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Boston Children’s Hospital will no longer perform two types of intersex surgery on children | The 19th
The decision comes a few months after Lurie Children’s Hospital announced it would suspend intersex surgeries.
The country needs poll workers. Young women are stepping up
As the pandemic keeps older poll workers from volunteering, younger women continue a legacy of being on the front lines of elections.
The spread of conspiracies and disinformation by women on social media
More and more Instagram users, more than half of which are women, have been unintentionally spreading QAnon conspiracies.
Amy Coney Barrett has ties to an anti-LGBTQ+ organization. Why do advocates claim it's a hate group?
ADF wants to litigate LGBTQ+ people out of existence, say advocates.
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Alliance Defending Freedom doesn't just want to restrict LGBTQ+ rights. It wants to litigate LGBTQ+ people out of existence, say advocates.
Amy Coney Barrett has done five paid speaking engagements for the group since 2011.
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Democrats call statehouse races ‘the last line of defense’ for abortion rights
Ahead of Amy Coney Barrett’s likely confirmation to the Supreme Court, Democrats and abortion rights groups are now turning their attention down-ballot.
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Ahead of Amy Coney Barrett's likely confirmation to the Supreme Court, abortion rights groups are turning their attention to state legislatures — "the last line of defense."
📌 80% of statehouse seats are up for grabs this November.
From @bcrodriguez
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Health care is on the line for women voters — and they want to hear more
Women health care voters fueled Democrats' gains in 2018. They want to hear how candidates would change a system they say isn't working.
Inside the COVID unit at the world’s largest women’s prison
The Central California Women’s Facility quarantined prisoners with COVID-19 with those who never tested positive for the virus.
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The Central California Women's Facility, the largest women's prison in the world, allegedly quarantined COVID-positive and negative people together.
Hear from those who lived in building 503.
New from @keaux_ and @shoeleatherkate
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Latinas had the highest unemployment rate this year — and it’s driving them to vote
In April, one in five Latinas were jobless. In November, unemployment will be on their minds.
Has Susan Collins changed? Or have the rest of us?
Collins is fighting to survive in a political climate remade by Trump, his Supreme Court picks and a nationalized Senate election.
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Susan Collins coasted to reelection in 2002, 2008 and 2014 by 16-, 23- and 37-point margins, winning each of Maine's 16 counties.
This election year, polls show Collins trailing her Democratic challenger Sara Gideon. What's changed?
From @AmandaBecker
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Kamala Harris shows up ‘prepared’ and ‘poised’ at debate with Mike Pence
The vice presidential debate was calm, civil and focused on policy — at least compared to the first Trump-Biden face-off.
For family caregivers, COVID is a mental health crisis in the making | The 19th
The work is grueling and unpaid. As COVID continues, family caregivers — overwhelmingly women — say the burden is driving their vote.
For Kamala Harris, the debate is when skill meets opportunity
Kamala Harris will bring her experience as a Black woman and a skilled litigator to the vice presidential debate with Mike Pence.
New research reveals 'shocking' rates of anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination | The 19th
“This is just people going about their daily lives."
865,000 women left the workforce last month
Overall, 661,000 jobs were added in the U.S. labor force between August and September — but women still left it at alarming numbers.
Here’s what a more conservative Supreme Court could mean for LGBTQ+ Americans
"First and foremost is marriage equality.”
The future of space is female
NASA plans to send a woman to the moon and is putting women among its highest ranks, part of an effort toward more inclusivity.
‘An extraordinary force in the law:’ Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s legacy on gender equity | The 19th
Lawyers, scholars, and Lilly Ledbetter describe the impact the Supreme Court justice had on their lives and the law.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87 | The 19th
Ginsburg reportedly died of complications from metastatic cancer of the pancreas at her home in Washington, D.C., surrounded by her family. She was 87.
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, died today. She was 87.
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Women in President Trump’s White House earn 69 cents for every $1 paid to male staff
The gender pay gap in the Trump White House is wider than the national pay gap and wider than the gap in the Obama White House.
A new database tracks COVID-19’s effects on sex and gender | The 19th
The gender breakdown in information is a current blind spot and critical to understanding how the virus works — and what the treatment could be.
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There are gender and sex data gaps in global COVID-19 information. This data could be critical to understanding how the virus works and what the treatment could be.
A new database is trying to address that — and it's the first major effort.
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