Women's Voices
18 posts todayA proposed hate speech bill in Ireland will implement stronger sentences for hate speech. Gender identity is listed among the protected categories; biological sex is not. https://t.co/DPQcFS...
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18 posts todayVia Graham Linehan — "Just got my first ‘we know where you live’ Christmas card from trans rights activists. Delivered by hand, so it’s from one of my neighbours." https://t.co/Tc2WZc...
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18 posts todayAbout 75% of rural women in India who work full-time are farmers, with numbers rising as men migrate to work in factories and construction sites. Yet farming is still widely seen as men's work and only 13% of women own the land they till. ...
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18 posts todayA man who secretly recorded teenage girls has avoided jail time after pleading guilty to upskirting and possessing child abuse material. This is not uncommon; men are increasingly receiving no prison sentences for sexually filming women and girls. ...
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18 posts todayRT @DreyfusJames: Unbelievable. But only too believable...🤬🤬🤬 https://t.co/o94lxU...
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18 posts todayBirth certificates don't have "gender markers," they observe sex. Allowing for the falsification of documents is a boon to sex offenders while simultaneously enforcing the sexist idea that gender stereotypes are innate. https://t.co/cXaN36...
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18 posts todayIncreasing incidents of parents trading their daughters for cows has fueled the practice of child marriages in South Sudan. The custom has taken such a dangerous proportion that regional administrative chiefs have asked the government ban the ...
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18 posts todayIt's not enough, apparently, to lie about sex on official identification — now birth certificates can be changed. What an incredible win for sex offenders. https://t.co/NAzUrA...
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18 posts todayEvery minute of every hour of every day the lives of women and girls are treated as the collateral damage of male sexual entitlement. https://t.co/MQtF58...
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18 posts todayA long-awaited new law in Denmark will reform sexual violence laws to make consent rather than violence the basis for determining rape. If men respected women, such laws would not be necessary. https://t.co/636pqT...
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18 posts today"Gebru says Google fired her. Google says she resigned. Thousands of employees there have signed a petition on her behalf. And Gebru is trying to figure out how she, one of the few Black women who studies ethics in A.I., ended up here." ...
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18 posts todayA man who raped a five year-old girl and avoided jail was found to have received an unduly lenient sentence. After outrage from the girl's mother, he will have a one year curfew and a community order. Still no jail time. https://t.co/WrrIWg...
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18 posts todayMen know what pornography is: it is the propaganda of patriarchy, an instruction guide for female subservience and male sexual violence. "The headmaster also forced the girls to watch pornographic content and then asked them to perform the sexual ...
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18 posts todayRT @Slatzism: I will never forget the story of Dr. Priyanka Reddy, who was brutally raped, tortured, and burned alive in Hyderabad, India by a group of men. The footage of her rape and murder was up on the porn site XVideos, monetized and trending at ...
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18 posts todayIn the year of Zimbabwe's 40th anniversary of independence, the country has battled drought, protests and food insecurity. In response, photographer Hannah Mentz created a project showing the achievements of 40 Zimbabweans, including leading women. ...
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18 posts today"The female population in U.S. jails has risen as the male population has declined. Many women enter jails suffering mental health crises and addictions, and sometimes pregnant. Yet local lockups are ill-equipped to handle this growing population ...
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18 posts todayThe mayor of Paris has branded as "absurd" a €90,000 fine for appointing "too many women" to management positions. "To promote and one day achieve parity, we must accelerate the tempo and ensure that in the appointments, there are more women than ...
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18 posts todayHathloul has been arrested and detained several times for defying the country’s ban on women driving and for campaigning for an end to the male guardianship system. Prosecutors are seeking a 20-year sentence. #FreeLoujain https://t.co/BbOllN...