Countries: United States
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1, ABO-LAW-1

"The U.S. Supreme Court last year overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that provided a right to abortion nationwide. Since then, most states led by conservative lawmakers and governors have adopted bans or tighter restrictions" (par. 24). "Currently, abortion is banned throughout pregnancy — with limited exceptions — in 15 American states. Bans in two more states forbid abortion after cardiac activity can be detected, generally around six weeks into pregnancy and often before women know they are pregnant. Judges have put enforcement of restrictions on hold in at least four additional states" (par. 26).

Countries: United States
Variables: DACH-PRACTICE-1

"'Regardless, this is compelling new evidence that abortion bans are preventing tens of thousands of people who want abortions from reaching providers in the formal health care system,' said Caitlin Myers, a professor at Middlebury College who has studied the effects of abortion restrictions before Dobbs and was not involved in the report. The measured declines in legal abortions were about twice as large as she had estimated in her research, based solely on increases in travel distances. 'It’s likely that factors like clinic congestion, stigma and fear are proving just as great an obstacle,' she said" (par. 19-20). "After the Dobbs decision, the clinic hired half a dozen more...more

Countries: United States
Variables: ABO-PRACTICE-1

"New restrictions and the obstacles they create — including travel logistics and expenses, long wait times at some clinics and confusion or fear about laws — seem to have prevented even more women than expected from obtaining legal abortions" (par. 2). "They increased by an average of 2,100 a month in states where abortion remained legal, suggesting that some women traveled across state lines" (par. 4). "And one of the pills in the two-pill regimen for medication abortion, a method that now represents the majority of legal abortions in America, may be curtailed if a federal court ruling in Texas issued Friday is upheld" (par. 5). "'For our patients, it’s...more

Countries: United States
Variables: ABO-DATA-1

"The number of legal abortions in the United States decreased just over 6 percent in the six months after the Supreme Court ended the right to abortion last June, according to a report released Tuesday, the most comprehensive and up-to-date count of abortions nationwide" (par. 1). "The data goes through Dec. 31, by which point 13 states had banned abortion with almost no exceptions and another, Georgia, had banned it after six weeks of pregnancy. Legal abortions in the states with total bans fell to nearly zero — an average decrease of around 7,300 abortions a month compared with April and May. They increased by an average of 2,100 a...more

Countries: United States
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-3

"[WALSH] The 700-page report found that in the absence of women, vulgar and sexist comments were being made in front of the male recruits. MONTGOMERY: To objectify women, to describe acts with women's bodily parts, to condone tacit violence against women. WALSH: These images were even written into company training documents found at San Diego, which only began training women after a congressional mandate" (par. 8-10). "WALSH: After the report came out, Lieutenant General Kevin Iiams, who heads the Marine Corps Training and Education Command, traveled to both boot camps to say the Marine Corps does not condone the language. Critics say training men and women separately fosters attitudes that...more

Countries: United States
Variables: IIP-PRACTICE-2

"WALSH: The need for additional privacy not only keeps male and female recruits separate, but also limits the opportunities for female drill instructors since drill instructors also sleep in the squad bay. The 700-page report found that in the absence of women, vulgar and sexist comments were being made in front of the male recruits. MONTGOMERY: To objectify women, to describe acts with women's bodily parts, to condone tacit violence against women. . .MONTGOMERY: Male recruits that we spoke with in the focus groups, they had a recognition that this language was wrong to use around women. They had this recognition that when I go to the next training step...more

Countries: United States
Variables: EWCMS-LAW-1

"The Marines are under a Congressional mandate to integrate boot camp in line with all other services, but they say they don't plan to go all the way despite having a plan to carry it out. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: The Marines are under a congressional mandate to end gender segregation in boot camp. That would bring the service in line with all the other branches of the military. But the Marines say they don't plan to go all the way" (par. 1-2). "WALSH: Congresswoman Jackie Speier placed language in the defense bill that requires the Marines to end gender segregation by 2025 at Parris Island and 2028 in San...more

Countries: United States
Variables: ERBG-PRACTICE-2

"LORY MANNING: They're afraid that if they introduce women into some of these units, it will wreck the male bond. Whereas the other services have found out that the women blend right in, and they have a band of brothers and sisters" (par. 13).

Countries: United States
Variables: ERBG-LAW-1

"JACKIE SPEIER: They are foot dragging and are, you know, violating, frankly, a provision I put in the fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act that prohibits gender-separated training at any level" (par. 17).

Countries: United States
Variables: DV-LAW-1

"House Bill 995, authored by Rep. Dana McLean, R-Columbus, would remove archaic, misogynistic language from the 1800s from Mississippi’s rape and sexual battery laws and remove a spousal defense for those who commit marital rape. The bill would clarify the definition and elements of rape and sexual assault, replacing passages such as 'assault with the intent to forcibly ravish a female of previously chaste character'" (para 5).

Countries: United States
Variables: LRW-DATA-1

"Middleton and other advocates said statistics are scant, but one review showed that from 2019 through 2021, only 20 rapes were prosecuted in Mississippi. While there are problems finding statistics on reported rapes, one national report said Mississippi had 1,148 reported cases in 2020" (para 7).

Countries: United States
Variables: LRW-PRACTICE-1

"House Bill 485, authored by Rep. Angela Cockerham, I-Magnolia, would standardize the handling, timely testing and tracking of sexual assault evidence or 'rape kits' in Mississippi. Unlike 36 other states, Mississippi has no statewide rules and advocates say there is a large — albeit unknown due to lack of tracking — backlog of unprocessed rape kits. It would also give survivors the right to know the status of their kits" (para 4). "Sandy Middleton, director of the Center for Violence Prevention, said, 'Mississippi has a backlog of rape cases, but it’s not at the crime lab. The kits are sitting in hospital emergency room refrigerators or the trunk of police...more

Countries: United States
Variables: CL-PRACTICE-1

"Once they move from college to the workforce, women still overwhelmingly bear family caregiving responsibilities that can interrupt their careers, said Joseph Fuller, professor of management practice at Harvard" (par. 22). "'The career path associated with decision-making jobs and highly paid jobs, their design logic and even their language is still firmly rooted in a 1960s paradigm,' said Fuller. 'If you go to a big global company, the path to the C-suite anticipates one or two international assignments, four or five relocations, very demanding work hours. There's nothing that prevents a man or a woman from making those commitments, but if you're the principal caregiver, those burdens still disproportionately fall...more

Countries: United States
Variables: ASR-PRACTICE-1

"Madeline Szoo grew up listening to her grandmother talk of being laughed at when she spoke of going to college and becoming an accountant. 'No one will trust a woman with their money,' relatives and friends would scoff. When Szoo excelled at math in high school, she got her share of ridicule too — though it was slightly subtler. 'I was told a lot, 'You're smart for a girl,'' she said. 'I knew other girls in my classes who weren't able to move past that.' But Szoo had no doubt she would go to college, and she's now a student at Northeastern University, studying chemical engineering and biochemistry. She plans...more

Countries: United States
Variables: AFE-PRACTICE-2

"A study by the consulting firm McKinsey & Company and the women's advocacy organization Lean In finds that, even as they are more likely than men to finish college, women in corporate roles are less likely to be promoted from entry-level jobs to management positions. Eighty-seven women advanced to management positions in their companies, it found, for every 100 men" (par. 25).