderly women. (insightsonindia.com)
  • Even if it were the case that criminalizing abortion resulted in a large increase in unsafe, illegal abortions (a dubious claim), how exactly would that be our fault? (jillstanek.com)
  • A wire hanger is not sacred, and I am not remotely concerned about the pearl-clutching of people who don't care about the unborn they kill on purpose or the women who die in unsafe abortions-the regulation of which the pro-aborts oppose -now. (jillstanek.com)
  • With child abuse and spouse abuse you don't have to prove anything," the leader of one seminar quoted in the Chicago Tribune tells divorcing women. (theoccidentalobserver.net)
  • A battered spouse is one who may be controlled and terrorized by a combination of abusive tactics, both directly physical and not. (thelizlibrary.org)
  • It is also categorised as domestic abuse, spousal abuse, battering, family violence, dating abuse and intimate partner violence (IPV). (insightsonindia.com)
  • Harriet Harman, deputy leader of the British Labour Party, has proposed allowing women to kill their "intimate partners" with impunity as long as they "claim past, or fear of future, abuse. (theoccidentalobserver.net)
  • In the pre-pill early 1960s, when unwanted pregnancy was a constant chilling specter for my pre-Boomer "silent" generation, men usually talked about abortion only if their girlfriends had missed a period - when they were trying to track down that coal-country Pennsylvania doctor who performed illegal abortions with relative impunity. (tomdispatch.com)
  • These women are either forced into prostitution, domestic work, or child labour. (imaduddineducare.com)
  • In the labor movement there were many writings denouncing marriage as a form of slavery imposed on women, and even a kind of prostitution (Clara Zetkin, August Bebel, Alexandra Kollontai). (ehne.fr)
  • Long ago, when I first researched mothers in jail, and women who kill , I learned that female inmates, who were generally imprisoned for petty economic crimes, prostitution, or drug-related offenses, were, rather unbelievably, perceived as more violent than their more numerous and dangerously violent male counterparts. (4w.pub)
  • Women were often punished more severely for "female" crimes, such as prostitution than men were for more violent "male" crimes such as homicide. (4w.pub)
  • Saying everyone should have control of their own body, some would legalize prostitution, all abortion, all drugs, all porn, all consensual sexual activity. (blogspot.com)
  • On that last day, International Women's Day, "Monologues" playwright Ensler will arrive in Kabul, Afghanistan-not undercover as she did in 1999, when she was researching the plight of Afghan women but as a public figure presenting a satellite-phone system to the new Afghan Ministry for Women's Affairs. (womensenews.org)
  • Rada Boric, director of the Center for Women War Victims in Zagreb, Croatia, and now "almost a sister" to Ensler, remembers that the playwright, on assignment in a refugee camp for The New York Times, ended up staying for weeks, "making coffee and crying. (womensenews.org)
  • For example, James F. Tracy, associate professor of media studies at Florida Atlantic University, has applied the four stages that domestic abuse victims traverse to collective abuse, and he has coined the phrase "battered citizen syndrome" to define this new, broader category. (911blogger.com)
  • Since an armed conflict erupted in 2002 between the Ivorian government and northern-based rebel groups, girls and women in Cote d'Ivoire have been victims of brutal forms of sexual violence by armed men on both sides of the military and political divide. (hrw.org)
  • Research indicates that at least 7 percent of the 30.1 million women living in France are victims of domestic violence each year. (sosfemmes.com)
  • Theoretically, immigrant victims have the same rights and access to justice as do native French women. (sosfemmes.com)
  • In the United States, most female homicide victims are killed by their current or former partner and one in 4 women experience domestic violence or abuse. (wmm.com)
  • In search of an answer, she hears heartfelt testimonies from survivors and victims' families, and gets vital insights from social workers and psychologists who work with violent men. (wmm.com)
  • The resulting Violence Against Women Act for the first time recognizes the common barriers to legal protection faced by women victims of violent crimes. (bridgeproject.com)
  • Healthcare law articulates violence against women as an ordinary healthcare issue and the problem as shortcomings to provide good healthcare for victims, but without specifying what the problem or the legal obligation for the sector is. (bvsalud.org)
