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Profile of Jameelah Medina (05/15/2008)

Q & A: The Practice of Hijab (04/16/2008)
In an interview with Selene Kaye, of the ACLU Women's Rights Project, Ms. Medina talks about the practice of wearing hijab and her experience in jail.

Facts about the Over-Incarceration of Women in the United States (12/12/2007)

Plaintiff Profiles in Jones v. Hayman (12/12/2007)

FAQs: The ACLU Women's Rights Project and Women's History Month (02/26/2007)
Frequently asked questions about the ACLU's Women's Rights Project and Women's History Month

Comprehensive List of Women's Rights Resources (02/23/2007)

Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Ira Glasser Racial Justice Fellow (02/23/2007)
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw has been an Ira Glasser Racial Justice Fellow at the ACLU since February 2005; working primarily at the National Office. Crenshaw is a professor of law at Columbia and UCLA Law Schools. The groundbreaking work for which she is best known explores the many ways in which various forms of discriminations can intersect, creating special vulnerabilities for some that are not readily identifiable within traditional equality law. She coined the term "intersectionality" to highlight the overlapping vulnerabilities that are at play in shaping the life chances of some of society's most vulnerable populations: women who are poor, of color, or who are undocumented.

Women Who Put Women's Rights on the ACLU Agenda (03/01/2006)
Learn about how the ACLU Women's Rights Project began and the people involved in starting it.

Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation Policy on Swimwear at Aquatic Facilities (01/10/2006)
Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation Commission policy on swimwear providing for religious accommodation. The policy was adopted on January 10, 2006 in response to the ACLU of Michigan's advocacy on behalf of a Muslim seventh-grade student who was denied swimming privileges at the Rolling Hills Water Park in Ypsilanti, MI in 2005 because she was wearing clothing covering her body in accordance with her religious beliefs.

Letter to Robert Tetens, Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation Director (10/25/2005)
Letter from the ACLU of Michigan to the Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation Director on behalf of a Muslim seventh-grade student who was denied swimming privileges at the Rolling Hills Water Park in Ypsilanti, MI because she was wearing clothing covering her body in accordance with her religious beliefs.

Settlement Reached in Michigan Housing Discrimination Case (09/07/2005)
On August 31, 2005, the ACLU Women's Rights Project settled a case on behalf of a victim of domestic violence whose landlord locked her out of her home without notice at the instruction of her abusive husband.

Women's Equality Day Program, National Training Center – Ft. Irwin, CA (08/03/2005)

Castle Rock v. Gonzales: Making the Court's Protection Real (03/17/2005)

March Is Women's History Month (03/03/2003)

Crystal Eastman (03/12/2002)
NEW YORK--American Civil Liberties Union co-founder Crystal Eastman is one of 19 distinguished American women to be inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame on Saturday, the ACLU announced today.

Affirmative Action (03/12/2002)
Affirmative action is under attack. The backlash against meaningful efforts to achieve full citizenship for all Americans that first arose in the early 1970s has been fueled anew by a combustible mix of changing demographics, political exploitation of racial tensions and economic instability. Early contenders in next year's Presidential race have been strident in their criticisms of affirmative action. Voters in California will probably confront a ballot initiative in 1996 to repeal all affirmative action laws in that state. And even the United States Supreme Court, formerly the principal architect of this legal remedy for discrimination, has issued decisions in recent years that diminish its role in correcting the pervasive underrepresentation of women and people of color in many spheres of education and the world of work.

The ACLU And Women's Rights: Proud History, Continuing Struggle (03/12/2002)
For 75 years the ACLU has been in the forefront of the struggle to win full legal equality for women. From its defense of suffragist and birth control pioneer Mary Ware Dennett in the 1920s when the government declared her sex education pamphlet "obscene," to today's battle to admit women to The Citadel, a state-funded military academy, the ACLU continues to be vigilant in its defense of women's rights. The ACLU advocated women's rights long before the feminist revival of the 1960s. Suffragists and othe r women social reformers and political activists -- among them, Jane Addams, Mary Ware Dennett, Crystal Eastman and Jeannette Rankin -- were instrumental in the founding of the organization in 1920.

ACLU Applauds Legislative "Gutting" of Anti-Choice Bill (03/11/2002)
LITTLE ROCK, AK - The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas today applauded lawmakers on the state Senate Public Health, Welfare, & Labor Committee, who acted in concert to negate the effects of pending anti-choice legislation.

Links to other Women's Rights Resources (02/21/2002)
The following sites provide comprehensive or unique resources relating to the work of the ACLU in this issue area. While some of these sites are operated by organizations that work frequently in coalition with the ACLU, the sites may also include materials on positions we do not share. To report a broken or relocated link, or to suggest a site for inclusion on this page, use the feedback button at the bottom of this page

About the ACLU Women's Rights Project (12/31/1996)