Representative Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) announced yesterday during a celebratory gathering of senators, representatives, and feminist leaders and supporters that she intends to reintroduce and fight for the passage of an amendment to the constitution that would ensure equal rights for women and men. The Women’s Equality Amendment, which has the same exact wording as the […]
As Women’s History Month draws to a close, women in Congress are reviving efforts to move the web-based National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) to an actual building site along the National Mall in Washington, DC. “We’re half the population. Why can’t we get a museum of our own?” Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) said earlier this […]
Sima Samar, chair of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission and the United Nations Special Envoy to Darfur, will speak at a special forum tomorrow with other women’s rights and human rights leaders to address the US’s failed policies in Afghanistan. Dr. Samar, who is the highest ranked woman official in Afghanistan, will expose the […]
Penn State women’s basketball coach, Rene Portland, who had been accused of discriminating against lesbian players on her team, resigned Wednesday after 27 years coaching the Lady Lions. The announcement comes just a month after Portland and Penn State settled a lawsuit filed by Jennifer Harris, a former player. With help from the National Center […]
In his latest budget proposal, Ohio Governor Ted Strickland (D) has eliminated more than $1 million in state aid that would have been tied to abstinence-only sex education. The funding, which is part of the federal Title V abstinence education grant program, is distributed among states with a high number of children in low-income families […]
The Feminist Majority Foundation’s Choices Campus Program hosted over 375 students at the National Young Women’s Leadership Conference: From Campus to Congress on March 24 and 25. Held at the University of the District of Colombia in Washington DC, the conference provided participants from some 35 states with valuable information regarding leadership, running for office, […]
Today marks the long-awaited opening of the Elizabeth A Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum. The 8,300 square foot center, on the fourth floor of the museum, aims to create a compelling and interactive environment to raise awareness and educate future generations about feminism’s impact on culture. The Center will permanently house […]
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour (R) signed a bill into law yesterday that will outlaw and criminalize all abortions in the event that the US Supreme Court overturns its 1973 decision in Roe v Wade. The bill only allows exceptions if the life of a woman is in jeopardy or if a woman has become pregnant […]
The Feminist Majority Foundation’s National Young Women’s Leadership Conference: From Campus to Congress will start tomorrow, kicking off an exciting weekend of plenary sessions, workshops, and guest speakers. The Campus to Congress Conference will focus on how young women can impact domestic and global issues, including reproductive rights, sweatshops, peace, the environment, the media, and […]
A study conducted by the See Jane program — a project of Geena Davis and Dads and Daughters — found that children’s movies and television programs lack prominent female characters and characters of color. The study, titled “Now You See ‘Em, Now You Don’t: Gender and Racial Disparity in TV for Children,” analyzes the ratio […]
The Court of Criminal Appeal in South Australia cleared the record of a man who had been found guilty by a jury of raping a woman. The 54-year-old defendant allegedly offered to give a woman a ride, then forced her to perform fellatio and have sex with him, according to the woman. The jury found […]
In observance of National Women’s History Month, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) released a statement honoring women who “have contributed to the progress of this country” while celebrating the advances made by women in politics today. She announced that Democratic women Members of Congress are opening the House of Representatives each legislative day […]
Wyoming Republican Senators Mike Enzi and Craig Thomas announced on Monday that President Bush has nominated Wyoming lawyer Richard Honaker to serve as a US District judge. As a state representative, Honaker authored and sponsored legislation in 1991 that would have outlawed abortions in Wyoming except in cases of rape or incest and when a […]
A Polish woman who was denied an abortion, even though her health was jeopardized by the pregnancy, won her case before the European Court of Human Rights. The Court ordered that Poland must pay Alicia Tysiac $52,000 in damages. Tysiac, who is a single mother of three, suffers from a severe eye disease and was […]
Missouri Governor Matt Blunt (R) announced Monday that he will end funding to Planned Parenthood offices for a program that provides free breast and cervical cancer screenings to women. The money that went to the “Show Me Healthy Women” program — a play on the “Show Me” state’s motto — will now go to other […]
The United States is now in the fifth year of its war in Iraq. The war, which began March 19, 2003, has resulted in some 3,200 deaths of US soldiers and some 655,000 deaths in Iraq, according to a Johns Hopkins survey conducted by American and Iraqi epidemiologists. According to the United Nations High Commissioner […]
Iranian women’s rights activists Shadi Sadr and Mahboubeh Abbasgholizadeh were released from jail yesterday. Both women had been arrested with some 30 other activists just before International Women’s Day while protesting the detainment of four jailed women’s rights activists and Iran’s discriminatory laws against women. While the other activists arrested with them were released within […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it will fully fund the Office of Women’s Health in 2007. Earlier this year, an unnamed, high level official leaked that the FDA was considering withholding 30 percent of the Office’s $4 million annual budget, which would have effectively halted any further projects in 2007. The […]
Anti-war protesters across the country and around the world gathered Saturday to mark the four-year anniversary of the war in Iraq. The Washington, DC march, sponsored by A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), assembled at the Lincoln Memorial and crossed the Potomac to rally at the Pentagon. Among the marchers were Iraq […]
A former employee of the University of California – Los Angeles has been awarded over $4 million after winning a sex discrimination case against the Regents of the University of California. The California Supreme Court has also announced that it will not hear the university’s appeal. Janet Conney began working as an assistant clinical professor […]