  • As per World Health Organization (WHO) findings about 1 in 3 (35%) women worldwide have experienced either physical or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime. (insightsonindia.com)
  • Violence against women - particularly intimate partner violence and sexual violence - is a major public health problem and a violation of women's human rights. (insightsonindia.com)
  • Globally, 38% of murders of women are committed by a male intimate partner . (insightsonindia.com)
  • Intimate partner violence against women is a significant problem in Pakistan associated with an alarming set of mental health issues. (who.int)
  • To identify the prevalence of intimate partner violence in Pakistan and the causes, health effects and coping strat- egies used by women. (who.int)
  • INTRODUCTION: Intimate partner violence (IPV) impacts approximately one quarter of Canadian women, and services provided to support women are heavily influenced by policy. (bvsalud.org)
  • This article investigates the association between intimate partner violence (IPV) during a current pregnancy and severe maternal morbidity severe maternal morbidity among pregnant and postpartum women cared for in public maternity centers located in São Paulo, Brazil. (bvsalud.org)
  • At the end of World War II-and even as recently as 1970, as detailed by Gene Boyer in her essay, excerpted in this volume, "Are Woman Equal Under the Law? (lithub.com)
  • All hurricanes bore female names, women being considered the creators of chaos, and in 1970 a prominent physician famously declared on TV that women were unfit for high office due to "raging hormonal imbalances of the lunar cycle. (lithub.com)
  • In 1970 they published a stapled newsprint booklet entitled Women and Their Bodies. (now.org)
  • The National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) suggests that 30 percent women in India in the age group of 15-49 have experienced physical violence since the age of 15. (insightsonindia.com)
  • The methods of sex determination and female foeticide are adopted which is the main reason for the declining number of females, especially in North India. (imaduddineducare.com)
  • In most parts of India, women are merely considered as an object. (imaduddineducare.com)
  • India has a highly masculine sex ratio, the chief reason being that many women die before reaching adulthood. (imaduddineducare.com)
  • It is therefore suggested by many experts, that the highly masculine sex ratio in India can be attributed to female infanticides and sex-selective abortions. (imaduddineducare.com)
  • The abuse of the dowry tradition has been one of the main reasons for sex-selective abortions and female infanticides in India. (imaduddineducare.com)
  • Violence against women is a serious problem in India. (imaduddineducare.com)
  • This Shlok forms the basis of women being called 'Ghar ki Laxmi' or 'Goddess of Fortune in Home' in India even in the present day society. (thelawbrigade.com)
  • A dowry death is the murder or suicide of a married woman caused by a dispute over her dowry. (insightsonindia.com)
  • At times, acids such as sulfuric acid have been used to disfigure or kill women and girls for reasons such as family feuds, inability to meet dowry demands, and for rejection of marriage proposals. (imaduddineducare.com)
  • A history of multiple prior visits to the ED (traumatic and nontraumatic) suggests battering. (medscape.com)
  • This study also suggests everybody must respect the right of women to equal opportunities and a dignified life. (thelawbrigade.com)
  • Female infanticide is the elected killing of a newborn female child or the termination of a female fetus through sex-selective abortion. (insightsonindia.com)
  • Men who batter almost routinely accuse their partners of having other sexual relationships. (neelscorner.com)
  • The inauguration will unfold at a U.S. Capitol battered by an insurrectionist siege exactly two weeks ago, encircled by security forces evocative of those in a war zone and devoid of crowds because of the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. (latimes.com)
  • Leslie tells The World Today that while she doesn't believe women who have abortions require forgiveness as they haven't done anything wrong, the Pope's decision to allow Priests to forgive Catholic women who have abortions in the Jubilees year, could be meaningful to some Catholic women. (cannold.com)
  • Growing numbers of Americans are shocked to learn that the methods of abortion include dismemberment of a child's fragile body including decapitation and that drugs like RU 486 starve the baby to death before he or she is forcibly expelled from the womb. (cc.org)
