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It’s ⏰ to change the conversation around menopause and menstrual health in the workplace. New research reveals the global growth in menstrual and menopause leave policies – and the need for greater evaluation.

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November 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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No more silently suffering through hot flashes, brain fog, or pelvic pain.
This #WorldMenopauseMonth, let’s:

📈 Review the research

🗣️ Break the stigma

📣 Create more inclusive, evidence-based workplace policies
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Menstruation and Menopause Policies - Gender Policy Report
More employers and governments are adopting menstruation and menopause policies. To advance gender equity, we need to design evidence-based workplace supports across the reproductive lifecycle.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Safety and dignity in one’s work should be a given. But for many LGBTQ+ workers in the formal & informal service sector, safety is still out of reach.

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Anti-LGBTQ+ Violence is a Labor Issue - Gender Policy Report
Anti- LGBTQ+ violence is on the rise. Effective anti-violence measures must account for the labor dimensions of violence.
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September 5, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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This #Pride, we honor the LGBTQ+ ancestors and allies who fought oppressive actors, systems, and laws. We are in your debt, and we repay it by continuing the fight.

#Pride2025 #LGBTQ
Pauli Murray quote, "One Person plus one typewriter constitutes a movement." genderpolicyreport.umn.edu
June 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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The right to privacy has generally been reserved for those who conform most closely to dominant (hetero)sexual norms. What legal frameworks could promote a more robust vision of erotic justice?

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Privacy, Dignity, and Erotic Justice - Gender Policy Report
Privacy was never enough to ensure freedom for LGBTQ+ and other sexually- minoritized groups, such as sex workers. We need to move beyond privacy rights to achieve erotic justice in US law.
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June 13, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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📅 June 7th is the 60th Anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut. 📜 🏛️

If we don’t have a right to purchase our privacy, what does this mean for mail-order abortion access?

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#GriswoldvConnecticut
Pop art of blonde woman with finger to lips with text: The Stanley line of cases is therefore in tension with Griswold, leaving unresolved the question of whether the right of privacy includes a concomitant right of purchase. Jennifer Kinsley. Genderpolicyreport.umn.edu
June 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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In practice, privacy rights were always limited by race and class. Has relying upon privacy rights deterred the growth of strong, cross-racial reproductive justice movements?

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#GriswoldvConnecticut #PrivacyMatters #ReproductiveRights #Griswoldat60
Pop art figure of blonde woman with finger held to lips to indicate secrecy. Quote: "Sixty years later, Griswold (and Roe) illuminate some of the ways that reformist, landmark initiatives can still serve reactionary goals, stifling progress toward we now call reproductive justice." Rickie Solinger genderpolicyreport.umn.edu
May 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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📅 June 7th marks the 60th Anniversary of Griswold v. Connecticut. 📜 🏛️

For those concerned about reproductive, gender, and sexual justice, privacy matters. █▬▬

Read Privacy Matters: The Legacy of Griswold

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Pop art blonde woman with finger to lips. Privacy Matters: The Legacy of Griswold. Genderpolicyreport.umn.edu
May 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Student loans dragging you down? That's by design.
Women, especially women of color, are more likely to be burdened by student loan debt.

Learn more about how we got to this crisis. From the 🗄️:

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Negative Dowry: Why Women of Color Owe More Student Debt - Gender Policy Report
Student debt is a crisis for women, particularly women of color. How did we get here?
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May 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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📣📣📮: The Trump administration’s aggressive campaign against migrants holds particularly devastating implications for female asylum seekers.

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Women Seeking Asylum in the Age of Trump - Gender Policy Report
Women fleeing gender-based violence are often denied asylum, based on the erroneous belief that gender-based violence is a “private” concern.
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April 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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🆕📮: Metro and Minority Foster Girls Lack Access to Public Services

What can we do to ensure positive outcomes and a successful, independent future for former foster girls?

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#AcademicSky #genderandequity
Metro and Minority Foster Girls Lack Access to Public Services - Gender Policy Report
Foster girls face profound challenges as they transition to adulthood, challenges that differ along lines of race, ethnicity, and location.
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March 31, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Don't miss Keira Mac Neill's fascinating history of queer labor organizing in the U.S. service sector, and its insights for the current backlash @genderpolicyrpt.bsky.social @lawcha.bsky.social
Queer Labor: LGBTQ Organizing in the Service Sector - Gender Policy Report
LGBT workers are more likely to work in low-wage occupations, such as the service sector. For decades, these workers have led efforts to queer labor movements.
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March 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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January is National Human Trafficking Prevention Month. But prevention hasn’t traditionally been at the center of the US federal response. What can we do differently? (from the 🗃️)

#HumanTraffickingPreventionMonth

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Preventing Human Trafficking - Gender Policy Report
US federal policy has over-emphasized prosecuting, and not preventing, human trafficking. It’s time for a public health approach to trafficking.
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January 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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December 30, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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📣📣📮📮: 15-minute cities have been proposed as the answer to problems of urban sustainability. Will they also solve gender inequities?

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Are 15-Minute Cities Feminist Cities? - Gender Policy Report
Can the “15-minute city” solve the challenges faced by women? Feminist urban planning interventions offer a wealth of solutions to contemporary urban problems.
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December 3, 2024 at 4:35 PM
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What's @genderpolicyrpt.bsky.social? The Gender Policy Report seeks to inform policy debates and improve public discourse. We take the best insights from scholarship and research and make them accessible to broader communities in a way that is timely for addressing serious policy challenges.🧵
November 21, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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📣 📣 “Religious liberty” is often equated with right wing efforts to restrict the bodily autonomy of marginalized groups. How do the courts respond to religious liberty cases brought by progressive people of faith?

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#FeministSky #Polisky
What a Religious Right to Abortion Means for Religious Liberty - Gender Policy Report
The Christian Right has long demanded the right to be exempted from laws and policies on “religious liberty” grounds. A recent Indiana case suggests that the courts may finally be willing to extend th...
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November 19, 2024 at 9:08 PM
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We made a starter pack for those interested in publications, journals, and centers that work on gender equity and public policy. A work in progress, reach out to be added.

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November 19, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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We have a #HousingCrisis. The average US renter now spends over 30% of their income on rent. The housing crisis is also endangering low-income renters.

#HousingFirst #PutTenantsFirst #HousingJustice

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September 29, 2023 at 6:59 PM