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Four hours in line to vote. It wasn’t supposed to be this way.
“The moment was supposed to be a bright spot in an otherwise chaotic and uncertain year,” wrote Errin Haines, the 19th’s editor at large.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.