  • I firmly believe that the respect that its women enjoy tells us how developed a country is. (thelawbrigade.com)
  • Leslie invited to deliver a Ted-type talk on abortion stigma to the largest gathering on girls' and women's health, rights and wellbeing in the last decade. (cannold.com)
  • The NOW Foundation is proud to honor the founding women of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective for their feminist contributions to the field of women's and girls' health. (now.org)
  • The participants were submitted to a retrospective investigation of IPV using an instrument adapted from the WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women, applied between November 2010 and June 2011. (bvsalud.org)
  • As participantes foram submetidas à investigação retrospectiva de IPV utilizando-se um instrumento adaptado do WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence against Women, aplicado entre Novembro 2010 e Junho 2011. (bvsalud.org)
  • It took until the 1970s and the struggle of the feminist movement for European states and the European Union to address the problem by passing legislation to eradicate violence against women, albeit not without resistance. (ehne.fr)
  • One of the first films ever made about the struggle for abortion rights, this powerful archival piece documents women's voices from a pre-Roe v. Wade era. (wmm.com)
  • Women who experience violence from their partners are less likely to earn a living and are less able to care for their children or participate meaningfully in community activities or social interaction that might help end the abuse. (insightsonindia.com)
  • Women in formal wage work who are exposed to severe partner abuse (both lifetime and current) have 60 per-cent lower earnings. (insightsonindia.com)
  • If approved, the Beijing performance would benefit the country's Domestic Violence Network and Red Maple Counseling Center, both new organizations in a country where abuse of women is rarely confronted or discussed. (womensenews.org)
  • Everywhere Ensler performed "Monologues," women approached her with their own stories of abuse. (womensenews.org)
  • Extended investigations [of shelters] by Canada's National Post and others revealed a violently anti-male agenda, corruption, drug and alcohol use, child abuse, and even, ironically, violence against women. (theoccidentalobserver.net)
  • At the beginning of July 2016 a Ukrainian journalist, Anastasiya Melnychenko, started a flashmob on Facebook: under the hashtag #янебоюсьсказати (#iamnotafraidtosay) thousands of women (mostly from the former Soviet Union) started sharing their experiences online about abuse, harassment and violence. (giswatch.org)
  • When she thinks her two children do not need her any longer, Lila Schwartz, a sexually active woman, leaves behind her family, calls herself Lila Munroe and moves to California, where she trains, and later works, as a lawyer. (wikipedia.org)
  • While the male who batters tends to be a loner, he enjoys the company of his own family and friends. (neelscorner.com)
  • It is well established that men and women commit violent acts in the home in roughly equal numbers, and that an intact family is the safest environment for both women and children. (theoccidentalobserver.net)
  • On the other hand, the risk of criminal conviction, social shame, and concerns over exposing the family space to public authorities gradually kept women in silence. (ehne.fr)
  • In the aftermath of the First World War, doctors and moralists became worried about a family weakened by men who were shaken by war, and jealous of increasingly independent women. (ehne.fr)
  • Adherents to CEDAW note the great contribution of women to the welfare of the family and to the development of society, which so far is not fully recognized. (thelawbrigade.com)
  • The whole case is further proof - as if we needed it - that nobody lies like the pro-homosexual, pro-abortion Left , whose members are so consumed with hatred for those defending life and the natural family that they will stoop to evil tactics like this in their ends-justify-the-means crusade to destroy them. (americansfortruth.com)
  • Does this newfangled right extend to Loy and friends lying about Cirignano, implying that this peaceful family man is violent, and forcing him into court to clear his name - all with the cooperation of local prosecutors? (americansfortruth.com)
  • The case was filed by the family of Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old American woman who was studying in Paris when she was killed in an ISIS attack there in 2015. (mahablog.com)
