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The Indian Ban on Commercial Surrogacy

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 6003 Views 0 Comments India, ivf, surrogacy

  Introduction The usage of assisted reproductive technology (ART) has grown immensely around the world, and future increases are expected.[i]

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It’s Time for a U.S. Feminist Foreign Policy

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 1563 Views 1 Comment feminism, foreign policy, pandemic, United States

  Women leaders around the world are being disproportionately recognized for their skilled responses to the coronavirus crisis. These women

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COVID-19: Making Visible the Invisible Survivor

June 2, 2020 976 Views 0 Comments crisis response, domestic violence, mental health, pandemic, public health

  The COVID-19 pandemic has left more than half of humanity confined to their homes. Governments have asked and, in

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Solitary Confinement is Torture, Not Protection

March 5, 2020 659 Views 0 Comments asylum, Central America, criminal justice, LGBTQ+, mental health, Mexico, migrants

  Ellie,[1] a young trans woman from Central America, sits across a small table from me in blue men’s scrubs,

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Toward an LGBTQ+ Inclusive History Curriculum in Massachusetts

February 12, 2020 1040 Views 0 Comments education, LGBTQ+, mental health, representation

  In my senior year of high school, I spent months gathering everything I could find on LGBTQ+ history for

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The Invisible Work of Girls: Inside the Life of Female Child Labor in Ghana

January 21, 2020January 20, 2020 1990 Views 0 Comments Africa, child labor, Ghana

  *The names of the subjects in this article have been changed to protect their identity. A heavy stench of

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Fetal Heartbeat Bills Protect No One

November 13, 2019 935 Views 0 Comments abortion, heartbeat bills, mental health, motherhood

  Katya* was on her fifth pregnancy and still without a child. When I met her this summer on the

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Reprogramming the Patriarchy: Combatting Gender Bias in Machine Learning

August 23, 2019November 21, 2019 1067 Views 0 Comments representation, social media, technology

  The media narrative on artificial intelligence (AI) is not far removed from the plot of a science-fiction movie: robots

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Underpaid and Imprisoned: How the Gender Wage Gap Disproportionately Hurts Incarcerated Women

August 23, 2019 981 Views 0 Comments criminal justice, equal pay

  Early in my career, while working as a legislative aide in Washington, D.C., a male colleague and I received

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Building America’s Backbench: Electing Women to the State House

August 23, 2019October 7, 2019 761 Views 0 Comments Congress, local government, pipeline, representation

The 2016 elections dealt a crushing blow to women. But in its wake, a new urgency and optimism emerged. After

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