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Congress Short title Long title Bill number(s) Date introduced Sponsor # of co-sponsors Latest status 118th Congress (2023–2025) Protecting Women's Private Spaces Act To prohibit individuals from accessing or using single-sex facilities on Federal property other than those corresponding to their biological sex, and for other purposes. H.R.10186
More than 400 LGBTQ and civil rights groups on Monday urged lawmakers to reject legislation that would bar transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports, claiming the measure, which the ...
In the US, only 25% of men between the ages of 18 and 29 identify as politically liberal, while 40% of women in the same age group do, according to a recent Gallup poll.
The Republican Party advocated for equal rights for women, while Democrats tended to lean toward protective legislation that would shield women from social and economic competition. [9] During the 1960s, the parties began to converge on their views of women's issues, and there was a general consensus that women should have legal equality. [9]
The resolution, "Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to equal rights for men and women", reads, in part: [1] Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled (two-thirds of each House concurring therein), That the following article is proposed as an amendment to the Constitution of the United States ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A bill to safeguard access to contraceptives failed to advance in a U.S. Senate vote on Wednesday, after congressional Democrats forced the vote in a bid to focus public ...
Civil Rights Acts have been part of the Constitution of the United States of America, but in order to be received equally by all the population required to made amendments to the United States Constitution, this allowed to end of slavery with the Civil Rights Act of 1866, followed by women's suffrage, among other rights.
Texas: The Marital Property Act of 1967, which gave married women the same property rights as their husbands, goes into effect on January 1. [110] Mississippi: On June 15 a law making women eligible to serve on state court juries is signed by Governor John Bell Williams. Mississippi was the last state in America to allow this. [111]