"In most families, property left behind by fathers is divided among male children and women are excluded. In some cases where shares are given to women, they are limited to things owned by their mothers and cannot inherit lands and houses." ...
Until February 7, 1971, only men were considered citizens. To change the constitution and allow women to vote, a majority of male voters had to approve, which accounts for why Switzerland granted women's suffrage only 50 years ago. #SexNotGender ...
RT @WomensLibFront: This USA Today “fact check” says “transgender females” can play on women’s teams, but NOT “biologically male athletes.” Remember when some women said that if we ceded “woman,” and moved on to “female,” they’d just demand that, ...
"Women are often directly involved in the farming. In fact, 85% of rural women are engaged in agriculture, but only 13% own any land. There are lots of widows who work on farms as well, as suicide is a major issue among farmers.” #FarmersProtests ...
The Irish College of General Practitioners (ICGP) has removed a statement from a guide on transgender health that puberty blockers are a “reversible intervention” and no longer says that oestrogen and testosterone therapy are “partially reversible”. ...
"The investigation was launched after a woman, believed to be a surrogate mother involved in the illegal network, gave birth to a premature baby with multiple health problems including a brain haemorrhage." #StopSurrogacy #SexNotGender ...
"UNICEF estimates that coronavirus-related school closures and disruptions to aid programmes mean a further two million girls are now at risk of being circumcised before the end of the decade, bringing the total number to 70 million." #EndFGM ...
Some 275,000 women left the US workforce last month, compared with 71,000 men. Women make up over half of the 7 million people “out of the workforce”; 2.4 million women have exited work since last February, compared with 1.8 million men. ...
Author Lisa See's bestselling historical novel “The Island of Sea Women” depicts the perilous lives and troubled friendship of two members of the haenyeo (women free divers on the Korean island of Jeju) over a span of eight decades. ...
RT @womensart1: Big Mama Thornton (1926-1984), influential US rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter, who recorded the song "Hound Dog" before Elvis and was openly a lesbian #womensart #BlackHistoryMonth https://t.co/KiXstZ...
"Dozens of activists have quit the Green Party in protest at the election of a transgender campaigner as head of its women's group. The exodus follows the appointment of Kathryn Bristow, who was born a man but now identifies as a transwoman." ...