women’s rights
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PublishedDecember 3, 2024
Sen. Collins makes BBC’s 2024 ‘100 Women’ list
She is 1 of 7 American women to make the list, which includes artists, astronauts and activists.
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PublishedSeptember 15, 2024
Taliban begins enforcing new draconian laws, and Afghan women despair
The new religious code issued late last month bans women from raising their voices, reciting the Quran in public, and looking at men other than their husbands or relatives.
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PublishedAugust 16, 2024
From Augusta: Honoring Maine’s suffragettes and voting rights
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PublishedApril 12, 2024
Portrait of nation’s first female Supreme Court justice, saved from trash, to hang in Augusta courthouse
An oil painting of the late Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, found 10 years ago in a pile at the Yarmouth Transfer Station, has been turned over to the state's court system.
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PublishedApril 1, 2024
Health care advocates seek $3.4 million in Maine state funding for reproductive health
The funding, if approved, would not pay for abortions but would cover other reproductive and primary care at 61 health centers across the state.
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PublishedMarch 31, 2024
Plucky 18th-century midwife Martha Ballard is entangled in a brutal rape case
In 'Frozen River,' Ariel Lawhon spins a propulsive historical thriller from a few basic real-life facts. 'It's a fast read, but some of the ideas that drive it are troubling.
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PublishedMarch 17, 2024
Opinion: Workplace inequality should be consigned to the past
Not enough has been made of three federal laws that provide historic protection to women in the workplace.
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PublishedOctober 24, 2023
Women across Iceland, including prime minister, go on strike for equal pay and no more violence
The island nation just below the Arctic Circle has been ranked as the world’s most gender-equal country 14 years in a row by the World Economic Forum.
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PublishedJune 21, 2023
Equal Rights Amendment champion comes up short in final effort as Maine lawmaker
Rep. Lois Galgay Reckitt has advocated for the Equal Rights Amendment for five decades, first at the national level and later in Maine.
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PublishedJune 20, 2023
Vatican document calls for Catholic Church to promote women, include LGBTQ+ community
The Vatican on Tuesday released the synthesis of a two-year consultation process, publishing a working document that will form the basis of discussion for a big meeting of bishops and laypeople in October.
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