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This Little Book from 1917 Has a List of Every Reason Why Women Shouldn’t Vote and It’s Just as Relevant Today
JANICE WILLIAMS /
Newsweek
Published in 1917, there is a book that exists claiming to contain all the reasons why women shouldn't be allowed to vote. Literally titled, This Little Book Contains Every Reason Why Women Should Not Vote, the book contains nothing, absolutely nothing but blank pages.
Under EU laws, tampons and sanitary towels are classed as luxury items as opposed to essentials, which menas member states cannot reduce the tax rate below five percent. In 2019, Germany reduced the tax on sanitary products from 19 percent - the same luxury bracket as caviar.
Republican Women, Widely Dismissed in the Trump Era, Crushed Democrats in Key House Races
ALEXANDRA HUTZLER /
Newsweek
"I hope the Republican Party as a whole really sees this as a good strategy for the party, in that these women were a very good investment for them. They had a high rate of return in terms of flipping these seats and narrowing the Democrats' majority in the House."
Women of Color Should Be the Ones Remaking U.S. Foreign Policy
CHRISTINE AHNYIFAT SUSSKIND AND CINDY WIESNER /
Newsweek
Half of Joe Biden’s DoD Presidential Transition Team Are Women—Trump Had Just One
Jeffrey Martin /
Newsweek
Transition teams are put in place to ensure a peaceful transfer of power between presidential administrations and federal agencies after a presidential election. More than half of the Biden-Harris Transition Team teams are comprised of women.
Kamala Harris ‘Nude’ Google Searches After Debate Speak Volumes About Women in Politics
Kashmira Gander /
Newsweek
According to Google Trends—a website run by the search engine that collects data on how popular search terms are around the world—there was a surge in people in the U.S. searching for "Kamala Harris bathing suit," "Kamala Harris Nude," and "Kamala Harris bikini" in the hours after the pair faced off.
Voters Will Consider a Record Number of All-Female Races in the 2020 Election
ALEXANDRA HUTZLER /
Newsweek
Women have secured both the Democratic and Republican nominations in a record 51 contests for the House of Representatives and Senate. The previous record of 33 woman-versus-woman races for federal office was set in 2018, the year of the so-called "pink wave" that sent at least 110 women to Capitol Hill.
Amy Coney Barrett and the New Feminism of Interdependence
Serena Sigillito /
Newsweek
It's time for a new kind of feminism to emerge—and for GOP lawmakers to demonstrate that their commitment to family values is more than just lip service. That will require two significant shifts. The first is a philosophical one, defining a new feminism of interdependence rather than radical autonomy. The second is a political one, pursuing a pro-family economic agenda.
Central Park’s Latest Statue Is Different—Because the Women it Honors Were Real
JANICE WILLIAMS /
Newsweek
While the monument is a particularly special one for Central Park as it's first ode to actual American women figures—the park does include statutes of fictional women like the whimsical Alice in Wonderland fixture and Mother Goose—the statue's debut is also a significant one in American history as it's unveiling comes on the 100th-year anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
The Most Interesting Women in the World: A Century of Explorers
Kathleen Rellihan /
Newsweek
These real-life wild women threw caution and convention out the window—such as the first women to ride solo across the U.S. in motorcycles; the first woman to summit the tallest peaks on every continent; and the first Black woman to host her own travel show, flying her own plane to remote islands around the world.
Female Public Health Experts Say COVID Death Threats They Receive More Graphic Than Those Sent to Male Counterparts
Katherine Fung /
Newsweek
Sixty-two percent of state health officials are women, according to the Center for American Women and Politics. Female public health experts say the onslaught of COVID death threats they receive is "absolutely" more graphic and personal than the ones received by their male counterparts.