  • Released in 2012 Banaz: A Love Story, her first multi-award-winning documentary, chronicled the life and death of Banaz Mahmod, a young British Kurdish woman murdered by her family in a so-called honor killing. (wmm.com)
  • For instance, neoliberal economic policies of austerity and privatization disproportionately hurt women and LGBT individuals, who are often the lowest paid and the first workers to be fired, the most likely to bear the burdens of family maintenance, and the most affected by the involuntary migration, domestic violence, homelessness, and mental illness that are intensified by poverty. (againstthecurrent.org)
  • The term patriarchy is used in this study when referring to a culture in which men traditionally hold a position of more authority than women within the family and in society at large. (lu.se)
  • For 50 years now, people have told desperate, heart-breaking stories about what it was like to search for an abortion in the days before Roe v. Wade . (tomdispatch.com)
  • The US Supreme Courts decision overturning Roe v Wade has put New Zealand politicians own stances on abortion in the spotlight. (stradanove.net)
  • I am old enough to remember what it was like before" Roe v. Wade , she said, recalling how, as a member of the California Women's Parole Board in the 1960s, she had sent women to prison for 10-year sentences for terminating pregnancies. (motherjones.com)
  • Over 2.4 million people who would have been aborted instead survived because public funds were unavailable to effectuate their violent demise and their mothers instead benefitted from prenatal healthcare and support. (cc.org)
  • This state of affairs is not seen as discriminatory, because on a social level in Russia women are considered primarily mothers and caregivers. (giswatch.org)
  • From the Urban Institute: "In 1994, Congress passed the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) as Title IV of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act (P.L. 103-322). (bridgeproject.com)
  • Recognizing that attitudinal change and knowledge are essential to practical implementation of legal reforms, VAWA authorizes support for prevention, education, and training and the development of systems for maintaining records on violent incidents and perpetrators and improving communication within the justice system. (bridgeproject.com)
  • But then she laid out a formidable case against the Alabama senator and his history of abetting racism, approving torture, and battling abortion rights. (motherjones.com)
  • A total of 109 women who developed Severe maternal morbidity were selected according to criteria adopted by the World Health Organization (WHO). (bvsalud.org)
  • 0.264), we identified factors associated with unfavorable socio-demographic and reproductive conditions in both the women exposed to IPV and those who developed Severe maternal morbidity. (bvsalud.org)
  • In many societies, women who are raped or sexually abused are stigmatised and isolated, which impacts not only their well-being, but also their social participation, opportunities and quality of life. (insightsonindia.com)
  • At first the young lovers are unsure whether Cathy should have an abortion or not, but Cathy soon makes up her mind to keep the baby. (wikipedia.org)
  • SO tired of these abortion lovers defending their sacred cow by trying to make pro-lifers look bad. (jillstanek.com)
  • Domestic violence may be a factor in up to 25% of suicide attempts in women. (medscape.com)
  • There have also been cases when Orthodox priests in small towns and villages lecture women on their depravity and immorality. (giswatch.org)
  • I wish you'd had an abortion and then we'd never have to fight about circumcision. (ecochildsplay.com)
  • For the first time since its initial 1994 passage, the GOP has put up a fight against reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act. (bridgeproject.com)
  • The Violence Against Women Act, First Passed In 1994, Is A Multifaceted Effort To Address Violence Against Women. (bridgeproject.com)
  • There is a lack of empowerment of women especially in rural areas. (imaduddineducare.com)
  • During her 2008 candidacy, the National Organization of Women (NOW) endorsed Clinton based on her "long history of support for women's empowerment. (againstthecurrent.org)
  • The aim was to describe and discuss the main content and characteristics of Swedish healthcare law, and national public health and gender-equality policies representing the public health turn on violence against women. (bvsalud.org)
  • V-Day grew out of Ensler's passionate response to the revelations about Bosnian "rape camps," in which women were held and systematically raped by Serbian soldiers in the early 1990s. (womensenews.org)
