UNDERNEWS: Women

2020

Record Number Of Women Elected To House Of Representatives

2019

The road to abortion is paved with bad bus routes
Paying $150,000 for someone else to give birth to your baby
Georgia's anti-abortion law is really bad
Study: Only six countries have full gender equality
Study: Women earn half as much as men
Prior to the fall 2018 elections women made up at least 40% of the members in only two state assemblies. Afterward, five state legislatures had that many women. In 2019, 2,131, or 28.9% of the 7,383 state legislators in the United States are women.

2018

Record number of women run for U.S. House seats
Men named John do better than women named anything
Supreme Court rebuffs state bids to cut Planned Parenthood funds
Study: Women earn half as much as men
Breastfeeding in public is now officially legal in all 50 states.
Sweden toughens definition of rape
Sexual abuse starts early
Best and worst states for women
Women hold tiny role in Hollywood behind the scenes jobs
How voter suppression particularly hurts women
Good article on the complexities of dealing with sexual harassment

2017

STATS

2018

Women in prison punished more than men

Less than 1% of rapes lead to felony convictions. At least 89% of victims face emotional and physical consequences.

Female prison population eight times higher than in 1980

2017

61 percent of adults in the United States support the federal government passing legislation to protect women’s access to abortion and prevent state’s from passing laws meant to restrict that access,

Women pay more for college, then are paid less

Study finds corporations with women at the top do better

Percent of women in work force declines

Harper's - Portion of the world;s female prison population that is incarcerated in the United State: 1/3

Media

FEMINIST ECONOMICS
MS MAGAZINE
WOMEN'S E-NEWS
WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS
SINGLE WOMEN
MS MAGAZINE
WOMEN'S E-NEWS

Groups

FEMINIST ACTIVISM
FEMINIST ECONOMICS
FEMINIST MAJORITY FOUNDATION
INTNL ASSN FOR FEMINIST ECONOMICS
ME TOO
MS FOUNDATION
NARAL
NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR RESEARCH ON WOMEN
NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER
NOW
UN DEVELOPMENT FUND FOR WOMEN

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In November 1990 it devoted an entire issue to the ecologically sound city and how to develop it. The article was republished widely.

Even before Clinton's nomination we exposed Arkansas political scandals that would later become major issues. .

We reported on NSA monitoring of U.S. phone calls in the 1990s, years before it became a major media story.

In 2003 editor Sam Smith wrote an article for Harper's comprised entirely of falsehoods about Iraq by Bush administration officials.

The Review started a web edition in 1995 when there were only 27,000 web sites worldwide. Today there are over 170 million active sites.

In 1987 we ran an article on AIDS. It was the first year that more than 1,000 men died of the disease.

In the 1980s, Thomas S Martin predicted in the Review that "Yugoslavia will eventually break up" and that "a challenge to the centralized soviet state" would occur as a result of devolutionary trends. Both happened.

In the 1970s we published a first person account of a then illegal abortion.

In 1971 we published our first article in support of single payer universal health care

In 1970, we ran a two part series on gay liberation.

in 1965 we called for the end of the draft.

In the 1960s we proposed community policing

ABOUT THE EDITOR

The Review is edited by Sam Smith, who covered Washington under nine presidents, has edited the Progressive Review and its predecessors since 1964, wrote four books, been published in five anthologies, helped to start five organizations (including the DC Humanities Council and the DC Statehood Party), was a plaintiff in three successful class action suits, served as a Coast Guard officer, and played in jazz bands for four decades.

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