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Current Events
Female candidacies on the rise
2008 is emerging as a potential banner year for female candidates in the House of Representatives, with politically savvy women running in nearly every special election and many early-developing Democratic primaries.
What's a Mother's Worth?
This Mother's Day let's give mothers what they really need: a more secure old age.
Media Matters Report: Women and Minorities Still Invisible In Network News
A report released Monday by watchdog group Media Matters for America documented the continuing lack of women and minorities in prime-time news programs. The three-week study of MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN’s nightly news shows found that hosts and guests are still overwhelmingly male and white. Of the 35 hosts and co-hosts, 29 were men, and all were white, according to the report. Women did not make up at least half of the guests on a single one of the three cable networks, and on some networks they comprised as little as 18 percent.
Amnesty International Increases Support for Abortion Rights
Amnesty International -- a human rights group that had previously remained mostly neutral on abortion -- has released a new policy on sexual and reproductive rights that increases the organization's support for abortion rights. Amnesty recently announced that it will support abortions for victims of sexual violence and for women whose health is endangered by pregnancy. It will also advocate the decriminalization of abortion worldwide. The decision came after two years of discussion with experts and the organization's 2.2 million members.
Bush Issues Pre-Emptive Threat to Veto Pro-Choice Laws
In a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), President Bush made clear his intent to veto any legislation that would improve access to abortion or support stem cell research. "I am concerned that this year Congress may consider legislation that could substantially change federal policies and laws on abortion, and allow taxpayer dollars to be used for the destruction of human life," Bush wrote, according to the Washington Times. "I will veto any legislation that weakens current federal policies and laws on abortion, or that encourages the destruction of human life at any stage."
New Report Ranks Best and Worst Countries for Mothers and Children
In its annual "Mother's Day Report Card," Save the Children this week released a ranking of the best and worst countries for mothers and children. The report is the eighth annual of its kind compiled by the global humanitarian organization. The report considers, among other factors, the risk of maternal mortality, use of modern contraceptives, the presence of skilled attendants during labor, women's income as compared to men's, education for girls, the percentage of underweight children under five, and the participation of women in government. Sweden is ranked the best place to be a mother and Niger falls last. The United States places 26 of 140 countries. Italy provides the best environment for children; Niger and Afghanistan tie for last place.
The Hidden Costs of America's Hypermasculine Culture
How America's fear of femininity is driving some of our worst foreign policy mistakes.
Missing Women Get National Attention
More than two weeks after their disappearance, two missing Warren County women are drawing national attention.
News outlets such as MSNBC broadcast stories Monday about Mary Ellen Walters, 68, and Ada Wasson, 80, who left their retirement home April 19 to go on a shopping trip.
Family members have searched thousands of square miles between Columbus and Carrollton, Ky., where the two women liked to shop at outlet malls.
Men Literally Walk A Mile In Women's Shoes
Walk Raises Awareness, Money For Domestic Violence
Video Premier: Felicity Huffman, Vanessa Williams, Alfre Woodard Teach Us The True Story of Mothers Day
The original Mother's Day was not conceived to sell us stuff we don't need, it was a day started by mothers to bring warfare to an end!
In the Courts
Court rules sex through use of fraud is not rape
A Hampden County man who allegedly tricked his brother's girlfriend into having sex with him by impersonating his sibling in the middle of the night cannot be convicted of rape, the state's highest court ruled yesterday in a controversial decision that affirms the court's long-held view that sex obtained through fraud is no crime.
Irish Teen Wins Right to Travel to England for Abortion
Ireland's High Court ruled yesterday that a pregnant teen carrying a fatally deformed fetus can travel outside the country to obtain an abortion, after the motion was previously defeated by the lower and middle courts. The 17-year-old girl, known as "Miss D," has been in the custody of Ireland’s Health Services Executive (HSE) since February after incidents of abuse by her mother.
Speaker Pelosi Threatens to Sue Bush Over Iraq War Bill
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has announced that she may sue President Bush if he issues a signing statement to change the meaning of a carefully compromised supplemental spending bill for the Iraq War. "We can take the president to court," Speaker Pelosi told a group of liberal bloggers, according to Kid Oakland, who writes for the website dailykos.com.
