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President Joe Biden announces Julie Su as his nominee to be the next secretary of labor during an event in the East Room of the White House on March 1, 2023. Su will replace the current Secretary of Labor, Marty Walsh. (Win McNamee / Getty Images)

BY AIMEE ALLISON | President Biden recently announced his nomination of Julie Su to be the next secretary of the Department of Labor. She has spent her career fighting for equity and inclusion in the workforce.

Women across the country are thrilled that President Biden has taken the critical first step in nominating Julie Su — now we need to keep the pressure on the Senate to confirm her.

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Mifepristone (right) and Misoprostol (left), the two drugs used in a medication abortion. (Robyn Beck / AFP via Getty Images)

BY CARRIE N. BAKER | While media headlines across the country declare a Texas judge has the power to ban the abortion pills nationwide, three leading legal experts say he in fact does not have that power.

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Protesters at an abortion-rights rally on June 25, 2022, in Austin, Texas, after the Supreme Court’s overturned the landmark 50-year-old Roe v. Wade case and erased a federal right to an abortion. (Sergio Flores / Getty Images)

BY SHEFALI LUTHRA | Funds have halted abortion-related work since June, when Roe v. Wade was overturned. Resuming that work could affect hundreds of pregnant people in Texas, which is the largest state to ban abortion.

An Austin-based federal judge last month temporarily blocked Texas prosecutors from pursuing legal action against organizations that help people secure abortions in states where it is legal. The ruling offers a rare spot of relief for abortion rights proponents in Texas and comes as state lawmakers are increasingly targeting organizations that help people leave the state for an abortion. 

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In this episode, we’re thinking about the many ways in which girls and women in the U.S. are denied, passed over, and even cheated of opportunities they have earned. But, women can and do fight back—often by overachieving. How do we move ahead in light of social, political and other forces that hold women, girls, and those of other marginalized backgrounds back?

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