Texas Tech Leadership Alliance spoke out against anti-abortion media on their campus last week. After viewing a deceptive anti-choice cartoon in the campus newspaper, the group wrote a Letter to the Editor exposing the misleading information in the cartoon, and expressing the importance of reproductive choice. Good work! For ideas on how to fight anti-choice […]
While mifepristone may be approved at the end of September, the FDA is currently discussing restrictions on the drug’s distribution that may severely limit women’s access to this medical breakthrough. The FDA is reportedly considering onerous and medically unnecessary restrictions that could drastically limit its distribution, possibly even threaten the safety of physicians, and ultimately […]
Production of Louisiana state license plates with the phrase “choose life” have been blocked by Federal District Judge Stanwood Richardson Duval Jr. Judge Duval ruled that the state was violating free speech provisions of the Constitution by producing license plates expressing only one side of the abortion debate. https://feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=2600
Women Immigrants in the City of Buenos Aires, a study released by the Ecumenical Support Service for Immigrants and Refugees, indicates a great disparity between the level of education achieved by women who migrate to Argentina and income received. The study concludes that the “migration process devalued the educational levels and past training of women […]
According to BBC World Service on September 9th, the Constitutional Court of Sudan suspended the women’s work ban upon further investigation of it legality. Governor Majzoub Khalifa of the Khartoum State has argued the women’s work ban decree is legal under Islamic Sharia law. BBC World Service reports that Khalifa has stated that he will […]
Gay rights supporters across the country are protesting today’s premiere of “Dr. Laura” Schlessinger’s television talk show. Schlessinger has repeatedly aired her view that gays, lesbians, and bisexuals are “deviant” and “a biological error.” The Stop Dr. Laura coalition has called for a boycott of the show, urging concerned activists to take action by pressuring […]
A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that a recently developed testosterone patch could improve sexual functioning and pleasure in women who have undergone hysterectomies or oophorectomies. Dr. Jan Shifren and her team reported “significantly greater” levels of sexual activity and pleasure in women who used the testosterone patch, which administers […]
A recent Washington Post poll suggests that the gender gap will prove key in the Virginia Senate election this year, with 49 percent of women favoring Democratic candidate Charles Robb and 37 percent favoring Republican George Allen. Among men, 42 percent favored Robb and 56 percent favored Allen. Many of the women polled stated that […]
This week the Lancet medical journal reported that tamoxifen, a drug that has been used for twenty years to treat breast cancer, poses risks of endometrial cancer or cancer of the womb for women who use it long-term. Yet, Dutch researchers who have observed more than 300 women on tamoxifen conclude “that the benefits of […]
Deputy Director of UNICEF Karin Sham Poo condemned the decree barring women from working in public places. “I feel that is of course extremely unfortunate that the governor of Khartoum has issued this decree. Many of these working women simply have no other options,” adds Sham Poo. The decree was issued just days after Sham […]
In less than 24-hours after issuing threats stating that unveiled women in India’s state of Jammu and Kashmir would be shot in the leg, Lashker-e-Toiba militants fired shots at two women in a local beauty parlor. The owner and two women inside of the parlor located in Lal Chowk were hospitalized for treatment of bullet […]
Shiori Ino, a 21-year old college student, was stabbed to death inside of a Tokyo shopping mall stark daylight by men hired by her former boyfriend. Her death came just four months after she filed police reports that her boyfriend was stalking her. The police department failed to intervene and an internal investigation showed that […]
Mavis Leno, chair of the Feminist Majority Foundation’s Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan, along with her husband Jay Leno and FMF National Coordinator Katherine Spillar, today announced the Back to School Campaign to a large crowd at Ramona High School in Los Angeles. Even at this early stage, the Back to School Campaign […]
Two recent polls reveal that, while the presidential race remains close, Vice President Al Gore is edging closer to victory with a large gender gap that shows women overwhelmingly favoring the Democrat. A Washington Post/ABC News Poll shows that 52 percent of women favor Gore and 38 percent favor Bush; among men, 38 favor Gore […]
A recent University of Pennsylvania study shows that many Catholic hospitals in the U.S. do not prescribe emergency contraception (EC) to rape victims, despite the fact that EC is considered a standard treatment for these women. The survey, published in the September American Journal of Public Health, targeted 27 Catholic hospitals and 30 non-Catholic hospitals. […]
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will implement measures to increase the number of women in the science, engineering, and technology work force, according to a DOE announcement on Sept. 6. Currently, women hold only nine percent of jobs requiring engineering skills and ten percent of those requiring physics. Within the DOE itself, women hold […]
Kenny K. Titcomb, an U.S. Marine based at the Futenma Marine Corps Air Station in Okinawa was found guilty earlier this week by a military court and sentenced to two years in prison for “committing an indecent act, unlawful entry into a residence, drunken driving and underage drinking and disorderly conduct.” Titcomb was charged in […]
The Pakistan-based extremist militia, Lashker-e-Toiba, issued a death threat on Thursday to 22,000 government workers in India’s state of Jammu and Kashmir if they participated in a statewide census. The death threat also included a warning that women who do not wear the “purdah” (veil) while on the streets will be shot in the leg. […]
Some 800 gay and lesbian tourists were ordered to return to the cruise liner Olympic Voyager and denied access to the Turkish ancient ruins of Effuses by Turkish police. According to U.S. Department of State and White House officials, passengers of the Olympic Voyager “were rounded up from their locations ashore, ordered to board their […]
URGENT ALERT! TAKE ACTION! On June 20, the Senate passed (57-42) a hate crimes prevention amendment to the Department of Defense Authorization bill, however the House of Representatives has not agreed to include the amendment in its version of the Department of Defense Authorization bill. In order for the amendment to become law, the House […]
