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4/27/2012 - Feminist Majority Board Member Dolores Huerta to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
Feminist Majority President Eleanor Smeal, Executive Vice President Kathy Spillar, and Chair of the Board Peg Yorkin issued the following joint statement on the announcement that Board Member Dolores Huerta will be awarded the Presidential Medal . . .
3/26/2012 - Press Advisory: Women, Money & Power Forum and 25th Anniversary Luncheon
WHAT: The Women, Money, and Power Forum, organized by the Feminist Majority and co-sponsored by 51 organizations featuring leaders of national organizations, key activists, and political leaders. WHO: 25th Anniversary Luncheon Noon to 2:00PM honorin . . .
The Feminist Majority Foundation welcomes and is encouraged by the release by the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Treasury, of advance notice of proposed rule-making on preventive services policy that would ensure employees and s . . .
3/13/2012 - Feminist Majority and NOW Supports the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests
Attorneys representing the Roman Catholic Church and priests who have been charged in two Missouri sex abuse cases have filed a case in an effort to legally compel the Survivors Network of those . . .
3/1/2012 - Women Leaders Vow to Fight Back Against Assaults
As the Senate prepared to vote on the Blunt Amendment, a coalition of over 50 women's organizations held a press conference to announce an unprecedented drive to mobilize women voters on the ground and online around Health and Economic Rights - HERvo . . .
2/10/2012 - Feminist Majority Applauds Obama's Implementation of Birth Control Coverage for Women
The Feminist Majority Foundation applauds President Obama's announced implementation of Health and Human Services guidelines requiring insurers to provide women employees and women dependents, including those of religiously-affiliated institutions, b . . .
2/10/2012 - Feminist Majority Applauds Obama’s Implementation of Birth Control Coverage for Women
The Feminist Majority Foundation applauds President Obama's announced implementation of Health and Human Services guidelines requiring insurers to provide women employees and women dependents, including those of religiously-affiliated institutions, b . . .
The Feminist Majority Foundation applauds the decision of Kathleen Sebelius, Health and Human Services Secretary, and the Obama Administration not to broaden the religious exemption for contraceptive coverage under the Preventive Care package of the . . .
Feminist Majority Foundation Celebrates FBI Approval of New Rape Definition - FBI Director's Action Follows Extensive Campaign By Women's Rights Supporters "Updating the FBI Uniform Crime Report definition of rape is a big win for women," said Ele . . .
12/7/2011 - Feminist Majority Foundation Applauds FBI Advisory Board's Decision to Change Definition of Rape
Late yesterday afternoon, the FBI Criminal Justice Advisory Board voted unanimously to update the archaic definition of rape in the FBI Uniform Crime Report. "It's a great victory," said Eleanor Smeal, president of Feminist Majority Foundation. "T . . .
11/9/2011 - Women's Right Advocates Victorious in Defeating Mississippi Personhood Amendment
In an exciting and important victory for women's rights advocates, Mississippi voters defeated the Personhood Amendment. While the state went Republican and voted for many candidates who supported Initiative 26, a state constitutional personhood amen . . .
10/20/2011 - FBI's UCR Subcommittee votes unanimously to recommend change on rape definition
The Uniform Crime Report Subcommittee of the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) has voted unanimously to recommend a new, more inclusive definition of Rape in the UCR Report. The recommendation will be considered at a public meeting o . . .
HERvotes, launched on August 25th in recognition of the anniversary of the 19th Amendment, with 21 women's organizations, has expanded to 31 organizations, adding to its numbers the YWCA USA, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the National Asia . . .
9/9/2011 - President's Plan Benefits Women
The Presidents' job plan would have a positive impact on women's jobs, woman-owned small businesses, small to medium sized non-profits, and on payroll tax savings for some 78 million employed women, and an extension of unemployment insurance for unem . . .
7/19/2011 - IOM Recommendations Historic Advance in Women's Health Care
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommendations released today for well-woman care are historic and the result of years of advocacy and persistent work of the women's health movement, the improved status of women, and the leadership of the Obama Admi . . .
7/1/2011 - Anti-abortion Extremist Convicted of Stalking Doctor
Today, 12 jurors in Charlotte, N.C., found anti-abortion extremist leader Flip Benham guilty of criminally stalking a Charlotte-area physician who performs abortions. This is the second time Benham, who is director of Operation Rescue/Operation Sav . . .
6/20/2011 - Supreme Court: Wal-Mart Too Big to Sue
In a critical five to four vote, with Justice Antonin Scalia writing for the five justice majority, the Supreme Court made it much harder for the victims of discrimination to take class action cases against large employers. The US Supreme Court major . . .
The selection of Jill Abramson, an accomplished feminist, as executive editor of The New York Times, which is not only the most influential newspaper in the United States, but also the premier online news platform, smashes a barrier to women . . .
