News & Commentary about Women's Rights

Today, gender bias continues to create huge barriers for many women. Ongoing struggles include ensuring equal economic opportunities, educational equity, and an end to gender-based violence.

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A case work supervisor looks over the first screen of software used by workers who field calls at an intake call screening center for the Allegheny County Children.

Mar 14, 2023

How Policy Hidden in an Algorithm is Threatening Families in This Pennsylvania County

Mar 9, 2023

The Women Who Made ACLU History

Mar 9, 2023

How Originalism Hurts Women

Mar 2, 2023

Reckoning with America's Racial Residential Segregation

Jan 5, 2023

Dahlia Lithwick on the Law's Hidden Heroes: Women

Dec 15, 2022

2022 Wins With David Cole

With helmets, gas masks and armed with shotguns, state police overlook the Attica prison yard which is filled with prisoners, face down in mud with their hands behind their heads. Other policemen are in orange ponchos are walking and searching the prisoners in Sept. 1971.

Sep 26, 2022

50 Years of Fighting for the Rights of Incarcerated People

Sep 21, 2022

4 Things Public Schools Can and Can’t Do When It Comes to Dress Codes

Sep 15, 2022

How to Fight Your School's Sexist Dress Code

Sep 8, 2022

This Podcast Could Be Banned in Florida Schools