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Feminism

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Jul 2005Number of national parliaments that have a greater percentage of female members than the U.S. Congress: 71
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Inter-Parliamentary Union (Geneva)

Feb 2005Year by which the median full-time wage of a U.S. woman will equal that of a U.S. man, based on current trends: 2050
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Institute for Women's Policy Research (Washington)

Jul 2004Number of publications on women's rights that the Labor Department has removed from its website since 1999 : 25
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The National Council for Research on Women (N.Y.C.)

Sep 2003 Number of females on the American Film Institute's list of the fifty greatest movie villains, aliens included: 15
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American Film Institute (Los Angeles)

May 1999Chance that a mother of dependent children depicted on a prime-time network TV show holds a paying job: 1 in 3
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National Partnership for Women &Families (Washington)

May 1999Chance that a black woman living in the U.S. will be a victim of violence this year: 1 in 18
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Bureau of Justice Statistics (Washington)

Apr 1998Ratio of the average volume of a breast implant inserted in the U.S. to that of one inserted in Europe: 3:2
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Mentor Medical Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.)

August 1, 2006The Food and Drug Administration almost approved over-the-counter sales of the oral contraceptive Plan B.
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NY Times

May 16, 2006King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia asked newspapers to refrain from publishing pictures of women.
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AP via MyWay.com

March 8, 2006In rural Nepal fathers were being paid in piglets if they agreed not to sell their daughters into servitude.
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The Christian Science Monitor

February 5, 2006 Betty Friedan died.
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The Washington Post

June 22, 2005The president and CEO of Formula One racing, discussing racer Danica Patrick, said that “women should be dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.”
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ESPN

June 2, 2005 Saudi Arabia was considering whether women should be allowed to drive.
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ABC News

April 11, 2005 Andrea Dworkin died.
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The Guardian

April 10, 2005Many conservative American pharmacists were refusing to dispense birth control.
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BBC News

July 31, 2004The Vatican criticized feminists for trying to ignore the differences between men and women and said that a woman "is not a copy of a man."
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Associated Press

July 22, 2003A mayor in southern Spain banned men from going out on Thursday nights; the mayor, who will deploy brigades of women to patrol the streets and issue fines to errant males, proclaimed that "in future, Thursday will be a day for women."
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Ananova

January 15, 2002 Lithuania's “gender ombudswoman” ruled that a regulation mandating that women receive a gynecological exam before they receive a driver's license was discriminatory.
January 15, 2002 Brazil gave women equal rights.

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