  • Sexual harassment, a redefined rape, and domestic violence that need not be violent are the principal ideological weapons in the feminist arsenal, but there are several others as well. (theoccidentalobserver.net)
  • Close to 3.78 lakh cases of crimes against women were recorded in 2018 , the highest since gender-wise classifications were initiated in 1992 by the NCRB. (insightsonindia.com)
  • Half of the total number of crimes against women reported in 1990 related to molestation and harassment at the workplace. (imaduddineducare.com)
  • Maternal mortality also contributes to the declining sex ratio as most of the women die during childbirth due to improper care and fewer facilities. (imaduddineducare.com)
  • The plan provides a planning framework for the sector to address risk and vulnerability among the poor, marginalized and socially excluded groups such as older persons, PWDs, Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children (OVC), women, non-literate adults and ethnic minorities for the next five years (2011/2012 to 2015/2016). (who.int)
  • But after 2 years, mercy, they looked up, and we'd named more judges in that time period than previous administrations and more women and minorities than the three previous Presidents, Democratic and Republican, combined. (ucsb.edu)
  • At Yale, in addition to being responsible for a wide array of academic, administrative and budgetary activities, Bottomly initiated successful new programs to enhance faculty career development and was instrumental in Yale's efforts to recruit and retain women in the sciences and underrepresented minorities in all fields. (now.org)
  • From 1992 to 1998 she pioneered membership in the U.S. Senate for women and minorities, becoming the only woman from Illinois and one of two African Americans elected to the Senate in the 20th century. (now.org)
  • Women who experience violence are more at risk of unwanted pregnancies, maternal and infant mortality, and sexually transmitted infections, including HIV. (insightsonindia.com)
  • We know that by at least twenty weeks unborn babies killed by abortion experience excruciating suffering and physical pain. (cc.org)
  • This is likely a conservative estimate, however, as many women feel they cannot come forward and thus do not report the violence they experience. (sosfemmes.com)
  • Another 337 women who did not experience any clinical, laboratory or management intercurrences during a current pregnancy and postpartum were selected for the control group. (bvsalud.org)
  • Violence against women is usually labelled "violence within close relationships" in the policies, and it is not necessarily described as a gender equality problem. (bvsalud.org)
  • In fact, any job that required authority was in practice off limits to women: most law and medical schools had female quotas, and women were excluded from the clergy of most religions. (lithub.com)
  • The report further reveals that 6 percent women in the same age group have experienced sexual violence at least once in their lifetime. (insightsonindia.com)
  • About 31 percent of married women have experienced physical, sexual or emotional violence by their spouses. (insightsonindia.com)
  • Its patriarchal and conservative character also distanced it from the women's movement, which criticized its actions and policies to the detriment of this sector, such as the veto of the proposal to decriminalize abortion, the imposition of pro-life representatives in programmes of sexual education, etc. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • Overall, one-third of women age 15-49 have experienced physical violence and about 1 in 10 have experienced sexual violence. (imaduddineducare.com)
  • It is the sexual harassment or molestation of women by men. (imaduddineducare.com)
  • Women who are battered are more likely to present with vague medical complaints (12% vs 3%), sexual problems (19% vs 3%), depression, or anxiety than are women who are not battered. (medscape.com)
  • Recently, data on violence against women has ical and/or sexual violence of up to 71% ( 1 ). (who.int)
  • Sexual victimization of girls and women was often accompanied by other gross human rights violations against them, their families and their communities, as armed men on both sides of the political divide massacred, killed, tortured, assaulted, and kidnapped innocent civilians. (hrw.org)
  • While she has indeed spoken about gender and sexual rights with considerable frequency, and while she may not share the overtly misogynistic and anti-LGBT views of most Republican politicians, as a policymaker she has consistently favored policies devastating to women and LGBT persons. (againstthecurrent.org)
