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Explore the first two parts of our Feminist 250 project—uncovering the history we weren't taught about our nation's founding, and the continual struggle for democracy:
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What can we learn from our past, as feminists?
The second part of our FEMINIST 250 project explores what each decade of modern feminist history can teach us about power, democracy, backlash and social change. 🧵
In a major ruling for transgender rights, a divided appeals court concluded that the administration’s military policy was driven by “animus-filled reasons” rather than legitimate military concerns.
The American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists (ACOG) has released its own recommended vaccine schedule for pregnant individuals.
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From Anita Hill to the "Year of the Woman," the 1990s showed women's power to transform representation into lasting policy change.
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From the Affordable Care Act to #MeToo and the Women’s March, the 2010s proved that backlash can spark movements powerful enough to reshape politics, culture and the fight for equality.
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“Who would have thought that today we need Ms. more than we ever needed it before?” Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee wrote in a letter included in the Summer 2022 issue.
“Who would have believed that the 50th anniversary of Ms. would find us in a fight for our bodies, our lives, and our dignity?”
In the July 1972 issue of Ms., cofounder Gloria Steinem predicted that women were “just beginning to flex our muscles and figure out what kind of political force we might be.”
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“If women, married and unmarried, come out in full force on Election Day, they will realize that their collective political strength means that one woman—one vote—actually wields enormous power," Ellen Hawkes wrote about the gender gap in Ms.’ Fall 2004 issue.
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As conservatives mobilized to roll back feminist gains, the women’s movement spent the 1980s fighting backlash, defending hard-won rights and laying the groundwork for future victories.
More lessons from the 1980s:
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As the U.S. approaches its 250th anniversary, FEMINIST 250 uncovers the history we weren't taught: the generations of feminists who expanded rights, reshaped institutions and made democracy more inclu...
The rights women enjoy today were never inevitable. Feminist Lessons revisits every decade of the modern women’s movement to uncover the victories, setbacks and lessons that can help guide the fights ...
The 2010s began with a burst of feminist victories that seemed to signal a new era.
Barack Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, appointed Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan to the Supreme Cou...
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held on a 2-1 vote last week that unconstitutional “animus-filled reasons” motivated the Trump administration’s policy barring transgender people from…
The decade opened amid a pandemic, economic upheaval and a reckoning over democracy itself.
In early 2020, Virginia became the 38th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment, seemingly bringing a n...
The 1980s opened with a sense of uncertainty for feminists. Just years after the Supreme Court's <em>Roe v. Wade</em> decision, the passage of Title IX and the near-ratification of the Equal Rights Am...
In 1972, when <em>Ms.</em> first hit newsstands, abortion was illegal in most of the country. Women could be denied credit cards, mortgages and loans without a husband’s signature. Newspapers still se...
The 1990s began with feminists determined not to surrender the ground they had fought for in the Reagan era—and almost immediately, the stakes became impossible to ignore.
In October 1991, millions ...
In every issue of <em>Ms.</em>, we track research on our progress in the fight for equality, catalogue can’t-miss quotes from feminist voices and keep tabs on the feminist movement’s many milestones. ...
The 2000s opened with a contradiction: Feminist ideas had never been more popular—polls found that overwhelming majorities of women and substantial majorities of men agreed with the basic definition o...
