Tag: equal rights for women

In India, where women are often paid to be surrogate mothers, many are debating whether the government should outlaw paid surrogacy.
  • Free Market Economy

Should paid surrogacy be illegal?

In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, wherein she established the individualist roots of equal rights.
  • Equal Treatment Under The Law

Mary Wollstonecraft: libertarian feminist

Mercy Otis Warren, who for decades advocated for women's rights, is often regarded in history as “the conscience of the revolution.”
  • Free Speech

Mercy Otis Warren: conscience of great causes

Anne Hutchinson, persecuted by the Massachusetts Bay theocracy, planted the seeds of libertarianism that would help establish a new nation.
  • Free Speech

Anne Hutchinson and the spirit of religious liberty

The issue of choice has been of the utmost importance to feminism and to the expansions of women’s rights over the past 200 years.
  • Human Rights

Feminism is about choice

Without tort, doctors and hospitals could continue to refuse to answer questions about malpractice and continue to violate women's rights.
  • Healthcare

Why new mothers usually don’t sue doctors who violate their rights

Conscription makes citizens into subjects. The way to advance women’s equality is not to make them equally subject to coercion.
  • Human Rights

Women in the draft: the wrong kind of equality

This Women’s History Month, it is important to remember those who were wrongfully jailed, sterilized, and killed by the state.
  • Human Rights

Remembering the forgotten women, victims of government

Higher marginal tax rates have a disproportionate impact on married women pursuing a career, who sometimes opt to stop working as a result.
  • Monetary Policy

Want to help women? Lower marginal tax rates

Women work for equality, but some policy proposals really aren't helping
  • Monetary Policy

Women work for equality – but these 3 policy ideas don’t

Ulrich and Ostrom highlight how when we fail to account for women’s contributions, we risk ignoring significant forces that shaped the world
  • Human Rights

Elinor Ostrom, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, and learning to see the women who have shaped the world

  • Free Market Economy

The tax code is designed to penalize working women

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