It was a rough year for women’s rights...but not all was lost—and sometimes feminist won.
It was a rough year for women’s rights. The Trump administration and many state legislatures have been furiously rolling back hard-won protections—including reproductive rights, the right to be free from gender-based violence and the right to equal employment opportunities.
Mitch McConnell is blocking all these important laws in the Senate. So women are turning to the states to protect and expand their rights.elected to state legislatures in 2019, increasing from 1,879 in 2018 to 2,112 in 2019 and raising the proportion of seats in state legislatures held by women from 25.4 to 28.6 percent. For the first time in history, a state legislature has reached parity in women’s representation—Nevada with women holding 50.8 percent of seats.
“Progress has been made in a climate of backlash in the U.S.,” says Katherine Spillar, executive director of the Feminist Majority Foundation and executive editor ofmagazine. “Without equal decision making power or equal access to resources, women persist in making progress despite entrenched patriarchies.”
Advocates have used the Trump administration’s evisceration of federal civil rights protections to push women’s issues to the forefront of states legislative agendas. Below, we’ll look back at the progress they’ve made.Democrats won both houses in the Virginia state legislature, which sets the state up to become the
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