Three Free Ways You Can Help Women (in Under a Minute)
Stand up and be counted on the following petitions:
Tell the United States House of Representatives, the United States Senate, and President Obama to pass the Access to Birth Control Act (H.R.2659/S.1415). This act requires that pharmacy employees provide a customer a contraceptive without delay if it is in stock, or immediately inform a customer if the contraceptive is not in stock, and either transfer the prescription to a pharmacy that has the contraceptive in stock or expedite the ordering of the contraceptive. It also ensures that pharmacy employees do not intimidate, threaten or harass customers requesting contraception.
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Tell the Department of Health and Human Services to protect women’s health and access to abortion coverage. Ensure that the Nelson abortion-coverage restrictions to the Affordable Care Act allow women to access insurance plans that offer full abortion coverage.
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Tell JCPenney and Forever21 to stop putting sexist clothing on their shelves. Forever 21 began offering for sale a shirt for girls emblazoned with the slogan “Allergic to Algebra” and JC Penney offered similar girls’ shirts with the slogan “I’m too pretty to do homework, so my brother has to do it for me.” Sexist slogans like these perpetuate the stereotype that women are innately bad at math or being pretty is more important than being smart. They also reinforce with boys the stereotype that they are innately better than girls when it comes to math or that a girl’s worth comes only from her looks.
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