Tag: women's rights
Sunday essay: Sex, power and anger — a history of feminist protests in Australia
Picture: NLA/AAP(various)
Rage and roar are two words commonly used to describe the events of Monday 15 March, when tens of thousands joined the March4Justice:...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg helped shape the modern era of women’s rights – even before she went on the Supreme Court
Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg paying a courtesy call on Sen.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, D-N.Y., left, and Sen. Joseph Biden,
D-Del., in June 1993,...
Women may find it tougher to get an abortion if the religious discrimination bill becomes law
Women may need to shop around for a new doctor if the first
one refuses to perform an abortion for religious reasons. from www.shutterstock.com
If...
High Court delivers landmark ruling validating abortion clinic ‘safe access zones’
Supporters of creating safe access zones around abortion
clinics gathered outside NSW Parliament House in Sydney last year. Peter Rae/AAP
The High Court of Australia...
Hidden women of history: Théroigne de Méricourt, feminist revolutionary
Théroigne de Mericourt, engraving after a painting by
Auguste Raffet in 1817. Wikimedia Commons
Anne-Josèphe Théroigne or Terwagne (1762–1817) was born at Marcourt, a village...