Although Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson vowed to review the safety of mifepristone, the early abortion pill will likely be difficult to remove from the market, says the Wall Street Journal. The Bush administration cannot remove mifepristone from the market unless it is proven to be unsafe or ineffective. The Food and Drug […]
In the process of staffing the White House, President Bush has redistributed staff income, paying his top level advisors as much as $20,000 more than their Clinton administration counterparts but offering mid to low-level staffers and aides salaries that are far lower than the salaries of Clinton administration employees who held the same positions. Some […]
In one of the shabby houses along the dusty streets of Gulshar, an Afghan settlement on the outskirts of Mash’had in northern Iran, sits 13-year-old Maryam Gholami. She describes her life as an illegal refugee from Afghanistan: “I clean wool from eight in the morning until noon. Then I go to school until 4:30. I […]
Ellen MacArthur became the fastest woman and youngest person to sail around the world single-handed when she placed second in the Vendee Globe yacht race. MacArthur, 24, completed the 25,000 mile voyage in 94 days, and was the one of two female skippers in the race.
Ann Bancroft, 45, and Liv Aresen, 47, are the first women to ski unaided across Antarctica. Their 2,400 mile journey began on November 13, and are expected to complete their voyage early this week, using parasails to ski the last 500 miles to the ice-ship that will take them home. Bancroft, of Minnesota, and Arensen, […]
Conservative leaders are praising President George W. Bush, showing an enthusiasm they have not shown since the first term of Ronald Reagan’s presidency. Groups like the Family Research Council trust Bush to support ultra-conservative policies, asserting that, while they appreciate Bush’s “cooperative style,” it is his position on policy that gives conservative groups hope. Bush’s […]
V-Day, the gala benefit performance of Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues, opened to a sold out crowd of 18,000 at Madison Square Gardens Saturday evening. Actors and musicians, including Jane Fonda (who donated $1 million to the event), Glenn Close, Marisa Tomei, Rosie Perez, Claire Danes, and Queen Latifah, performed the Monologues, raising awareness to […]
Hundreds of members from Feminist Majority Leadership Alliances and community groups took action during the One Million Voices week of reproductive rights activism to support safe, legal, and accessible abortion. The IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance’s One Million Voices events were prominently featured in their campus newspaper. The group celebrated Roe vs. Wade […]
A study published this week by the Congressional General Accounting Office (GAO) reports that because women were not adequately included in clinical trials, women were more adversely affected by drugs that were pulled from the shelves because of severe side effects and health risks. Because of the underrepresentation of women in clinical trials, the affects […]
United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson met with Secretary of State Colin Powell and national security advisor Condoleezza Rice this week in an effort to generate US support for a world conference on racism to be held this summer. The conference would give world leaders an opportunity to address problems such as trafficking of […]
Brandi Blackbear is not the first high-school girl to find herself the subject of a vicious rumor. But she’s probably the first to be suspended for it. It started in December 1999, when Blackbear, then 15, an aspiring writer and bookworm, was reading up on Wicca and drew a pentagram on her hand. Soon after, […]
Pakistan officials are refusing to allow a new crush of Afghan refugees who have fled their homes in search of a safeguard from the Taliban militia that occupies 95 percent of the country. Over 170,000 Afghan refugees have already crossed the border to Pakistan and live in camps without sufficient shelter, drinking water or foodÑhundreds […]
Women from around the nation are on Capitol Hill this week, attending the Women and Social Security Summit and learning the intricacies of Social Security privatization plans. Current Social Security policies already have a disparately negative impact on women, as women receive two thirds of the benefits men do. Privatizing Social Security would only work […]
February 10 at Madison Square Garden, more than 70 of the world’s most celebrated women, including Oprah Winfrey, Queen Latifah, Winona Ryder, Rosie Perez, and Calista Flockhart, will gather on stage for a one-night-only performance of Eve Ensler’s Obie award-winning play, “The Vagina Monologues,” with special musical and dance performances. All proceeds from V-Day 2001 […]
In an 85 to 10 vote, the Virginia House of Delegates passed a resolution that expresses regret for the policies of selective breeding and forced sterilizations in place during much of the 20th century. The resolution, which still requires the approval of the Senate, will express “profound regret over the Commonwealth’s role in the eugenics […]
An initial statement today by White House Chief of Staff Andy Card spelled out the demise of the White House Offices of National AIDS Policy and the Office on the President’s Initiative for One America, an office on race relations opened by President Clinton in 1994 and 1997, respectively. Card said the Domestic Policy Council […]
One day before going to trial, professor Mary Daly agreed to settle her lawsuit against her former employer of 25 years, Boston College. Daly was suing the college for breach of contract after the tenured professor was removed from the faculty without due process. Daly’s ordeal began in 1999 when she refused to admit male […]
Pro-choice groups and women members of Congress condemned the introduction of a bill sponsored by Senator Tim Hutchinson (R-Ark) and Representative David Vitter (R-LA) that would restrict access to mifepristone (formerly known as RU 486). If passed, the bill would severely limit the number of doctors who could prescribe the pill and would impose strict […]
Despite the efforts of the Virginia women State senators who led the battle against the 24-hour waiting period law, the bill passed and Virginia Governor James S. Gilmore (R) has promised to sign it into law, making Virginia the nineteenth state with a 24-hour waiting period law. Abortion rights supporters in the Senate have dubbed […]
Lawmakers in France passed a bill last year that will require an equal number of women and men candidates on nearly all election ballots. The new measure goes further than any other in the world to ensure equal representation of men and women in politics, and is a surprising leap forward, considering French women only […]
