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Barbara Rodriguez
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Will pouring money into statehouse races help America reach gender parity?
The Ascend Fund is investing more than half a million dollars into groups that plan to recruit and train women to run for statehouse seats in Michigan, Mississippi and Washington.
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Colorado to expand insurance for gender-affirming care
The state’s new coverage requirements will include facial feminization surgery and breast and chest surgeries — procedures once considered cosmetic, according to a key LGBTQ+ advocacy group.
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Girls are being socialized to lose political ambition — and it starts younger than we realized
New research shows that as girls age, they’re conditioned to lose interest and ambition in politics. The opposite happens for boys.
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Boston will elect someone other than a White man as mayor for the first time
Michelle Wu and Annissa Essaibi George, both women of color, will advance to the two-person general mayoral election set for November 2.
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These two women have potential to play outsized role in Virginia abortion rights
What one lieutenant governor’s race previews about the politics of reproductive health care in next year’s midterm election cycle.
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Miami-Dade mayor Daniella Levine Cava on what the world has to learn from the Surfside condo collapse
Daniella Levine Cava, the mayor of Miami-Dade County in South Florida, talks about the experience of helping the public grieve one of the deadliest structural building failures in history.
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Criminal convictions for abortion, miscarriage? Texas abortion ban previews life without Roe v. Wade
Defense attorneys say there’s a history of criminal convictions over abortion, miscarriage and stillbirth that will only be exacerbated if Roe v. Wade is overturned.
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As abortion ban goes into effect, Texas poised to double down with separate restrictions on abortion-inducing medications
The bill was finalized hours before a law banning nearly all abortions in the state went into effect.
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How one company helped parents get 21 gallons of breast milk back from the Tokyo Olympics
Milk Stork became a key service for staff at the Olympic Games who couldn’t bring their nursing babies to Tokyo. Now, it plans to do the same for the Paralympics.
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Kathy Hochul’s rise in New York spotlights the barriers to women becoming governors
"I want by the end of my administration, for every woman to say there are no barriers, there is no longer a ceiling."