TX Rescinds HPV Vaccine Mandate; Gov. Perry Still Supports Vaccine Program
During a news conference on Tuesday, Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) announced that he would let HB 1098, which rescinds his order that all girls entering the sixth grade be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV), become law without his signature. The vaccine, called Gardasil, was approved in June 2006 to prevent cervical cancer and genital warts caused by HPV types 6, 11, 16, and 18. In February, Gov. Perry issued an executive order -- which would have made Texas the first state to mandate HPV vaccination -- that "initiated a national debate" that was "hijacked by politics and posturing," Gov. Perry said on Tuesday.
Women Around the World
Making a public splash in Saudi
A new university for women is opening in Riyadh - yet Saudi Arabia remains a country where women cannot vote, drive, dress as they like or go where they please.
Canada protests ban on women at Saudi exhibition
Saudi organisers of an education exhibition in the conservative kingdom closed a Canadian booth because it was staffed by women, Canada's embassy in Riyadh said on Monday.
They said organisers had said that women would be allowed to staff the booth promoting Canadian universities at a Middle East Education and Training Exhibition in the city of Jeddah last week.
Quota Law Puts More Women in Armenia's Election
A gender quota law for political parties is putting more women on the ballot in the May 12 elections in Armenia, where only seven women serve in Parliament. Observers say women are now playing a wider role in local politics
Will Welshwoman Penelope Fillon become the 'second lady' of France?
France's next "second lady" is likely to be a Welsh mother of five. François Fillon, the politician who is tipped to be chosen as prime minister by the president-elect, Nicolas Sarkozy, is married to a woman who comes from a small village near Abergavenny in the Welsh borders
Banding together, Indian women change their villages
A group of women's collectives in rural India use their newfound wealth to change their communities.
Women-Only Hotels Cause Concern
Establishing women-only hotels is a growing trend across the Kingdom. However, many people express concern that the new phenomena may cause further gender segregation within society.
Voices
Should I tell my daughter about her mother's two abortions?
I'm a single dad with a senior in high school -- does she need to know this secret, and should she hear it from me?
Support for Caretakers Missing From Mother's Day
Even though most U.S. mothers work for pay they often face a myth of women happily at home with the kids. It's a centuries' old story of fiction over fact that will only end when women refuse the role of unpaid caregivers and labor is equal at home.
The joys of the Jane Fonda junket
You know when it's a good week? When Jane Fonda is doing a press tour.
Pope's abortion comments changed by Vatican
The transcript doesn't match his remarks about politicians and excommunication.
Why I won't stay silent anymore
By upholding the ban on "partial-birth" abortion, the Supreme Court has injected rigid Catholic teaching into law. That's a crime against the Constitution and women.
Pocahontas: In Search of Her True Story
Monday (May 14th) marks the 400th anniversary of the first permanent English settlement in the United States. One of the key figures in that history is a young Indian girl named Pocahontas -- the daughter of the Powhatan chief. VOA's Susan Logue reports Pocahontas' story has been told many times, but not always accurately.
Health
Women Primarily Contract HIV from Their Husbands, Study Finds
Worldwide, marital sex is the leading cause of HIV infection in women, according to a new study by researchers at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The study, published in the June 2007 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, says that men's "inevitable" infidelity across most cultures is now the single greatest HIV risk for women. Moreover, the authors warn that current monogamy and abstinence-based prevention programs are ineffective because infidelity is so deeply culturally-ingrained. Dr. Jennifer S. Hirsch, one of the study's primary authors, said, "This study has direct implications for the types of prevention programs we should be supporting... It renders abstinence impossible and unilateral monogamy ineffective."
Demise of maternity wards is inducing . . . The Baby Scramble
Blaming financial losses and a deluge of patients who previously might have gone to other, now-defunct maternity wards, Jeanes Hospital is closing its obstetrics unit May 31. Chestnut Hill Hospital is reviewing its obstetrics program as well and has not ruled out closure
Childless women fare as well psychologically as mothers at mid-life
For one day each year, motherhood brings flowers, cards and Sunday brunches, but a new University of Florida study asks, how important is it for women’s happiness in midlife whether and when they had children?
Business and Financial
‘Women’s participation can enhance economic growth’
The Women’s Development Ministry should introduce strategies and interventions to improve female participation in value added sectors to enhance Pakistan’s economic growth, Competitiveness Support Fund Chief Executive Officer Arthur Bayhan said on Saturday.
