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Boston Gender Issues

Equal Pay Day, April 17, 2012

Wear red on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, Equal Pay Day, to symbolize how "in the red" women are with their pay.Begun in 1996, Equal Pay Day...
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Denise Hajjar to debut Spring and Summer collection at benefit

  • Denise Hajjar
  • March 29, 2012
Join the Big Sister Association of Greater Boston on Tuesday, April 3, at 6:00 p.m. at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel for the debut of designer...
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Senate Refuses to Vote on Shaheen Amendment

  • Shaheen Amendment
  • December 21, 2011
2011 was a year of vicious attacks, fronted by conservative ideologies, on women’s reproductive and sexual lives. No, it went beyond just a...
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The Senate will decide the fate of millions of women with the Protect Life Act

On October 13, 2011, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 358, or the Protect Life Act. The referendum, referred to the Senate just 4 days...
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Masking reality: The push to eradicate Sex Education in Massachusetts

The evolution of sex education in the United States has been anything but static. The movement to educate young men and women began in the early...
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Barstool Sports: The common man epitomized

The catch line of Barstool Sports is quite simple: “By the common man, for the common man.” Considering the customary connotation of...
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Motion to repeal Romney's health care reform by anti-abortion group in Boston

This past Wednesday a pile of petitions reached the desk of Attorney General Martha Coakley in hopes of being included on the 2012 ballot questions...
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PPLM celebrates free birth control

  • Affordable Care Plan
  • August 1, 2011
In a press release today, the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts issued a celebratory response to the U.S. Department of Health and Human...
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The Roxbury International Film Festival fighting against gender mutilation

  • Roxbury International Film Festival
  • July 27, 2011
In 1965, Waris Dirie was born in a small region of Somalia called Gallcaio. A victim of genital mutilation and a forced marriage to an older man,...
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Closing the gap between female and male athletes

There was something poetic about Japan’s win on Sunday in Germany for the World Cup. Out of the rubble, these women showed the true...
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