Tag: Gender Issues

Ivanka Trump said that 46 percent of the total U.S. labor force is female and 40 percent of American households have female primary breadwinners, so it is important to help working women. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Ivanka Trump lays out new pro-women policies for father

Ariel Cohen · July 22, 2016 4:11 am

Manafort: Women ‘feel they can’t afford their lives’

Anna Giaritelli · July 22, 2016 12:53 am

Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., said, "There have been so many [events] encouraging women into the political process using the convention, and to encourage women [who are] getting involved in the Trump campaign." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Blackburn: GOP, Trump put new focus on women

Rudy Takala · July 21, 2016 9:08 pm

State Sen. Tim Ashe and party insider Ken Dean were ordered to be replaced by the DNC so that the party could achieve a gender balance. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

DNC replaces two Vermont delegates — because they’re men

Ashe Schow · July 21, 2016 7:56 pm

Tammy Compton restocks tampons at Compton's Market, Wednesday, June 22, 2016, in Sacramento, Calif. A bill to exempt tampons and feminine hygiene products from sales tax co-authored by Assemblywomen Cristina Garcia, D-Bell Gardens and Ling Ling Chang, R-Diamond Bar, was approved by the Senate Governance and Finance committee.

Free tampons for all workers under new Dem bill

Pete Kasperowicz · July 21, 2016 5:11 pm

"You know, over the last 20 years, the biggest war on women has been conducted by Bill Clinton." (Daniel Acker/Bloomberg)

Giuliani rips Bill Clinton, ‘our predator president’

Mariana Barillas · July 21, 2016 3:20 pm

Emily's List is starting a site listing comments Donald Trump has made about women, some of them derogatory. (Screenshot)

‘Women Can Stop Trump’ website launched

Paige Winfield Cunningham · July 19, 2016 6:11 pm

Barbie is running for president on an all-female ticket, Mattel announced Wednesday. (Photo: Mattel)

Barbie running for president

Mariana Barillas · July 13, 2016 6:54 pm

A British town's police force is now considering things like catcalling and pickup lines to be a hate crime if they are directed toward a woman from a man. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Beltway Confidential

County in UK makes it a hate crime to upset women

Ashe Schow · July 13, 2016 4:13 pm

BBC reporter on Clinton: ‘Nothing fresh about her’

Becket Adams · July 12, 2016 6:39 pm

Malala said each birthday, she will go to a region where girls' education is neglected and needs attention. (AP Photo/Khalil Senosi)

Nobel Prize winner spends birthday at world’s largest refugee camp

Kelly Cohen · July 12, 2016 4:15 pm

LGBT groups to air advocacy ad during RNC

Kelly Cohen · July 12, 2016 3:30 pm