Politics

Society
What the voter gender divide means for Canada’s political future
https://theconversation.com/what-the-voter-gender-divide-means-for-canadas-political-future-255857

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Society
Half of women’s organizations in crisis zones risk closure within six months
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/05/1163201
Society
Give birth? In this economy? US women scoff at Trump’s meager ‘baby bonuses’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/13/trump-baby-bonus-childbirth-pronatalism
Society
The Supreme Court’s Radical Right Turn Is About Restoring Patriarchy, Plain and Simple
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/05/leah-litman-lawless-supreme-courts-alito-news.html
Women Leaders
Mandy Gull-Masty becomes first Indigenous minister of Indigenous Services Canada
https://www.aptnnews.ca/national-news/mandy-gull-masty-becomes-first-indigenous-minister-of-indigenous-services-canada/
Society
Political tension and fears of violence may have depressed voter turnout in 2024 
https://19thnews.org/2025/05/voting-fears-women-gender-nonconforming-people/
History
Viking pregnancy was deeply political – new study
https://theconversation.com/viking-pregnancy-was-deeply-political-new-study-254738
Women Leaders
‘Deal with the women’s issue or enjoy oblivion’: conservative women on whether they can still call the Liberal party home
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/10/liberal-party-women-say-watershed-moment-needed-to-win-them-back
Gender equality
Trump’s Orwellian erasure of women
https://time.com/7284644/trumps-erasure-of-women/
Society
Government Launches One Time Scholarship Recognizing 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage
https://vocm.com/2025/05/08/government-launches-one-time-scholarship-recognizing-100th-anniversary-of-womens-suffrage/
Health
Quebec Solidaire introduces bill on free contraception for women in province
https://www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/quebec-solidaire-introduces-bill-on-free-contraception-for-women-in-province/
Society
‘Whipped in front of everyone’: three women on being flogged by the Taliban
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/may/06/afghanistan-taliban-sharia-law-mahram-women-flogging-public-moral-crimes-guardians