Feminist Majority Foundation https://feminist.org/ Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:28:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://feminist.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/cropped-fmf-globe-32x32.png Feminist Majority Foundation https://feminist.org/ 32 32 Public Support for Same-Sex Marriage Falls From Recent Highs https://feminist.org/news/public-support-for-same-sex-marriage-falls-from-recent-highs/ Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:28:46 +0000 https://feminist.org/?p=88620 On June 26th, 2015, in a 5-4 ruling, the Supreme Court issued Obergefell v. Hodges, a landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage in the United States. For over a decade, the ruling has remained in effect under the Fourteenth Amendment, Equal Protection Clause, and Due Process Clauses.  When Obergefell was decided, 60% of U.S. adults […]

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]]> House Rejects Bill to Advance Plans to Construct American Women’s History Museum https://feminist.org/news/house-rejects-bill-to-advance-plans-to-construct-american-womens-history-museum/ Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:21:18 +0000 https://feminist.org/?p=88618 Despite nearly 180 years of Smithsonian history, the United States still does not have a national museum dedicated to women’s history. Congress approved the creation of the American Women’s History Museum (AWHM) in 2021 alongside the National Museum of the American Latino. Yet progress towards building the museum has stalled. Most recently, the House of […]

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]]> E. Jean Carroll Faces Investigation Amid Ongoing Legal Battles With Trump https://feminist.org/news/e-jean-carroll-faces-investigation-amid-ongoing-legal-battles-with-trump/ Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:18:01 +0000 https://feminist.org/?p=88615 On May 28, the Department of Justice launched a criminal probe into E. Jean Carroll, a journalist whom President Trump sexually abused in the mid-1990s. The probe is intended to investigate whether Carroll committed perjury during her testimony in two civil lawsuits against Trump. The first case, Carroll I, pertains to his assault of Carroll […]

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]]> Taliban Dress Code Crackdown in Afghanistan Sparks Protests, Arrests, and Condemnation https://feminist.org/news/taliban-dress-code-crackdown-in-afghanistan-sparks-protests-arrests-and-condemnation/ Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:37:20 +0000 https://feminist.org/?p=88614 On June 6 and 7, officials from the Taliban’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, commonly known as the morality police, detained dozens of women in western Afghanistan’s Herat Province for alleged dress code violations. Witnesses and residents reported that many of the women arrested were already fully covered and complied […]

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