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Today at Ms. | August 30, 2024 |
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By Jodi Enda | Ever since the Supreme Court overturned Roe two years ago, the battle to restore abortion rights has been front and center, particularly this election year. Less visible are efforts to enshrine women’s equality into the Constitution, the continuation of a campaign that conservatives thought they killed more than 40 years ago.
Not true. Champions of the ERA have been working tirelessly to get Congress to publish the 101-year-old measure that would ban gender-based discrimination. The requisite 38 states have ratified the amendment, albeit three of them after an arbitrary and, advocates insist, alterable deadline of 1982.
Although women have made considerable strides in the intervening years, a constitutional right is the only guarantee they will make further gains and keep them in perpetuity, advocates say. And, they add, the need to add women to the Constitution endures.
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The College Hall, New College of Florida. (Wikimedia Commons) |
By Carrie N. Baker | On Jan. 6, 2023, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis orchestrated a rightwing takeover of New College of Florida in Sarasota, the state’s only public liberal honors arts college. DeSantis appointed six new members to the college’s board of trustees who promptly voted to eliminate the diversity, equity and inclusion office and the gender studies program.
On August 15, administration at New College of Florida in Sarasota destroyed hundreds of books that had been housed in the Gender and Diversity Center on campus, placing them in a huge dumpster for disposal.
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Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris greets a young girl who wears a button that reads “Decency 2024” during a campaign rally on Aug. 6, 2024, in Philadelphia. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images) |
By Maheen Kaleem | For centuries, girls and gender-expansive youth have been engaging in democracy through their communities, developing social contracts and mobilizing for civic engagement.
Despite their crucial role, they remain undervalued and underfunded. Grantmakers for Girls of Color (G4GC) is working to change this by mobilizing resources for youth-led organizations across the United States. Investing in these young leaders and their initiatives will foster a more equitable and just democracy.
“Just because we can’t vote yet doesn’t mean we don’t care!”
(This essay is part of a Women & Democracy package focused on who’s funding the women and LGBTQ people on the frontlines of democracy. We’re manifesting a new era for philanthropy—one that centers feminism. The need is real: Funding for women and girls amounts to less than 2 percent of all philanthropic giving; for women of color, it’s less than 1 percent. Explore the “Feminist Philanthropy Is Essential to Democracy” collection.)
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