Battle of the Sexes Quiz: 22 Sex Equality Questions (2022)

Roe v. Wade was a 1973 US Supreme Court case that legalized abortion nationwide. On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court overruled the decision, which the majority opinion described as “egregiously wrong” because “the US Constitution does not refer to abortion.”

What’s the 2022 Supreme Court leak?

Politico reporters Josh Gerstein and Alexander Ward released on May 2, 2022, a “1st Draft” of the “Opinion of the Court” in a case challenging Mississippi’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks, a case known as Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.

What happens now?

The decision to overrule Roe leads to abortion bans in roughly half of US states.

Are most American anti-abortions?

A May 2021 poll by the Pew Research Center found that 59% of US adults believed abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

Colombia’s Green Wave movement to decriminalize abortion had a winning moment on Feb. 22, 2022, when Colombia’s top Constitutional Court ruled that abortion is no longer a crime under Colombian law. The court’s decision decriminalizes abortions in the first 24 weeks of pregnancy. Mexico’s Supreme Court decriminalized abortion in Sept. 2021, and Argentina’s Congress legalized the procedure in late 2020.

On March 8, 2022, Florida lawmakers passed a Republican-backed bill that would very much limit classroom discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity. Under the law, parents would be allowed to sue school districts they believe violate it. High school students across Florida have staged walkouts to protest the bill. Russia and Hungary passed similar anti-LGBT legislation in recent years.

Mahsa Amini, 22, was stopped by Iran’s morality police at a train station in Tehran and accused of not following the country’s hijab rules. Three days later, on Sept. 16, 2022, she was killed. Protests in Iran erupted in the weeks following. On Oct. 11, the Norway-based rights group Hengaw reported heavy casualties in Sanandaj, Amini’s hometown, where protests have been particularly intense.

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On May 19, 2022, Afghanistan’s Taliban ordered all female TV presenters to cover their faces on air. In reaction, male TV presenters on Afghanistan’s Tolo News wore face masks in solidarity with their female peers as part of a protest called #FreeHerFace on social media. Tolo news presenters wore facemasks on air for two days, from May 22 to 24, 2022.

The Brits’ first-ever genderless award show was on Feb. 8, 2022 – with more women nominated than at any time in the past decade and female artists or female-fronted bands winning two-thirds of the awards. Adele won three out of the four main prizes in the ceremony, including the first-ever gender-neutral Artist of the Year award.

Frida Kahlo’s oil painting, “Diego and I,” completed five years before her death in 1954, sold for $34.9 million at Sotheby’s on Nov. 16, 2021, making it the most expensive artwork by a Latin American artist.

Who is Diego from Frida Kahlo’s “Diego and I”?

Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, who is depicted in “Diego and I” just above Kahlo’s tearful eyes, was the artist’s husband (they married twice) and the previous “most expensive artwork by a Latin American artist” record holder. Kahlo’s “Diego and I” surpassed Rivera’s “The Rivals” 2018 record, when his painting sold at auction for $9.76 million.

Serena Williams’s third-round loss to Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic on Sept. 2, 2022, at the US Open, was the most-watched tennis telecast in ESPN’s 43-year history, peaking with 6.9 million viewers. Serena Williams’s defeat to Venus Williams at the 2001 US Open finals was watched by 22.7 Million viewers  – but was broadcasted on CBS prime-time television.

Data collected by Newswhip from Apr. 4 to May 16, 2022, and published in Axios on May 17, indicated that news articles about the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial had generated more social media interactions per-article in the US compared to all other news topics.

Who won the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard trial?

On June 1, 2022, a seven-person jury in Fairfax, Virginia, found that Johnny Depp and his Ex-wife Amber Heard defamed each other. Heard was ordered to pay $10.35 million in damages for describing herself in a 2018 op-ed in The Washington Post as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” Depp was ordered to pay $2 million in damages after the jury ruled that his lawyer had defamed Heard in one instance when he accused her of damaging the couple’s penthouse and blaming it on Depp. Heard plans to appeal.

The Phoenix Act extends the statute of limitations for survivors of domestic violence. In 2019, the bill passed in California with unanimous support. Evan Rachel Wood led the legislation.

What’s Phoenix Rising?

“Phoenix Rising” is a two-part documentary showcasing Evan Rachel Wood’s rise as an activist and her struggles to cope with the abuse she alleges at Marilyn Manson. The first part of the series premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. “Phoenix Rising” will premiere on HBO later in 2022.

Dictionary.com defines allyship as the role of a person who actively works to include a marginalized group in all areas of society, not as a group member but in solidarity. The online dictionary named allyship word of the year 2021.

Wasn’t there a different definition of the word?

The dictionary also keeps the more traditional definition of allyship as the relationship of persons, groups, or nations cooperating.

Endometriosis is a disorder in which the tissue lining the uterus or womb exists outside the uterus, usually causing significant pain.

Did Amy Schumer make her endometriosis go away?

