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**Today at Ms. | April 1, 2022**

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Taliban Reverses Pledge and Keeps Girls’ Schools Closed: ‘Why Are They Playing With Our Future?’

Students and a teacher at the Female Experimental High School in Herat. (World Bank Photo Collection / Flickr)

BY FMF STAFF | Despite much anticipation, the Taliban regime announced today that girls’ schools from grades 7-12 will remain closed. Devastated teachers and students did not know about the announcement until they arrived at their schools had to return home.

In speaking with the BBC, one in Kabul student said, “I feel really hopeless for my future. I don’t see a bright future for myself. All we want is to go to school.”

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Misogyny’s Gatekeeping Role at Judge Jackson’s Supreme Court Nomination Hearings

BY BONNIE STABILE | The historic hearings held last week for the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court made plain the virulent misogyny leveled at women—especially women of color, and Black women in particular—who dare aspire to positions of power in the public sphere.

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Weekend Reading on Women’s Representation: More Women Hold Office in Larger Cities; Countries Where Women’s Leadership is the Norm

BY CYNTHIA RICHIE TERRELL | Weekend Reading for Women’s Representation is a compilation of stories about women’s representation.

This week: Women’s representation has increased in cities with populations of 10,000 or more; women remain underrepresented in Congress; how key stakeholders can increase women’s representation; the countries where women’s leadership has become the norm; and more.

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