Here are things to do around Maine to celebrate women this month.
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Posted inNation & World, Politics
Some House Democrats call on Biden to have Equal Rights Amendment ratified
The amendment has met all the constitutional requirements, but has not been added to the Constitution because not enough states ratified it in time to meet a Congress-mandated deadline.
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Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics
Sen. Collins makes BBC’s 2024 ‘100 Women’ list
She is 1 of 7 American women to make the list, which includes artists, astronauts and activists.
Posted inNation & World, News
Taliban begins enforcing new draconian laws, and Afghan women despair
The new religious code issued late last month bans women from raising their voices, reciting the Quran in public, and looking at men other than their husbands or relatives.
Posted inScarborough Leader, South Portland Sentry
From Augusta: Honoring Maine’s suffragettes and voting rights
On Aug. 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, determining the right to vote in elections should not be based on an individual’s sex and effectively giving women the right to vote. Voting rights for women came after decades and generations of protest through civil disobedience, marches, lobbying and so much […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Cops & Courts, Local & State, News
Portrait of nation’s first female Supreme Court justice, saved from trash, to hang in Augusta courthouse
An oil painting of the late Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, found 10 years ago in a pile at the Yarmouth Transfer Station, has been turned over to the state’s court system.
Posted inHealth, Local & State, News
Health care advocates seek $3.4 million in Maine state funding for reproductive health
The funding, if approved, would not pay for abortions but would cover other reproductive and primary care at 61 health centers across the state.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Review
Plucky 18th-century midwife Martha Ballard is entangled in a brutal rape case
In ‘Frozen River,’ Ariel Lawhon spins a propulsive historical thriller from a few basic real-life facts. ‘It’s a fast read, but some of the ideas that drive it are troubling.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Opinion: Workplace inequality should be consigned to the past
Not enough has been made of three federal laws that provide historic protection to women in the workplace.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
Women across Iceland, including prime minister, go on strike for equal pay and no more violence
The island nation just below the Arctic Circle has been ranked as the world’s most gender-equal country 14 years in a row by the World Economic Forum.