Women to get lifelong protection from dowry
Women harassed for dowry may soon be able to seek redressal at any time during their marriage. The Centre is considering removing the existing limit of seven years after the wedding for registration of cases under the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961.
Michelle Obama's Career Timeout
For the first time in her adult life, Michelle Obama is about to be unemployed.
She never aspired to be a stay-at-home wife or mother. For years she wrestled with the issues that many professional women with families face, chiefly whether to quit her job. Now, that is what Obama, 43, has decided to do. And though she will hardly be homebound, she admits to being conflicted.
A third gender in the workplace
IT'S BECOME a Mother's Day tradition on a par with candy, flowers, and guilt. While advertisers wax poetically about the priceless work of motherhood, economists tally up the paycheck for the services she performs.
One Reason For Pay Gap: Women Don't Ask
Could it be that women are partly to blame for the persistent pay gap between males and females in the work force? Are many of us lame negotiators, afraid to toot our own horns and bring up the taboo subject of money?
Archambeau thinks so.
KeyBank boosting loans to women-owned businesses
Key4Women program made 50 loans in Western New York totaling $33 million
A Beloved Mag's Painful Lessons
What media companies can learn from the rise and fall of the much-beloved teen mag Sassy
Publisher Imprints Women's Voices on Book World
A commercial publisher is trying to break the business mold for marketing books to women by printing titles that are serious and appealing. Their new imprint, Voice, debuted last month with Leslie Bennetts' controversial "The Feminine Mistake."
Science and Technology
Japanese Marketers Target Gamer Girls, Moms
With Mother's Day fast approaching, Tokyo's subways and billboards are plastered with advertisements for chocolate and flowers. But one of the most visible ads, running every few minutes on the TV monitors inside subway cars, suggests that you give your mom Nintendo's portable videogame system and load it with software like Nintendogs, Brain Age or an interactive cookbook called 1000 Recipes.
Bionic parents and techno-children
Author Liza Mundy talks about "designer babies," the "epidemic" of twins, and why assisted reproduction is the world's biggest social experiment.
Meet the space women who never reached space
WHEN trainee astronaut Beatrice "B" Steadman was told 40 years ago her space flight had been stopped, her reaction was immediate. She wanted to punch someone.
She was one of 13 young American woman who smashed social stereotyping to train in secret in the Sixties as part of NASA's struggle to catch the Soviets in the space race.
Yet just days before the group was to take part in spaceflight simulation tests in Florida, their commanders pulled the plug on their mission without explanation.
Sexual Dysfunction Study Designed To Help Women
“Women who have sexual dysfunction should realize this may be a treatable condition, not just a personal problem,” says Thuy-Tien L. Dam, M.D. of the UCSD Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. “Many women don’t know that other women experience this too, and that it might be a diagnosable disorder called Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder or HSDD.”
In Domestic Abuse, Digital Photos Can Say More Than Victims
Providing digital cameras to the police is revolutionizing the prosecution of domestic violence in New York City, according to district attorneys, victim advocates and forensic technicians.
In Queens, the first borough to use the technology, prosecutors say there has been a notable increase in conviction rates since the police there began taking digital photos at domestic violence scenes about five years ago.
Religion
Muslim Women in the Media: Beyond Stereotypes
Post 9/11, coverage of Muslim cultures by Western new media skyrocketed. The media in Europe have latched on to a few examples of unjust behaviour in the Islamic world, branded Islam as a “backwards” and “fundamentalist” religion, especially in its treatment of women. Under this umbrella, Muslim women are clumped together like clones, defined by submissiveness and victimisation, predominantly dominated by various forms of the veil.
Ordaining women cause for debate
A decision by Sudbury's Marie Bouclin to become one of three ordained women as Roman Catholic priests - a move that will put them outside the teachings of the church - brought stern rebuke in some circles.
Catholic Teachers Test Dogma and Discrimination
A Catholic school teacher fired after using in-vitro fertilization is taking her case to Wisconsin's Equal Rights Division. She joins a roster of others penalized by the Catholic school system for their reproductive activities and activism.
Gay and Lesbian
Bois and Grrls
Genderqueer: Straight or gay, these kids refuse to play dress-up by the rules
A condo of one’s own
Lesbian-friendly development designed to build a safe and supportive community
Departing Leader in Fight to End 'Don't Ask' Leaves Powerful Legacy
A salute to Dixon Osburn, who helped popularize the fight to end the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy.
