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Liz Bickel | all galleries >> Galleries of Life: Multiple Galleries >> Month by Month Holidays! Multiple Galleries >> March: Hint of Spring > International Women's Day 2025
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08-Mar-2025

International Women's Day 2025

What will their future now be in the USA?

They are currently young and happy to celebrate being a woman.
Meanwhile, here's some Food for Thought from AI

"The Trump administration has been a contentious period for women's rights. Some policies and executive orders have rolled back progress in areas such as reproductive rights, gender equality, and workplace diversity. For example, the administration's stance on abortion has led to increased restrictions in many states. Additionally, efforts to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives."

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Language policing now also exists in the US government. Much of it is addressed against women.
In an article published on March 7, New York Times journalists List some of the many words and terms that the Trump Administration is forbidding government workers (including the FDA and the CDC health agencies that greatly effect women's health) to use in their communications.

Among newly banned words are "woman," "female", "inequality", "disparity", "trauma", "discriminatory", "equal opportunity", "gender", "feminism", "transgender", "LGBT," "nonbinary", "Latinx", "pregnant people", "pregnant persons", "inclusiveness", "Black", "stereotype", "prostitute", "mental health", "activist", "sexuality", "hate speech", "gender-affirming care", "activists", "intersectional", "diversity", "victims", "fetus", "science-based", "climate crisis", "people + uterus", "culture history", "social economic", "stereo type", "equal opportunity", "most at risk", "multicultural", "Gulf of Mexico": among MANY others.

The restrictions were part of broader efforts to reshape language in official documents." Other words the government is now stopping the use of include: “all-inclusive”, “historically”, “Native American”, “underappreciated”, “health equity”, and “political” according to the Times. The publication added that the list is likely very incomplete.

“The words and phrases listed here represent a marked — and remarkable — shift in the corpus of language being used both in the federal government’s corridors of power and among its rank and file,” the Times said. “They are an unmistakable reflection of this administration’s priorities.”

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In the US news: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/on-international-women-s-day-research-shows-gender-equality-is-still-150-years-away/ar-AA1AwGJU?ocid=BingNewsVerp

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1105191210-Mar-2025 17:47
Where the Trump administration and offshoots want to relegate women to, is mind boggling. This is only the beginning.
Stay informed and try to familiarize yourself with what's happening in your community.
Vote. Write your congressional representatives at the state and local level.
Strength is in community, strength is in solidarity.
Scott
Mairéad09-Mar-2025 22:55
So what are we if not women or female - non-men?
Tom Beech09-Mar-2025 13:35
We have been dragged down into the seemingly bottomless rabbit hole and we must pull ourselves out as quickly as possible... always Fact check!
joseantonio09-Mar-2025 11:54
hope there will something to celebrate next year.V