Amy Schumer, 40, shared on Instagram on Jan. 18, 2022, how she’s feeling after undergoing surgery for endometriosis (and also liposuction). “I feel good. Finally,” Schumer captioned two beachside images of her. Schumer revealed she had a hysterectomy and her appendix removed in Sept. 2022, after years of pain from endometriosis. At the time, she said, “All my lifelong pain explained and lifted out of my body.”

Xiomara Castro is the president-elect of Honduras. She takes office on 27 January 2022. Castro will be Honduras’s first female president and the first president not to be a member of either the Liberal Party or the National Party since Honduran democracy was restored in 1982.

Who’s Honduras’s first First-Husband?

Manuel Zelaya, Xiomara Castro’s husband, was President of Honduras from 2006 to 2009 until exiled in the 2009 Honduran coup d’état. Castro was a leader of the movement resisting the coup.

Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black female justice in the Supreme Court’s 200-plus-year history. She is the second Supreme Court justice since 1870 to be confirmed without a single vote from the Senate minority party. The first is Amy Coney Barrett.

But what are Ketanji Brown Jackson’s credentials?

In late February 2022, FOX News scandalist Tucker Carlson demanded that Jackson reveal her LSAT scores – implying she hasn’t had the credential needed to be a Supreme Court Justice. In actuality, Jackson attended Harvard Law School, where she was a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review. She graduated in 1996 with a Juris Doctor cum laude, spent 15 years as a public defender, and eight years as a trial court judge in the US district court in DC. On the other hand, Amy Coney Barrett holds the records for the first Supreme Court justice without an Ivy League degree since the 2010 retirement of John Paul Stevens and the only Supreme Justice who did not receive her Juris Doctor from Harvard or Yale.

Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. secretary of state, died of cancer on March 23, 2022, at 84. Albright served in that role from 1997 to 2001. She fled the Nazis as a child with her family from her native Czechoslovakia to London during World War II and was raised a Roman Catholic. Still, her parents likely converted to Catholicism from Judaism to avoid persecution as Nazism gained strength in Europe, according to research by Washington Post.

On Sept. 26, 2022, the Brothers of Italy, a neo-fascist party, won the most votes in Italy’s national election. With the election results, Giorgia Meloni will be Italy’s first female premier and the first for the far right since World War II.

The American actress Anna May Wong is considered the first Chinese American Hollywood movie star, the first Asian American film star, and the first Chinese-American actress to gain international recognition. She worked on silent films, sound films, television, stage, and radio between 1919 and her death in 1961.

Is Anna May Wong on the reverse side of the American quarter?

After Maya Angelou, Dr. Sally Ride, Wilma Mankiller, and Nina Otero-Warren, Wong is the fifth quarter released in 2022 as part of the American Women Quarters Program. She’s also the first Asian American to appear on a US currency. The US Mint is expected to create more than 300 million Wong quarters.

Directed by Domee Shi, Turning Red is the first Pixar movie directly solely by a woman – with an almost entirely female crew. The film’s protagonist, 13-year-old Meilin Lee (voiced by Rosalie Chiang), is a Chinese-Canadian eighth-grader in the throes of puberty. The film was released on March 11, 2022.

Who was the first woman to direct an animated feature from a major studio?

Brenda Chapman, co-director of Pixar’s Brave (2012), became the first woman to direct an animated feature from a major studio in 1998 when she helmed DreamWorks Animation’s The Prince of Egypt.

US Census Bureau data released on Apr. 6, 2022, shows the median age of new mothers has risen to 30 from 27 three decades ago, the highest in history. Between ages 20 and 24, the fertility rate declined by almost 43%, and between 25 and 29, it dropped by more than 22%. Meanwhile, fertility rates increased by 67% for women aged 35-39 and 132% for 40-44. Based on the Census Bureau analysis of National Center for Health Statistics data, foreign-born new mothers have seen the most significant increases in median age, from 27 to 32.

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Édith Cresson is the first woman to have held the office of Prime Minister of France. She served from May ’91 to Apr. ’92, and left office due to corruption charges dating from her tenure as European Commissioner for Research, Science and Technology.

Who’s Élisabeth Borne?

On May 16, 2022, Élisabeth Borne, 61, became France’s first female prime minister in 30 years and second in modern French history. A Macron ally, Borne served as minister for transport, environment, and labor during his first term.

Canadian-born Margaret Atwood famously authored The Handmaid’s Tale in 1985.

Is there a Burn-proof edition of The Handmaid’s Tale?

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Atwood and Penguin Random House announced on May 23, 2022, that a one-off, unburnable edition of The Handmaid’s Tale would be auctioned through Sotheby’s New York. Proceeds will be donated to PEN, which advocates for free expression around the world.

On July 1, 2022, Google announced new privacy protections on its Google Maps service. The company will delete locations like abortion clinics, counseling centers, domestic violence shelters, fertility clinics, addiction treatment facilities, and weight loss clinics from users’ Location History. The information will be purged shortly after any visit to these facilities. The new policy will take effect in the coming weeks.