Entertainment
Undercover as a Man
Woman who spent a year disguised as a man is surprised by her findings.
Unorthodox and Sometimes Polarizing, the Incredibly Popular Rosie O'Donnell Will Exit Stage Left
This fall, viewers will say goodbye to Rosie O'Donnell, a woman who, in spite of her unorthodox voice and often polarizing views, remains overwhelmingly popular. So what is it about this social misfit that so attracts the public?
Beyond Books: Oprah Winfrey’s Seal of Approval Goes Presidential
Last week, for the first time, Ms. Winfrey endorsed a political candidate, Senator Barack Obama, Democrat from Illinois. In an interview on “Larry King Live” on CNN, she said she was backing the senator “because I know him personally.”
Hip Hop Profanity, Misogyny and Violence: Blame the Manufacturer
Corporations have been usurping and reshaping Black mass culture for decades -- hip hop is just the latest product line.
The Next Generation
Empowering young girls to see beyond peer pressure
The pressure to look skinny. To have sex. To get good grades. These are some of the concerns girls placed at the top of their list, according to a survey of 100 Monterey County girls conducted by Girls Inc. of the Central Coast.
Sex ed is a special challenge for some parents
"We had biology starting in the seventh grade but nothing about how babies are made," Amirfaiz told me. "Children in our culture are highly protected. There are clear boundaries about what to talk and not talk about."
It is now her responsibility, Amirfaiz says, to be a guide to her children. To discuss what is troublesome to them and make meaning of what they learn at school while holding fast to the values deep in her fiber.
Children's Author Highlights Interracial Family, Multiculturalism
The books of children's author Lisa Dunn-Dern portray an interracial family like her own. Her second book has just been released, and as Mike O'Sullivan reports, the author is expanding her reach through a television project in Ethiopia.
Saudi Embassy reverses course for U.S. Muslim girls
Until this year, the answer from the Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C., was always the same: No.
A group of American Muslim high school girls could not enter the kingdom to make a sacred pilgrimage called Umrah to the holy city of Mecca. No, they could not enter Saudi Arabia, even under the supervision of adult female chaperons.
Current Events
Female candidacies on the rise
2008 is emerging as a potential banner year for female candidates in the House of Representatives, with politically savvy women running in nearly every special election and many early-developing Democratic primaries.
What's a Mother's Worth?
This Mother's Day let's give mothers what they really need: a more secure old age.
Media Matters Report: Women and Minorities Still Invisible In Network News
A report released Monday by watchdog group Media Matters for America documented the continuing lack of women and minorities in prime-time news programs. The three-week study of MSNBC, Fox News, and CNN’s nightly news shows found that hosts and guests are still overwhelmingly male and white. Of the 35 hosts and co-hosts, 29 were men, and all were white, according to the report. Women did not make up at least half of the guests on a single one of the three cable networks, and on some networks they comprised as little as 18 percent.
Amnesty International Increases Support for Abortion Rights
Amnesty International -- a human rights group that had previously remained mostly neutral on abortion -- has released a new policy on sexual and reproductive rights that increases the organization's support for abortion rights. Amnesty recently announced that it will support abortions for victims of sexual violence and for women whose health is endangered by pregnancy. It will also advocate the decriminalization of abortion worldwide. The decision came after two years of discussion with experts and the organization's 2.2 million members.
Bush Issues Pre-Emptive Threat to Veto Pro-Choice Laws
In a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), President Bush made clear his intent to veto any legislation that would improve access to abortion or support stem cell research. "I am concerned that this year Congress may consider legislation that could substantially change federal policies and laws on abortion, and allow taxpayer dollars to be used for the destruction of human life," Bush wrote, according to the Washington Times. "I will veto any legislation that weakens current federal policies and laws on abortion, or that encourages the destruction of human life at any stage."
New Report Ranks Best and Worst Countries for Mothers and Children
In its annual "Mother's Day Report Card," Save the Children this week released a ranking of the best and worst countries for mothers and children. The report is the eighth annual of its kind compiled by the global humanitarian organization. The report considers, among other factors, the risk of maternal mortality, use of modern contraceptives, the presence of skilled attendants during labor, women's income as compared to men's, education for girls, the percentage of underweight children under five, and the participation of women in government. Sweden is ranked the best place to be a mother and Niger falls last. The United States places 26 of 140 countries. Italy provides the best environment for children; Niger and Afghanistan tie for last place.
