women’s rights

Published
March 23, 2023

Jill Biden calls on men to step up for women’s rights

First lady Jill Biden didn't mince words as she lamented that women find themselves relitigating 'battles that we thought we had won a long time ago.'
Published
February 6, 2023

Some Florida high school athletes leery of being made to reveal menstrual cycles

The proposal, which is to be considered by the state's athletic association, has ignited a political furor at a time when the overturning of Roe v. Wade has moved women’s reproductive rights and bodily autonomy to the center of debate.
Published
August 25, 2022

Suffrage plaque for Isabel Greenwood unveiled in Farmington

Isabel's plaque is a part of National Votes for Women Trail, which honors suffragists who worked to get women the right to vote with historical markers across America.
Published
August 20, 2022

Commentary: Companies, Congress should step up to support breastfeeding moms

For Black women like me, the rates of breastfeeding initiation and duration still lag those of our counterparts.
Published
June 24, 2022

Young people in Portland express fear, dismay over Roe ruling

For their entire lives, the right to an abortion has been federally protected. Now they face a world in which the procedure will become illegal in many states.
Published
May 8, 2022

The rebels who made the skies a lot friendlier for flight attendants

In the 1960s and 1970s, stewardesses organized to fight sexism and transformed the airline industry, Nell McShane Wulfhart writes.
Published
February 16, 2022

Equal rights amendment to Maine Constitution hits Republican opposition in House

The 80-57 vote in favor of the proposal falls short of the two-thirds majority required to put the issue to voters, with another vote coming later in this session.
Published
October 10, 2021

Maine philanthropist’s resignation shakes global reproductive rights charity founded by her father

Judy Kahrl of Arrowsic, an heir to the Procter & Gamble fortune, resigned from the board of Pathfinder International, accusing it of resisting full disclosure of her father’s eugenicist legacy and the CEO’s management record.
Published
October 2, 2021

Women stand against Texas abortion law in Belgrade, Waterville

Participants at central Maine events, and hundreds of other events across the country, demonstrate for women's reproductive rights.
Published
September 20, 2021

Cancer screenings in jeopardy after New Hampshire denies funding for women’s clinics

The Republican-majority Executive Council decided against extending contracts to Planned Parenthood and two other family planning services that also provide abortions, even though no public money funds abortions in the state.