women’s rights
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PublishedAugust 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.
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PublishedJune 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.
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PublishedMay 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.
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PublishedFebruary 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.
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PublishedOctober 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.
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PublishedOctober 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.
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PublishedSeptember 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.
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PublishedApril 30, 2021
A hotel for ambitious women and their New York dreams
Immortalized by Sylvia Plath, the Barbizon offered liberation, writes Paulina Bren.
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PublishedApril 22, 2021
Legislators weigh whether to require free tampons and pads in Maine schools
Hoping to ease the burden on students, legislators may mandate free sanitary supplies in bathrooms.
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PublishedFebruary 28, 2021
In India, the complicated truth behind the killing of two teenagers
What Sonia Faleiro learns while investigating the deaths of 'The Good Girls' who are the subject of her new book "reveals as much about the failings of India's law enforcement, media and politics" as about their murder.