The Hidden Costs of America's Hypermasculine Culture
How America's fear of femininity is driving some of our worst foreign policy mistakes.
Missing Women Get National Attention
More than two weeks after their disappearance, two missing Warren County women are drawing national attention.
News outlets such as MSNBC broadcast stories Monday about Mary Ellen Walters, 68, and Ada Wasson, 80, who left their retirement home April 19 to go on a shopping trip.
Family members have searched thousands of square miles between Columbus and Carrollton, Ky., where the two women liked to shop at outlet malls.
Men Literally Walk A Mile In Women's Shoes
Walk Raises Awareness, Money For Domestic Violence
Video Premier: Felicity Huffman, Vanessa Williams, Alfre Woodard Teach Us The True Story of Mothers Day
The original Mother's Day was not conceived to sell us stuff we don't need, it was a day started by mothers to bring warfare to an end!
In the Courts
Court rules sex through use of fraud is not rape
A Hampden County man who allegedly tricked his brother's girlfriend into having sex with him by impersonating his sibling in the middle of the night cannot be convicted of rape, the state's highest court ruled yesterday in a controversial decision that affirms the court's long-held view that sex obtained through fraud is no crime.
Irish Teen Wins Right to Travel to England for Abortion
Ireland's High Court ruled yesterday that a pregnant teen carrying a fatally deformed fetus can travel outside the country to obtain an abortion, after the motion was previously defeated by the lower and middle courts. The 17-year-old girl, known as "Miss D," has been in the custody of Ireland’s Health Services Executive (HSE) since February after incidents of abuse by her mother.
Speaker Pelosi Threatens to Sue Bush Over Iraq War Bill
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has announced that she may sue President Bush if he issues a signing statement to change the meaning of a carefully compromised supplemental spending bill for the Iraq War. "We can take the president to court," Speaker Pelosi told a group of liberal bloggers, according to Kid Oakland, who writes for the website dailykos.com.
TX Rescinds HPV Vaccine Mandate; Gov. Perry Still Supports Vaccine Program
During a news conference on Tuesday, Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) announced that he would let HB 1098, which rescinds his order that all girls entering the sixth grade be vaccinated against the human papillomavirus (HPV), become law without his signature. The vaccine, called Gardasil, was approved in June 2006 to prevent cervical cancer and genital warts caused by HPV types 6, 11, 16, and 18. In February, Gov. Perry issued an executive order -- which would have made Texas the first state to mandate HPV vaccination -- that "initiated a national debate" that was "hijacked by politics and posturing," Gov. Perry said on Tuesday.
Women Around the World
Making a public splash in Saudi
A new university for women is opening in Riyadh - yet Saudi Arabia remains a country where women cannot vote, drive, dress as they like or go where they please.
Canada protests ban on women at Saudi exhibition
Saudi organisers of an education exhibition in the conservative kingdom closed a Canadian booth because it was staffed by women, Canada's embassy in Riyadh said on Monday.
They said organisers had said that women would be allowed to staff the booth promoting Canadian universities at a Middle East Education and Training Exhibition in the city of Jeddah last week.
Quota Law Puts More Women in Armenia's Election
A gender quota law for political parties is putting more women on the ballot in the May 12 elections in Armenia, where only seven women serve in Parliament. Observers say women are now playing a wider role in local politics
Will Welshwoman Penelope Fillon become the 'second lady' of France?
France's next "second lady" is likely to be a Welsh mother of five. François Fillon, the politician who is tipped to be chosen as prime minister by the president-elect, Nicolas Sarkozy, is married to a woman who comes from a small village near Abergavenny in the Welsh borders
Banding together, Indian women change their villages
A group of women's collectives in rural India use their newfound wealth to change their communities.
Women-Only Hotels Cause Concern
Establishing women-only hotels is a growing trend across the Kingdom. However, many people express concern that the new phenomena may cause further gender segregation within society.
Voices
Should I tell my daughter about her mother's two abortions?
I'm a single dad with a senior in high school -- does she need to know this secret, and should she hear it from me?
Support for Caretakers Missing From Mother's Day
Even though most U.S. mothers work for pay they often face a myth of women happily at home with the kids. It's a centuries' old story of fiction over fact that will only end when women refuse the role of unpaid caregivers and labor is equal at home.
