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 Prior to the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) in 2011, an estimated 48,500 lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals...
*By Kate MeyerLast week Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Obama and Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, and Preeta Bansal...
By Teresa BagleyFeminism shouldn't be exclusive to scholars, advocates, researchers and policy wonks. Women's issues affect all of us, and this is an...

Member Experts

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Miriam W. Yeung is Executive Director of the National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum (NAPAWF). She guides the country’s only national, multi-...
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Since May 2008, Pamela Shifman has served as the Director of Initiatives for Women and Girls at the NoVo Foundation, where she directs its work on...
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Juhu Thukral is the Director of Law and Advocacy at The Opportunity Agenda. She has been an advocate for the rights of low-income and immigrant women...
Kyla Bender-Baird, Research and Programs Manager, is providing the Council with a wide range of research and communications support. She received a...
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Silvia Henriquez is responsible for the overall management, fundraising and administration of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health....
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Dr. Lisa McClain is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of Gender Studies at Boise State University. She researches the issue of...

News

  • December 28, 2011

    The Defense Department said the nation’s military service academies had received 65 reports of sexual assault during the 2010-2011 academic year, the highest total since the Pentagon began maintaining data in 2004.


  • December 26, 2011

     Police and municipal inspectors removed signs in a haredi (ultra-orthodox) area of Beit Shemesh calling for segregated sidewalks for women on Sunday night. Police said crowds of men surrounded the inspectors, adding that the crowds were...


  • December 22, 2011

     On Tuesday, thousands of women—the Associated Press’s estimate put the number at ten thousand—went to Tahrir Square to protest. (According to Reuters, the women were “surrounded by men pledging to protect them.”)...


  • December 9, 2011

    Critiques the methodology used by Professor Kamal al-Subhi, the American-educated retired professor in Saudi Arabia who took it upon himself to prepare a scientific study on the effects of women driving on society. 

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  • December 5, 2011

    A report given to the all-male Shura Council, which advises the monarchy in Saudi Arabia, claims that allowing women in the kingdom to drive could encourage premarital sex, a rights activist said Saturday.