Taking off the hijab: 'My dream was to wear what I wanted' (www.bbc.com)
Three Muslim women share their stories of removing their hijabs, despite facing fierce opposition.
The Riot Grrrl Manifesto (historyisaweapon.com)
BECAUSE us girls crave records and books and fanzines that speak to US that WE feel included in and can understand in our own ways....
In Spain, dozens of girls are reporting AI-generated nude photos of them being circulated at school: ‘My heart skipped a beat’ (english.elpais.com)
Police investigation remains open. The photo of one of the minors included a fly; that is the logo of Clothoff, the application that is presumably being used to create the images, which promotes its services with the slogan: “Undress anybody with our free service!”
Women less likely than men to be given CPR in public places, research finds (medicalxpress.com)
Bystanders are less likely to give cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to women than men, particularly if the emergency takes place in a public area, according to research presented at the European Emergency Medicine Congress. The study also shows that in private locations older people, especially older men, are less likely to...
"How can we make lemmy a safer place for women? Is it even possible to?" - literature.cafe (literature.cafe)
Conversation ongoing over there, inviting anyone who wants to participate to please consider sharing their thoughts if they are willing to. If you wanna post in the original thread from your instance copy and paste the link into your instances search panel...
"Together we will break free! / Feminism is the radical idea that women are people" (todon.eu)
Feminist mural featuring Angela Davis spotted in Cadaques, Catalonia, Spain
Farm12 in Puyallup WA is how an anti-abortion org makes money
Farm 12 is a front for Step by Step, a pregnancy center in Puyallup that discourages abortion and uses dirty tricks against women seeking them. It’s one of the ways the organization generates money to use in its ongoing efforts to disenfranchise and dis-empower women in the State of Washington....
30 Criticisms That Hold Women Leaders Back, According to New Research (www.sheknows.com)
‘The researchers found that there was no “sweet spot” where a woman could position herself without being criticized. Women were either too young or too old, too attractive or not attractive enough, too educated or not educated enough. Introverted women were not seen as leaders and extroverted women were viewed as...
The Summer of the Black Woman (19thnews.org)
Bedtime Check-Ins and Verbal Abuse: Women’s Life in Spanish Soccer (www.nytimes.com)
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A Historic First for Mexico as Two Women Vie for the Presidency (www.nytimes.com)
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Talking Menopause & Aging While Decorating Vulva and Uterus Biscuits! (www.youtube.com)
Educational chatter about aging and menopause. I realized watching this that I haven’t ever been taught anything about menopause in my life. This was enlightening so I wanted to share.
‘You Know What To Do, Boys’: Sexist App Lets Men Rate AI-Generated Women (www.vice.com)
20 years after Mark Zuckerberg’s infamous ‘hot-or-not’ website, developers have learned absolutely nothing....
Opinion | Why do men kill women’s plants? (wapo.st)
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The women’s recession is officially over — but not everyone has recovered equally (19thnews.org)
Strong women gave us a compelling World Cup. Weak men obscured it. (wapo.st)
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Patients have better outcomes with female surgeons, studies find (www.theguardian.com)
Women working in Antarctica say they were left to fend for themselves against sexual harassers (apnews.com)
How our female athletes feel forced to choose between a ‘strong’ or ‘feminine’ look (www.staffs.ac.uk)
A Century of “Shrill”: How Bias in Technology Has Hurt Women’s Voices (www.newyorker.com)
An old article, but I just stumbled upon it and found it enlightening. The trope of criticizing women for the way they talk has deeper implications than I thought.
How the patriarchy contributes to climate chaos [27:49] (www.youtube.com)
The day women shut down Iceland (youtu.be)
1 in 5 women report mistreatment from medical staff during pregnancy (www.npr.org)
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I walked home alone a few days ago and couldn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to. So I wrote this poem about my experience
I don’t know if content like this is welcome here. I thought that probably many here can relate and I needed to vent. But I don’t want to spam the community with something it wasn’t intended for, so please feel free to tell me if this doesn’t fit here and I’ll delete the post....
Clinic Fire Deals Blow to Abortion Access on California-Arizona Border (theintercept.com)
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