  • Prosecutors and police often face the problem that a battered woman will not press charges or testify due to fear, intimidation and misplaced "love. (criminal-lawyer-colorado.com)
  • Action on such a scale devoted to the problem of violence against women has never happened in the post-Soviet space before. (giswatch.org)
  • This event marked a turning point in federal recognition of the extent and seriousness of violence against women, and a commitment to address the problem from the federal vantage point. (bridgeproject.com)
  • While violence against women in some policy documents is clearly framed as a public health problem, such a framing is absent in others, or is transformed into a gender-neutral problem of violence within close relationships. (bvsalud.org)
  • Many women have been pulled from bed while sleeping soundly and beaten. (neelscorner.com)
  • Women exposed to partner violence have higher work absenteeism, lower productivity, and lower earnings than working women who are not beaten. (insightsonindia.com)
  • The belief that women provoke violence and deserve to be beaten is transmitted across generations, as women themselves come to believe they are at fault. (sosfemmes.com)
  • In Africa, it is customarily acceptable for a woman to be beaten by her husband as a form of discipline, and Nigeria is not an exception. (bvsalud.org)
  • It can be so subtle that the woman is unable to identify the intent of the words. (neelscorner.com)
  • During the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, feminist activism-richly diverse both in the women involved and in its aims, tone, and strategies-exploded in the United States and around the world, forever changing society by expanding the rights, opportunities, and identities available to women. (lithub.com)
  • A group of 250 academics and activists calling themselves "Feminists for Clinton" praised her "powerful, inspiring advocacy of the human rights of women" and her "enormous contributions" as a policymaker. (againstthecurrent.org)
  • Part of the answer surely lies in the barrage of sexist attacks that have targeted her and the understandable desire of many feminists to see a woman president. (againstthecurrent.org)
  • It is a shame that in many places the women and girls are sexually harassed, socially abused and sometimes their dignity, choices and freedom are brutally attacked. (thelawbrigade.com)
  • Make Abortion Illegal! (jillstanek.com)
  • Coat hangers are a symbol of nothing but an organized closet, and I'm tired of abortion apologists trying to make out like they're this magical emblem of abortions for everybody. (jillstanek.com)
  • Physical movements and contacts tracked and reported without reference to outcome are misleading, and nothing short of fraudulent when used to make the specious claim that 'women are doing it too. (thelizlibrary.org)
  • In some states, unless there was a title establishing the wife's ownership, all her purchases belonged to her husband, even if bought entirely with her own earnings, and a married woman could not make a contract or obtain a credit card without her husband's signature. (lithub.com)
  • Make small balls out of the batter and put them on prepared baking pans. (blogspot.com)
  • In fact, there was a moment then when, filled with horror, I ventured into the back-alley world of illegal abortions to help someone I cared deeply about who was, I thought, pregnant. (tomdispatch.com)
  • One woman was not permitted to go into her backyard because her husband called every hour or two. (neelscorner.com)
  • Finally, if the husband was violent exclusively in the home, it was a private matter for which the public ministry could not initiate legal proceedings. (ehne.fr)
  • Women's rights activist and BAFTA, Peabody, and Emmy-winning filmmaker Deeyah Khan explores male violence against the women they claim to love - and asks if, behind the rage, rehabilitation and change is possible. (wmm.com)
  • And a society that does not consider women on such a high status has to face miseries and failures regardless of how-so-much noble deeds they perform otherwise. (thelawbrigade.com)
  • Sixty years ago, it already seemed remarkably clear to me how crucial it was that men stop leaving women to face this nightmare essentially alone - and it still does. (tomdispatch.com)
  • We have a collective responsibility to create a social system that ensures the safety, security and dignity of women in society. (thelawbrigade.com)
  • From the civil rights movement to fighting for legal abortion, these women were no strangers to grassroots activism. (now.org)