The possible overturn of Roe v. Wade should surprise no one. Marginalized women have been sounding the alarm for decades

These organizations do the hard work of creating the conditions for, and accelerating, much-needed social change, and data analysis shows that women's rights organizations in the Global South that do this essential work operate on shoestring budgets averaging $30,000 a year.

On the other hand, according to a 2020 report by the Global Philanthropy Project, over a 10-year period, US organizations that oppose women's rights and those of LGBTQ+ communities, had an aggregate revenue of more than $6 billion. They spend their money in the US but also around the world, funding campaigns against our rights and supporting court cases.

The reversal of Roe versus Wade will be the culmination of decades-long attacks on abortion rights in the US. Feminist movements, especially led by Black women, and especially in the US South, have also been on the frontlines of responding to attacks that have included eroding reproductive rights at the state level and dangerous so-called 'abortion reversal' methods.

The fact is, even with Roe versus Wade intact, abortion had become increasingly inaccessible for many women, particularly poor women, women of color and those who live in rural areas.

As Paris Hatcher, Founder and Director of Black Feminist Future said via email: "Too many of our communities in the US have been existing in a pre-Roe reality. With few clinics and ever mounting bans and restrictions, abortion access is still legal yet out of reach."

"The reality is that the Roe decision has been the floor in reference to what we actually need and want for abortion access and reproductive justice," added Hatcher whose organization offers leadership development and community care. "Lack of serious investment in feminist groups for the last decades has meant our movements barely have what they need to respond to constant attacks rather than building on Roe and advancing the bold visions and policies we so desperately need".

People who care about abortion access -- in the US and beyond -- should also want to see unprecedented resources flow directly to those most impacted by this injustice. We need to counter the under-investing in these people, which is reinforced by flawed practices such as selecting grantees from closed networks, giving project-based rather than core support, and basing grant size solely by organizational budget as opposed to need and organizational promise. These practices have perpetuated rather than challenged inequalities.

This month, new research from my organization Shake the Table -- working with The Bridgespan group which provides consulting to non-profits and philanthropists -- calls for an additional $1.5 billion a year to be invested in feminist movements globally, including to organizations in the United States.

In order to reverse the mounting damage being done every day to women's and LGBTQ+ rights, feminist movements need more resources. They also need the freedom to respond to new threats and opportunities and to boldly innovate. The threats, in their source and nature, are always changing and we need feminist organizations that are resilient and able to change too. Now is the time to fund those organizations into being.

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Written by Pallabi Munsi

She was called among other monikers the 'First lady of Physics', and yet it is believed that Dr Chien-Shiung Wu's contribution to particle physics was not given the recognition it deserved when she was alive.

Born in Liuhe, a fishing town north of Shanghai, Wu studied in a school started by her father who believed girls should be educated. In 1934, she graduated at the top of her class from National Central University in Nanking -- now Nanjing University. Then in 1936, she enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, to do a PhD in nuclear physics, which she received in 1940.

A career in academia followed: first Smith College, then Princetown University where she was the first woman on the faculty of the physics department. After that, while working at Columbia University, she joined the Manhattan Project, the classified project funded by the US government to develop the first atomic bomb.

In 1956, she was approached by theoretical physicists Tsung Dao Lee and Chen Ling Ning Yang to devise an experiment to prove a theory of theirs that was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics just one year later. But Wu's contributions were not recognized. Still the physicist would go on to receive several other awards and accolades, including having an asteroid named after her.

Throughout her career, Wu was a vociferous critic of gender discrimination in the sciences. She once asked an audience at a symposium at MIT "whether the tiny atoms and nuclei, or the mathematical symbols, or the DNA molecules have any preference for either masculine or feminine treatment."