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Palakkad to vote today; 10 candidates in fray

PALAKKAD: After a month-and-half of high-octane campaigning and political controversies, the Palakkad assembly constituency will go to polls on Wednesday. They include 1,00,290 women, 94,416 men, and four third gender voters. Of these, the Government LP School in Kunnathurmedu, BES Bharathi Tirtha Vidyalayam in Kallekkad, CJB School in Kinassery, and a polling booth at Neythukara anganwadi are the four auxiliary …

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1 month ago

Books: The birth control battle waged during early women's suffrage

Slate

Gabfest Reads is a monthly series from the hosts of Slate’s Political Gabfest podcast. Recently, Emily Bazelon talked with Stephanie Gorton about how two women, Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett revolutionized how the country thinks about birth control. But interestingly, I think Dennett always pitched birth control as something that women would turn to after suffrage had been won. …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Voters with a female governor vote to keep ‘him’ in the state constitution

NPR

Voters with a female governor vote to keep ‘him’ in the state constitution toggle caption Screenshot by NPR/South Dakota State Historical Society South Dakota’s constitution has dozens of references to men holding the highest offices in the state, as in, “He shall have power” and “the duties of his office.” But the state also has women holding some of its …

Constitution State South Dakota Vote

1 month, 2 weeks ago

'We are being protected now': Alina Habba says Trump gave women more rights with justices

Raw Story

An attorney and adviser to Donald Trump claimed the former president gave women "more rights" when he appointed three Supreme Court justices who would go on to end federal abortion rights. During an Election Day interview on Fox News, Alina Habba responded to Sen. Mark Kelly after he pointed out that Trump had called to punish women for having abortions. …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Women Vote. They Will Again in 2024.

Slate

Of all the signs at all of the abortion protests and all of the women’s marches, the one that always walloped me in the solar plexus was the one, inevitably carried by a woman in her 70s, that read: “I can’t believe I still have to protest this shit.” During Donald Trump’s term, it stood for the proposition that the …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Meet the conservative women who are keeping their votes for Harris a secret

NPR

Meet the conservative women who are keeping their votes for Harris a secret toggle caption Hannah Beier/Getty Images In political ads and campaign speeches, supporters of Vice President Harris have a message for Republican women: Your vote is private, and no one will know if you secretly vote for Harris. “No one gets to know how you're going to vote,” …

Republican Harris Vote No One

1 month, 3 weeks ago

What Black Male Celebrities Are Saying About Kamala Harris That She Isn’t Saying Herself

Politico

Sitting on the impromptu stage in the back of the club are an array of VIPs, many of whom are beloved in the Black community: actor Michael Ealy ; record industry veteran Kevin Liles, the man behind Megan Thee Stallion’s success; retired NFL quarterback Rodney Peete; Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Thomas Booker; former BET personality/journalist Jeff Johnson. “We’re less than …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Michelle Obama Warns Men Against Voting for Trump: 'A Vote Against Us'

The Hindu

Former First Lady Michelle Obama addresses a crowd in Michigan, urging men to vote for Vice President Kamala Harris. She warns men about the potential consequences of voting for Donald Trump, including a decline in women's reproductive health. Obama emphasizes the importance of women's health and urges men to consider the impact of their vote on women's lives.

Kalamazoo

2 months ago

Sops and Schemes: Will Maharashtra's Ladki Bahin Lift the State?

Hindustan Times

The article highlights the impact of the Ladki Bahin Yojana on women's economic empowerment in Maharashtra. It features several testimonials from women who have benefited from the scheme, emphasizing its positive impact on their financial situations and overall well-being. The article also discusses the political landscape of the state, with the ruling alliance facing a challenge from the opposition in …

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3 months ago

'Don’t think that’s an issue for you': GOP Senate candidate jabs women over 50 on abortion

Raw Story

New video shows an Ohio Republican Senate candidate laughing as he questions women who say they plan to vote based on candidates' stances on abortion rights. Bernie Moreno was recorded on video Friday at a town hall in Warren County, Ohio, in which he slammed suburban women who say abortion access will define how they vote, NBC4i reported. '” Reagan …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump's flip-flops show 'contempt for voters' as campaign panics: Morning Joe panel

Raw Story

Panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Tuesday did little to hide their disgust after watching former President Donald Trump once again push false claims about blue states allowing for the "execution" of babies at nine months of pregnancy. After watching Trump falsely claim that states such as Minnesota allow women to "execute" babies after they're born, host Mika Brzezinski simply …

Abortion Trump Panics Morning

5 months, 1 week ago

Gambia upholds its ban on female genital cutting. Reversing it would have been a global first

Associated Press

BANJUL, Gambia — Lawmakers in the West African nation of Gambia on Monday rejected a bill that would have overturned a ban on female genital cutting. Just because men didn’t believe that female genital cutting harmed us.” She added: “And right now, girls are still being cut. Gambia’s Islamic body in 2023 issued a fatwa, recommending the lifting of the …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Politicians see women’s issues as ‘afterthought’, suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst’s descendent warns

The Independent

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Politicians see women's issues as an “afterthought”, the great granddaughter of a …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Colour-coordinated, theme-based 32 polling booths set up in Srinagar for voters

India TV News

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: To create a festival-like environment on the day of polling, the poll authorities in Srinagar district have prepared 32 theme-based polling booths that are colour-coordinated as per its message. The 32 polling stations will have vibrant and colourful message boards, so that voters experience a festival-like environment, besides promoting participatory and inclusive voting in Srinagar, said …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

