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Undergraduate Women Face Discrimination, Fewer Leadership Opportunities
In March 2011, the Steering Committee on Undergraduate Women’s Leadership at Princeton University found that “there are differences—subtle but real—between the ways most Princeton female undergraduates and most male undergraduates approach their college years, and in...
“It’s the Economy, Stupid” – Occupy Pennsylvania and Legislative Priorities
Like most Americans, Pennsylvanians want jobs, fair taxation, and smarter spending… but all they’re getting are ill-advised spending cuts, bickering across party lines and moral grandstanding about women’s healthcare. A few weeks ago, the Occupy movement, a...
In Remembrance: Illegal Abortion Kills
Tuesday, October 18th, Pittsburgh pro-choice advocates marched on the office of Senator Jane Orie, one of the PA Senate’s strongest supporters of the dangerous SB 732, which could put most of Pennsylvania’s abortion clinics out of existence by legislating compliance...
Undocumented Women in Custody Forced to Give Birth in Chains
The Huffington Post recently published an expose on the barbaric treatment of some undocumented women who are incarcerated while pregnant. Being shackled during childbirth is illegal in 14 states including Pennsylvania (except in cases where it is determined that the...
Guttmacher Report Shows Increase in Unintended Pregnancies Among Low-Income Women
According to a recent Guttmacher report, the overall rate of unintended pregnancy in the United States stayed the same between 1994 and 2006, but this is no neutral statistic. While the rate of unintended pregnancies has gone down among high-income women, the rate of...