The joys of the Jane Fonda junket
You know when it's a good week? When Jane Fonda is doing a press tour.
Pope's abortion comments changed by Vatican
The transcript doesn't match his remarks about politicians and excommunication.
Why I won't stay silent anymore
By upholding the ban on "partial-birth" abortion, the Supreme Court has injected rigid Catholic teaching into law. That's a crime against the Constitution and women.
Pocahontas: In Search of Her True Story
Monday (May 14th) marks the 400th anniversary of the first permanent English settlement in the United States. One of the key figures in that history is a young Indian girl named Pocahontas -- the daughter of the Powhatan chief. VOA's Susan Logue reports Pocahontas' story has been told many times, but not always accurately.
Health
Women Primarily Contract HIV from Their Husbands, Study Finds
Worldwide, marital sex is the leading cause of HIV infection in women, according to a new study by researchers at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. The study, published in the June 2007 issue of the American Journal of Public Health, says that men's "inevitable" infidelity across most cultures is now the single greatest HIV risk for women. Moreover, the authors warn that current monogamy and abstinence-based prevention programs are ineffective because infidelity is so deeply culturally-ingrained. Dr. Jennifer S. Hirsch, one of the study's primary authors, said, "This study has direct implications for the types of prevention programs we should be supporting... It renders abstinence impossible and unilateral monogamy ineffective."
Demise of maternity wards is inducing . . . The Baby Scramble
Blaming financial losses and a deluge of patients who previously might have gone to other, now-defunct maternity wards, Jeanes Hospital is closing its obstetrics unit May 31. Chestnut Hill Hospital is reviewing its obstetrics program as well and has not ruled out closure
Childless women fare as well psychologically as mothers at mid-life
For one day each year, motherhood brings flowers, cards and Sunday brunches, but a new University of Florida study asks, how important is it for women’s happiness in midlife whether and when they had children?
Business and Financial
‘Women’s participation can enhance economic growth’
The Women’s Development Ministry should introduce strategies and interventions to improve female participation in value added sectors to enhance Pakistan’s economic growth, Competitiveness Support Fund Chief Executive Officer Arthur Bayhan said on Saturday.
Women to get lifelong protection from dowry
Women harassed for dowry may soon be able to seek redressal at any time during their marriage. The Centre is considering removing the existing limit of seven years after the wedding for registration of cases under the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961.
Michelle Obama's Career Timeout
For the first time in her adult life, Michelle Obama is about to be unemployed.
She never aspired to be a stay-at-home wife or mother. For years she wrestled with the issues that many professional women with families face, chiefly whether to quit her job. Now, that is what Obama, 43, has decided to do. And though she will hardly be homebound, she admits to being conflicted.
A third gender in the workplace
IT'S BECOME a Mother's Day tradition on a par with candy, flowers, and guilt. While advertisers wax poetically about the priceless work of motherhood, economists tally up the paycheck for the services she performs.
One Reason For Pay Gap: Women Don't Ask
Could it be that women are partly to blame for the persistent pay gap between males and females in the work force? Are many of us lame negotiators, afraid to toot our own horns and bring up the taboo subject of money?
Archambeau thinks so.
KeyBank boosting loans to women-owned businesses
Key4Women program made 50 loans in Western New York totaling $33 million
A Beloved Mag's Painful Lessons
What media companies can learn from the rise and fall of the much-beloved teen mag Sassy
Publisher Imprints Women's Voices on Book World
A commercial publisher is trying to break the business mold for marketing books to women by printing titles that are serious and appealing. Their new imprint, Voice, debuted last month with Leslie Bennetts' controversial "The Feminine Mistake."
Science and Technology
Japanese Marketers Target Gamer Girls, Moms
With Mother's Day fast approaching, Tokyo's subways and billboards are plastered with advertisements for chocolate and flowers. But one of the most visible ads, running every few minutes on the TV monitors inside subway cars, suggests that you give your mom Nintendo's portable videogame system and load it with software like Nintendogs, Brain Age or an interactive cookbook called 1000 Recipes.
Bionic parents and techno-children
Author Liza Mundy talks about "designer babies," the "epidemic" of twins, and why assisted reproduction is the world's biggest social experiment.
Meet the space women who never reached space
WHEN trainee astronaut Beatrice "B" Steadman was told 40 years ago her space flight had been stopped, her reaction was immediate. She wanted to punch someone.
