U.S. patriarchal authoritarianism is on the rise, and democracy is on the decline. However day after day, we keep vigilant in our objectives to dismantle patriarchy at each flip. The struggle is much from over. We’re watching, and we refuse to return. That is the Warfare on Girls Report.
Since our final report…
+ Trump signaled intentions for an aggressive agenda if he wins the 2024 presidential election. He has:
- hinted that the navy could have a bigger presence within the U.S., although plans are unspecified.
- steered widespread deportations.
- proposed imposing journey bans on international locations with Muslim-majority populations.
+ Abortion rights advocates received main victories in Ohio, Virginia and Kentucky. These current polls present that help for abortion rights is rising in reputation throughout get together strains, even exceeding Biden’s 2020 vote share in crimson and blue counties. Veronica Ingham, the marketing campaign supervisor of Ohioans For Reproductive Freedom, advised reporters, “Voters final night time made it clear that this isn’t a partisan challenge.”
+ Regardless of vowing to middle local weather change motion all through his time period, President Biden has opted to not take part in COP 28, the outstanding annual international local weather convention. Whereas no motive was given for his absence, indications counsel that the Israel-Gaza conflict and his reelection marketing campaign are commanding his consideration.
+ Latest information means that amongst all states, West Virginia has the best price of office sexual harassment adopted by Kansas, Missouri and Alabama. Regardless of this, West Virginia has skilled an 82 % lower in filed fees since final yr.
Let’s not overlook what else was thrown our manner final month.
Wednesday, Nov. 1
+ New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy closed a part of the state’s solely ladies’s jail, Edna Mahan Correctional Facility, after claims of sexual abuse and misconduct. The choice to shut the 110-year-old facility was made in June 2021. The ability is dealing with a half dozen lawsuits, a number of legislative hearings and media investigations for claims of sexual and bodily violence, and a federal civil rights inquiry, through which the Division of Justice decided that officers groped prisoners throughout searches, known as them slurs, and pressured them into sexual conditions. Amongst their findings, they noticed that digital camera protection was inconsistent all through the power, and even nonexistent in some areas. Certainly one of these areas was the storage room, the place they discovered a mattress on the ground, indicating sexual violence in non-surveiled areas.
All 176 ladies within the closed a part of the power have been relocated briefly. The state is planning the development of a brand new ladies’s jail.
Thursday, Nov. 2
+ The U.S. Division of Labor launched pattern employment agreements designed for home staff corresponding to nannies, home cleaners and home-care staff. Whereas home staff don’t want to make use of these agreements, they’re obtainable as a device to assist staff and employers set up a transparent understanding of working situations. The discharge of those paperwork is a part of Biden’s govt order to enhance compensation for care staff, help household caregivers and increase inexpensive care choices.
Tuesday, Nov. 7
+ Ohio voters handed Challenge 1, a constitutional modification to guard abortion and reproductive rights inside the state. The modification was crafted by quite a few reproductive rights advocacy teams, together with Ohio Physicians for Reproductive Freedom and Ohioans for Reproductive Freedom, and codified entry to abortion, contraception, fertility remedy, miscarriage care, and people’ proper to proceed their very own being pregnant.
“At present, Ohioans made it clear, abortion is a successful challenge, and collectively we are able to do something,” mentioned Lauren Blauvelt, co-chair of the Ohioans United for Reproductive Rights and govt director of Deliberate Parenthood Advocates of Ohio.
Monday, Nov. 13
+ Jill Biden introduced a new White Home Initiative on Girls’s Well being Analysis. Girls’s well being care has constantly been underfunded for many years, and solely 10.8 % of the Nationwide Institute of Well being’s funding is spent on ladies’s well being. The initiative goals to handle this by focusing on analysis gaps associated to situations which might be particular to ladies, predominantly have an effect on ladies, or have an effect on ladies in another way.
The initiative may also embody analysis on reproductive and post-reproductive healthcare. “Each girl can be affected by menopause,” Biden mentioned, “and but, there’s a shocking ignorance about find out how to handle and deal with its signs, which may be debilitating”
“It’s an enormous day for each girl on this nation, regardless of her age, her political affiliation, her non secular identification or ethnicity. This can be a historic second for ladies and their households and their healthcare suppliers,” mentioned Maria Shriver, an actor and girls’s healthcare advocate.
Wednesday, Nov. 15
+ Energy to Determine launched their eleventh annual #ThxBirthControl Survey information, showcasing the attitudes and behaviors in direction of abortion healthcare of over 1,000 ladies between the ages of 15 and 29. Among the many findings:
- 94.4 % agree or strongly agree on the significance of utilizing contraception throughout intercourse to forestall being pregnant.
- 83 % of respondents have used contraception throughout their lifetime.
- Whereas 86 % of respondents desire contraception data from their healthcare suppliers, lower than 47 % acquired it prior to now yr.
- 74 % of respondents consider that the advantages of contraception outweigh the unintended effects.
- 34.5 % of the respondents haven’t been knowledgeable about contraception prior to now yr.
- 28 % categorical disagreement or sturdy disagreement that hormonal contraception is protected.
- 25 % of respondents acquired contraception data from social media within the final yr.
- 24 % of respondents really feel they lack satisfactory data to pick out the most effective contraception technique for themselves.
Monday, Nov. 20
+ Trump-appointed judges on the federal appeals courtroom dominated that solely the federal authorities—now not people and teams—can sue below Part 2 of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Part 2 bars voting practices that present discrimination primarily based on race, colour, or belonging to specified language minority teams decided within the act. A overwhelming majority of Part 2 lawsuits are introduced by teams and people, enjoying an important position in safeguarding the appropriate to vote.
This case emerged as a result of a scarcity of express language within the act specifying the appropriate for teams and people to sue, resulting in the ruling arguing that the appropriate doesn’t exist. This ruling applies to Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota. It’s prone to be challenged by the U.S. Supreme Court docket, a physique that has notably restricted the authority of the regulation prior to now decade.
Tuesday, Nov. 21
+ Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed into regulation the Reproductive Well being Act. Regardless of setbacks, this regulation makes progress in Michigan’s reproductive coverage. It repeals a state regulation that banned increased training establishments from offering referrals to abortion companies, in addition to a regulation criminalizing healthcare professionals who prescribe abortion treatment.
The transfer was met with blended reactions, significantly from abortion activists. This regulation sought to enhance reproductive rights state-wide, but it surely was considerably “watered down” as a result of Home Democrats didn’t have the help obligatory with out the removing of crucial clauses. That is largely as a result of Rep. Karen Whitsett, who adamantly disagreed with the proposed ban on the 24-hour abortion ready interval. The Home stripped this clause, together with key provisions for Medicaid funding for abortion care.
Saturday, Nov. 25
+ U.N. Girls commemorated Worldwide Day for the Elimination of Violence Towards Girls by launching the marketing campaign UNiTE: Make investments to Forestall Violence Towards Girls and Ladies. Within the U.S., one in 4 ladies have been victims of extreme bodily violence by an intimate accomplice of their lifetime. UNiTE goals to mobilize all member states to extend funding for gender-based violence prevention, together with larger help of care companies, prevention applications, and autonomous ladies’s rights organizations. The marketing campaign additionally goals to boost consciousness about gender-based violence by inviting the general public to share their ideas and activist efforts associated to the subject below the hashtag #NoExcuse.
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