Tag: women
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Are taxis safer with no driver? These women think so.
Autonomous taxis are winning over women in cities like San Francisco by offering an answer to a long-standing concern about ride-hailing apps: misbehavior by human drivers, especially men. Some women said in interviews that they’ve mostly stopped using Uber and Lyft, the two most popular ride-hailing apps, and have switched instead to a driverless competitor,…
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Senate candidate Tim Sheehy says women ‘indoctrinated’ on abortion
Montana Senate candidate Tim Sheehy, who is locked in a highly consequential race with Democratic incumbent Jon Tester, said in newly unearthed audio that the Republican Party needs to do a better job at winning over young women, who he said have been “indoctrinated” for years on the issue of abortion. “Young people, listen up,…
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Olivia Rodrigo donates all sales from historic Manila show to group that helps women and girls
Olivia Rodrigo, who’s currently on her GUTS World Tour, capped off a memorable stop in the Philippines with another major announcement. The 21-year-old singer, whose father is Filipino, shared on social media after her Saturday show in Manila that the profits from her ticket sales there would be donated to nonprofit Jhpiego. The global organization,…
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More Black and Latina women are leading unions — and transforming how they work
Women make up roughly half of U.S. labor union membership, but representation in top level union leadership positions has lagged, even in female-dominated industries and particularly for women of color. But Black and Latina women are starting to gain ground, landing top positions at some of the biggest unions in the U.S. That has translated…
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Breast cancer rising among younger women and Asian Americans, report finds
Americans have benefited from huge leaps in breast cancer treatment over the last two decades, but diagnoses are becoming more common, especially among younger women, according to a report published Tuesday by the American Cancer Society. The new report shows that breast cancer mortality has decreased by 44% since the late 1980s. Rates of breast…
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Louisiana’s new abortion pill law may delay lifesaving care for women, doctors say
Starting Tuesday in Louisiana, the two drugs used in medication abortion — mifepristone and misoprostol — will be reclassified as controlled substances in the state, making it a crime punishable by up to five years in prison to possess the drugs without a prescription. The law, the first of its kind in the nation, will…
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Harris says Trump needs to trust women to make their own reproductive decisions
WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday criticized former President Donald Trump’s recent comments about reproductive rights, saying he needs to trust women to make their own decisions. “I don’t think the women of America need him to say he’s going to protect them,” Harris said during an interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, referring…
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Elise Stefanik pushes to expand House GOP majority with record number of women
Rep. Elise Stefanik, the highest-ranking GOP woman in the House, is leading a charge to break the record for Republican women serving in the chamber, just six years after a blue wave wiped out their ranks. Stefanik, R-N.Y., who chairs the GOP conference, has been focused on boosting the ranks of Republican women in the…
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Kamala Harris campaign seizes on suburban women as key in North Carolina strategy
When Vice President Kamala Harris took the reins of the Democratic nomination in late July, something happened in North Carolina. Volunteers started pouring in by the thousands. Of the more than 23,500 people who stepped forward, 94% of them had never done so before, according to the campaign. In the week after President Joe Biden…
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Former CIA officer jailed for 30 years for drugging and sexually assaulting women
A former CIA officer was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for drugging and sexually abusing and filming multiple women without their consent, in one of the most serious misconduct cases in the agency’s history. Brian Jeffrey Raymond, 48, from La Mesa, California, photographed and filmed 28 women while they were unconscious or unable…