Women’s Rights
15 Threads
Paid period leave was announced by the Odisha state government. 🧵 Women can avail one day per month as a paid menstrual leave in state government jobs and private jobs. Odisha i...
Women's reservation in legislatures is welcome. Women leaders are likely to redefine power as delivery of services, better edu & health outcomes & empowerment, not control. Reserva...
1. General sense of security across the entire country. No more drone attacks, night raids, significant reduction in terror attacks. Reduced crime rate. Families travel throughout...
Updated 🧵! Please RT and join this effort in your state! Earlier this month, @OfficeDepot Skokie refused to print my “AMERICAN TERF” business card in support of women’s rights beca...
@AsiyaRodrigo Let us go back in time. Feminism did not begin with the suffrage movement. It all started with liberalism. So, prior to the suffrage movement, there were philosophers...
I want to reiterate my thoughts on the IEA's ban on women's education which I know irritates many of you Before you tell me that I'm a misogynistic Neanderthal, remember that I'm...
A note on FGM: "FGM activism’s main point is that girls who undergo circumcision or other forms of FGM have no choice in their mutilation. Yet, no activist horror is shown in NGO w...
Today I am going to the #WomensRally at the Scottish Parliament, to protest against @scotgov, @scotgovfm and @shonarobison's move to reform the GRA. I am saying #NoToSelfID and #No...
BYU health insurance does not offer its female faculty birth control until after the birth of her 5th child. 5TH CHILD. Just wanted to remind you of that
This thread might have thought to mention that most of the breastfeeding “costs” listed are downstream of America’s frankly barbarous lack of maternity leave entitlement https://t....
I don’t think our politicians have the slightest idea how much anger is building among women from all walks of life at the attempts to threaten and intimidate them out of speaking...
Legality of Islamic dresses for women https://t.co/orDDECXtw2
With all due respect to Justice Sotomayor, it is not a minority of doctors who believe an unborn child can feel pain before 24 weeks. #EmpowerWomenPromoteLife
Second in my series about Hafsa bint Sirin (d. 719), Muslim women’s religious life and the history that informs the world of my novels The Sufi Mysteries. Today we look at Hafsa bi...
There is not a single reason that Sudanese women, born outside of modern Nubian tribes, should be stopped or policed for using the word "Kandaka" to describe themselves.
