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Every 90 seconds, one woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth. Most of these deaths are preventable, but due to gender-based discrimination many women are not given the proper education or care they need.
Reports show that violence against women increases during pregnancy.
Women make up 80 percent of all refugees and displaced people. Instruments of genocide such as sexual violence and rape are often directed at women and girls.
Women are largely excluded from formal peace processes. Only 1 in 13 participants of peace negotiations since 1992 were women.
Women gained the right to vote in America less than 100 years ago in 1920..
Women make up more than 50 percent of the global population, but fill less than 20 percent of all parliamentary seats.
More than 16.4 million women in the world have HIV/AIDS. In some regions, girls are HIV-positive at a rate 5 times that of boys.
The majority of persons smuggled illegally across country borders are women. Many of them are kidnapped or sold by their own families into the sex industry.
Women account for 70 percent of the population living in absolute poverty (on less than $1.00 a day).
80 percent of victims of hand-held weapons in war are women.
Girls are actually less likely to reach adulthood because of gender discrimination. Tens of millions of girls have been aborted, killed, undernourished, or terribly neglected due to their gender.
The Female Body
The Female Body by Margaret Atwood
Beautiful mental snapshots, stunningly crafted by a master essayist
Pieces of You by Walter Kirn
The hottest girl in the room isn't necessarily who you think
A Few Words about Breasts by Nora Ephron
I was boyish. I wanted desperately not to be that way, not to be a mixture of both things, but instead just one, a girl. As soft and as pink as a nursery. And nothing would do that for me, I felt, but breasts.
A Thin Line between Mother and Daughter
by Jennifer Egan
How attitudes to the body are passed down through generations
Hello, I Am Fat by Lindy West
This is my body. It is MINE. I am not ashamed of it in any way. In fact, I love everything about it. Men find it attractive. Clothes look awesome on it. My brain rides around in it all day and comes up with funny jokes.
Autobiography of a Body by Lucy Grealy
A great piece of memoir exploring the development of the author's troubled sexuality
California or Bust by Amy Wallace
The perfectly rounded breast is to L.A. what big hair is to Dallas. More than palm trees or surfboards or stars on Hollywood Boulevard, the breast has become this city’s icon.
Vaginas, Wombs and Menstruation
The Sanguine Sex by Caitlin Flanagan
Abortion and the bloodiness of being female
John Rock's Error by Malcolm Gladwell
How the fallacy of a natural monthly cycle was used to help the contraceptive pill find acceptance, but may endanger women's health.
In the Red Tent by Lindy West
Find out what goes on at a menstruation celebration
I Don't Care About Your Stupid Vulva, It's All Vagina to Me by Lindy West
If one more person e-mails to tell me the difference between a vagina and a vulva I'm going to start calling both of them "inside-out-dong-sock."
Snip, stitch, kerching! by Marie Myung-Ok Lee
Designer vagina surgeries and the questionable motives of the doctors who perform them.
We Do Abortions Here by Sallie Tisdale
A nurse at an abortion clinic describes her work
Gynocide by Barbara Ehrenreich
The U.S. maintains a systematic and intentional double standard for the sale of contraceptives. (Written in 1977.)
The New Full-Frontal by Ashley Fetters
Has Pubic Hair in America Gone Extinct?
Women at Work
Trickle-Down Feminism by Sarah Jaffe
While we all worry about the glass ceiling, there are millions of women standing in the basement—and the basement is flooding
The Invisible Barriers to Women in Science
by Meghan Sullivan
We are basically dipping deeper into the talent pool of men instead of finding the outstanding women that are out there…if we hire a smaller fraction of women as professors than there are women with PhDs we have basically thrown away talent
How to Shake Hands with a Woman by Lindy West
What's next—dogs on their hind legs wearing pith helmets and taking all the best gentleman explorer jobs!?
She Can’t Sleep No More by Sarah Leonard
The political economy of Marissa Mayer
Feminism
The Women's Movement by Joan Didion
The half-truths, repeated, authenticated themselves. The bitter fancies assumed their own logic.
What No One Else Will Tell You About Feminism by Lindy West
Guess what? You're a feminist.
Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
If I am, indeed, a feminist, I am a rather bad one.
As Many Pairs of Shoes as She Likes by Jenny Turner
So long as she works hard and doesn’t throw bricks or ask awkward questions, she can have as many qualifications and abortions and pairs of shoes as she likes.
Rhymes With Rich by Sandra Tsing Loh
More and more these days, reading women’s writing fills me with a vague, creeping, slightly nauseating feeling, because problems of affluence have been recast as the struggles of feminism.
Why is India so Bad for Women? by Helen Pidd
Of all the G20 nations, India has been labelled the worst place to be a woman.
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