She was one of 13 young American woman who smashed social stereotyping to train in secret in the Sixties as part of NASA's struggle to catch the Soviets in the space race.
Yet just days before the group was to take part in spaceflight simulation tests in Florida, their commanders pulled the plug on their mission without explanation.
Sexual Dysfunction Study Designed To Help Women
“Women who have sexual dysfunction should realize this may be a treatable condition, not just a personal problem,” says Thuy-Tien L. Dam, M.D. of the UCSD Department of Family and Preventive Medicine. “Many women don’t know that other women experience this too, and that it might be a diagnosable disorder called Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder or HSDD.”
In Domestic Abuse, Digital Photos Can Say More Than Victims
Providing digital cameras to the police is revolutionizing the prosecution of domestic violence in New York City, according to district attorneys, victim advocates and forensic technicians.
In Queens, the first borough to use the technology, prosecutors say there has been a notable increase in conviction rates since the police there began taking digital photos at domestic violence scenes about five years ago.
Religion
Muslim Women in the Media: Beyond Stereotypes
Post 9/11, coverage of Muslim cultures by Western new media skyrocketed. The media in Europe have latched on to a few examples of unjust behaviour in the Islamic world, branded Islam as a “backwards” and “fundamentalist” religion, especially in its treatment of women. Under this umbrella, Muslim women are clumped together like clones, defined by submissiveness and victimisation, predominantly dominated by various forms of the veil.
Ordaining women cause for debate
A decision by Sudbury's Marie Bouclin to become one of three ordained women as Roman Catholic priests - a move that will put them outside the teachings of the church - brought stern rebuke in some circles.
Catholic Teachers Test Dogma and Discrimination
A Catholic school teacher fired after using in-vitro fertilization is taking her case to Wisconsin's Equal Rights Division. She joins a roster of others penalized by the Catholic school system for their reproductive activities and activism.
Gay and Lesbian
Bois and Grrls
Genderqueer: Straight or gay, these kids refuse to play dress-up by the rules
A condo of one’s own
Lesbian-friendly development designed to build a safe and supportive community
Departing Leader in Fight to End 'Don't Ask' Leaves Powerful Legacy
A salute to Dixon Osburn, who helped popularize the fight to end the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy.
Entertainment
Undercover as a Man
Woman who spent a year disguised as a man is surprised by her findings.
Unorthodox and Sometimes Polarizing, the Incredibly Popular Rosie O'Donnell Will Exit Stage Left
This fall, viewers will say goodbye to Rosie O'Donnell, a woman who, in spite of her unorthodox voice and often polarizing views, remains overwhelmingly popular. So what is it about this social misfit that so attracts the public?
Beyond Books: Oprah Winfrey’s Seal of Approval Goes Presidential
Last week, for the first time, Ms. Winfrey endorsed a political candidate, Senator Barack Obama, Democrat from Illinois. In an interview on “Larry King Live” on CNN, she said she was backing the senator “because I know him personally.”
Hip Hop Profanity, Misogyny and Violence: Blame the Manufacturer
Corporations have been usurping and reshaping Black mass culture for decades -- hip hop is just the latest product line.
The Next Generation
Empowering young girls to see beyond peer pressure
The pressure to look skinny. To have sex. To get good grades. These are some of the concerns girls placed at the top of their list, according to a survey of 100 Monterey County girls conducted by Girls Inc. of the Central Coast.
Sex ed is a special challenge for some parents
"We had biology starting in the seventh grade but nothing about how babies are made," Amirfaiz told me. "Children in our culture are highly protected. There are clear boundaries about what to talk and not talk about."
It is now her responsibility, Amirfaiz says, to be a guide to her children. To discuss what is troublesome to them and make meaning of what they learn at school while holding fast to the values deep in her fiber.
Children's Author Highlights Interracial Family, Multiculturalism
The books of children's author Lisa Dunn-Dern portray an interracial family like her own. Her second book has just been released, and as Mike O'Sullivan reports, the author is expanding her reach through a television project in Ethiopia.
Saudi Embassy reverses course for U.S. Muslim girls
Until this year, the answer from the Saudi Embassy in Washington, D.C., was always the same: No.
A group of American Muslim high school girls could not enter the kingdom to make a sacred pilgrimage called Umrah to the holy city of Mecca. No, they could not enter Saudi Arabia, even under the supervision of adult female chaperons.
