Feminists For Obama

05/29/2013

ICYMI: has launched a new campaign to get a woman in the White House - "Madam President" http://bit.ly/12P55KW

The 2012 election was a mandate for women's leadership. The country is ready for a woman president. And Madam President is ready to harness that energy to put the first woman in the White House. It's our time. And we're ready.

05/01/2013

President Obama renews efforts to shut down Guantanamo prison http://lat.ms/11CCE2u

WASHINGTON — Confronted with a mass hunger strike and the use of forced feedings to keep inmates from starving, President Obama broke a long silence on the military prison for suspected foreign terrorists at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba , declaring it "not sustainable" and making a strongly worded ple...

04/09/2013

President Obama declares today Equal Pay Day, marking the wage gap women face today http://1.usa.gov/10JLFGl

2012: A Year in Photos

03/19/2013

Democratic Congresswomen Speak Our Against Anti women Ryan Budget

03/18/2013

Hillary Clinton on Marriage Equality: "I support it personally and as a matter of policy and law." Watch the whole video!

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D) has come out for marriage equality: CLINTON: LGBT Americans are our colleagues, our teachers, our soldiers, our friends, our loved ones, and they are full and equal citizens and deserve the rights of citizenship. That includes marriage. That’s why I supp...

03/18/2013

Today at 4:40 ET: President Obama speaks at a Women’s History Month Reception. Watch live!

Join me in watching it LIVE from the White House

03/07/2013

President Obama on VAWA: "One of the great legacies of this law is that it didn’t just change the rules; it changed our culture."

03/04/2013

Of the 35 nominations awaiting Senate approval, 17 are women, 15 are ethnic minorities, and five are openly gay.

The Feminist Majority Foundation works for social and political and economic equality for women by using research and education to improve women's lives. The Feminist Majority Foundation Online features daily feminist news with 'take action' ideas, domestic violence and sexual assault hotlines, a fe...

03/04/2013

Check out this graphic from The Washington Post about President Obama’s nominations to the federal bench!

President Obama plans to further diversify the federal judicial system during his second term by nominating judges more representative of national demographics.

03/01/2013

"Now, what’s important to understand is that not everyone will feel the pain of these cuts right away. But the pain will be real." -Obama

03/01/2013

Obama Administration Will Support Marriage Equality In Proposition 8 Case

The Department of Justice (DOJ) is a party to the Defense of Marriage Act case before the Supreme Court, but not in the case challenging California’s Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage. LGBT groups have pressured the Obama administration to nonetheless file a brief defending marriage equa...

02/28/2013

"No means no under every, every, every circumstance... Every
violation of 'no' is a violation of the law."
-Joe Biden on VAWA passage