80-90% of all garment workers around the world are women and girls. They toil for a pittance in filthy factories, endure verbal and physical abuse and sometimes rape. The exploitation of women's free or cheap labor is a pillar of the modern global ...
Under proposed hate crime legislation in Scotland, women could potentially be targeted for objecting to males in women's spaces, including in prisons, in restrooms and changing rooms, and in sports. https://t.co/XZEABI...
Male violence against women is the most pervasive form of terrorism: "According to the largest study to date, at least 736 million women over the age of 15 experience assault – a figure that has barely changed over the last decade." #SexNotGender ...
South Dakota @GovKristiNoem said she would sign a bill limiting female teams and sports at public schools to students who are biologically female after the bill passed the South Dakota Senate 20-15. #SaveWomensSports https://t.co/jddtgh...
A man in Ireland settled a case against the HSE for costs to cover surrogacy following the death of his wife, who died from cervical cancer after undergoing years of IVF hormone treatments. https://t.co/nwBmxw...
Campaign group @fairplaywomen argued the @ONS unlawfully allowed gender identity as another sex. "If we don't have good data on sex we can't monitor inequalities due to sex, and if we can't measure it, we can't make good policies to remedy it." ...
The mantras "trans women are women" and "sex work is work" are similar inversions that are often used in conjunction. Both form a framework for men's sexual entitlement to women and the erosion of boundaries. The former conditions the mind; the ...
An employee at a Women's Prison in Washington reports a woman was immediately raped upon the transfer of a male convicted sex offender, who identifies as transgender, and women are terrified as 150 other men are in line to be transferred. ...
Last year, an average of 10 women were killed in Mexico every day; there were some 16,000 cases of rape — nearly two rapes for every hour of each day. From 2014 - 2018, only 5% of all sexual assault allegations resulted in a criminal sentence. ...
RT @iseult: There is so much left to do for women in Ireland. https://t.co/HGza8o...
"Women do not believe that men believe what pornography says about women. But they do. From the worst to the best of them, they do." — Andrea Dworkin https://t.co/PfgEux...
RT @CBSNews: WATCH: Women turned a metal barrier — erected around Mexico’s National Palace ahead of International Women's Day — into a memorial for victims of femicide and rape. https://t.co/mFkDbr...
RT @SarraMander: Virtual Bouquet in Suffragette colours on #IWD2021 - thank you @Baroness_Nichol @jk_rowling @MForstater @AnnMSinnott @AudreySuffolk @SVPhillimore @legalfeminist @fairplaywomen standing for women’s sex-based rights & ...
RT @l_amazone_: « When a woman is poor and hungry, the humane thing to do is to put food in her mouth, not your dick. » @RachelRMoran, prostitution survivor 📸 Anaïs Ramos https://t.co/7ZBV2q...
Around 1,000 women gathered near Istanbul’s main Taksim Square, protesting a lack of action by authorities to prevent and punish violence against women. Turkey does not keep official statistics on femicide. #IWD #WomensDay #InternationalWomen...
Pres. Obrador erected the barricade in front of the National Palace ahead of #WomensDay Feminists turned the wall into a memorial for women killed by male violence. In Mexico an average of 10 women are killed each day. #Feminicidio #8Marzo2021 ...
"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver.” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860 – 1935) https://t.co/wDQ2JF... #SexNotGender https://t.co/kcYybx...