A family of 96 exercise its franchise

Hindustan Times

A family comprising 96 eligible voters exercised their right to vote together at Nolvi village in Hubbali taluk on Tuesday. Led by Kanteppa Koppad, the family’s head, this collective voting tradition has been upheld through several previous elections. Sahadevappa Koppad, another senior member of the family, highlighted that they have voted together in the last three assembly and two Lok …

Family Vote

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Samyukta Kisan Morcha appeals to farmers to vote against the BJP

The Hindu

Members of the Samyukta Kisan Morcha have appealed to farmers to vote out the BJP. Farmer leaders from Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Karnataka, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and other States urged farmers of North Karnataka to “punish the BJP” as it followed anti-farmer policies all through its tenure. We urge farmers, labour, women and the common man to teach a …

Farmers Bjp

9 months ago

Senegal’s women voters could make a miracle happen in presidential election

Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera’s Nicolas Haque recounts the tumultuous events leading up to Senegal’s presidential election and how some voters are hoping for a miracle on Sunday. Thousands were released, including opposition leader Ousmane Sonko and his deputy Bassirou Diomaye Faye – the election candidate representing the banned political party PASTEF. Described by his critics as the “billionaire civil servant” – billions …

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54 years, 11 months ago

Abortion and 2024: How pro-choice PAC EMILY's List might actually be helping Republicans.

Slate

If you hear just one thing about the 2024 election coming from Democrats this year, it will likely be some version of “abortion is on the ballot.” This was the primary refrain during the 2022 midterms, as well—and with good reason. One might think, then, that one of the country’s largest pro-choice political organizations, EMILY’s List, would be in lockstep …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

French Senate approves a bill to make abortion a constitutional right

Associated Press

PARIS — France’s Senate on Wednesday adopted a bill to enshrine a woman’s right to an abortion in the constitution, clearing a key hurdle for legislation promised by President Emmanuel Macron in response to a rollback in abortion rights in the United States. Macron said after the vote that his government is committed to “making women’s right to have an …

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2 years, 2 months ago

Strictly’s problem with women is deeper than Shirley Ballas

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Now, you don’t need multiple Latin championship wins under …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Kansas Voters Were the First to See the Brutal Reality of Abortion Bans—and Rebuke It

Slate

Back in 2012, Republican Rep. Todd Akin, in the midst of what would prove to be an unsuccessful Senate run, tried to assure us that in cases of “legitimate rape,” pregnancy wasn’t a possibility because it was a known fact that “the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down.” He was, of course, obscenely wrong. …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Why more women voted for the BJP in 2022 elections | Analysis

India Today

The story of women voting in India has added one more puzzle for social scientists to decipher. In many states too, the party gained some advantage with women voters - the trend was very visible in the 2020 Bihar and 2021 Assam assembly elections. Very simply, learn from leaders such as Mamata Banerjee and Nitish Kumar, and make concerted outreach …

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2 years, 9 months ago

In Uttar Pradesh, It is Game Yogi, Set BJP, Match Modi

News 18

After eight years and several policy reversals, it seems the Modi electoral magic remains intact. The fact remains that when you come up with policies like giving plumbed toilets and electricity connections to everyone, combined with private sector initiatives like democratisation of data access, you’re essentially touching every single person in a substantial way. Unsurprisingly, the BJP’s vote share it …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Equal rights amendment gets 1st vote in Maine Legislature

Associated Press

— A proposed equal rights amendment in Maine enjoys broad support from Democratic lawmakers and the governor, but it failed Wednesday to obtain a two-thirds majority in its first vote in the House. “This amendment is no longer needed to afford equal opportunity for women,” Rep. Abigail Griffin, R-Levant. Maine ratified the federal Equal Rights Amendment in 1974, but the …

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Palakkad to vote today; 10 candidates in fray

Books: The birth control battle waged during early women's suffrage

Voters with a female governor vote to keep ‘him’ in the state constitution

'We are being protected now': Alina Habba says Trump gave women more rights with justices

Women Vote. They Will Again in 2024.

Meet the conservative women who are keeping their votes for Harris a secret

What Black Male Celebrities Are Saying About Kamala Harris That She Isn’t Saying Herself

Michelle Obama Warns Men Against Voting for Trump: 'A Vote Against Us'

Sops and Schemes: Will Maharashtra's Ladki Bahin Lift the State?

'Don’t think that’s an issue for you': GOP Senate candidate jabs women over 50 on abortion

Trump's flip-flops show 'contempt for voters' as campaign panics: Morning Joe panel

Gambia upholds its ban on female genital cutting. Reversing it would have been a global first

Politicians see women’s issues as ‘afterthought’, suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst’s descendent warns

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Colour-coordinated, theme-based 32 polling booths set up in Srinagar for voters

A family of 96 exercise its franchise

Samyukta Kisan Morcha appeals to farmers to vote against the BJP

Senegal’s women voters could make a miracle happen in presidential election

Abortion and 2024: How pro-choice PAC EMILY's List might actually be helping Republicans.

French Senate approves a bill to make abortion a constitutional right

Strictly’s problem with women is deeper than Shirley Ballas

Kansas Voters Were the First to See the Brutal Reality of Abortion Bans—and Rebuke It

Why more women voted for the BJP in 2022 elections | Analysis

In Uttar Pradesh, It is Game Yogi, Set BJP, Match Modi

Equal rights amendment gets 1st vote in Maine Legislature