Students Nationwide Celebrated the Anniversary of Roe v. Wade! Feminist Majority Leadership Alliances around the country found many different ways to celebrate the 27th anniversary of Roe v. Wade! The University of Chicago hosted a showing of “Jane: An Abortion Service,” which documents the history of an underground abortion service that started at their campus […]
The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance at Iowa State University recently held a showing of “Shroud of Silence,” the video depicting the lives of Afghani women living under the Taliban regime. There were about 110 people in attendance, with an introduction by Political Science Professor Maryann Fertault.
Brenda McChesney, a student member of the CSU Chico Leadership Alliance will be attending a launch event in San Francisco for the Pro-Choice Education Project’s (PEP) new ad campaign. She will present a talk on how the PEP posters and advertisements help to encourage young women to participate in pro-choice activism. Students in the Sonoma […]
President Clinton, in his final State of the Union address, urged passage by Congress of several women’s measures. Clinton called upon Congress to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act, which is a very modest step toward equal pay for equal work. Clinton also urged increasing the minimum wage by one dollar. Women are sixty-percent of minimum […]
A federal appeals panel ruled that five women who filed a discrimination lawsuit based on Title IX against Louisiana State University can seek unlimited monetary damages damages from the university. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that LSU’s athletic department intentionally violated Title IX, the federal law that requires equal opportunities for male […]
Village leaders across four Afghan provinces demand the return of land they say the Taliban militia seized and accountability for lost tax revenues. A local businessman told reporters, “They want to know what happened to the customs and municipality revenues since the Taliban came. The leaders have reportedly given the Taliban a 15-day ultimatum to […]
Egypt’s Parliament voted today to give women a second option when seeking to divorce their husbands. Women may now file a request for divorce based on incompatibility. Under the current procedure, a woman has to prove that her husband had mistreated her. This procedure is difficult to prove and the ruling usually is against the […]
The Massachusetts Supreme Court has ruled that a 25-foot buffer zone around abortion clinics would not be a violation of First Amendment free speech rights. The state Senate is considering a bill that would bar individuals from a 25-foot zone around building entrances and driveways unless they had business in the building or were public […]
The Senate could pass a version of bankruptcy reform legislation allowing Democrats to offer an amendment by Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) that would bar anti-abortion extremists from discharging any legal judgments against them by filing for bankruptcy. According to one source, Republicans plan to offer two amendments, one of which would require individuals convicted of […]
For the second time in two months, Jordan lawmakers have rejected a draft law that would enact harsher punishment for the practice of ‘honor’ killings of women. If the measure had passed, men convicted of killing female relatives in the name of honor would face the same life-imprisonment punishment as for any other killing. Currently, […]
The United States Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the Justice Department must approve districting changes, regardless of whether they are discriminatory, as long as the change does not leave minority voters more disadvantaged than before. The 5-4 ruling effectively dismantles Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which requires “covered jurisdictions,” those state […]
The Journal of the American Medical Association released a study today found that post-menopausal women who take the hormone combination of estrogen and protesterone could increase their risk of breast cancer. For those women taking the hormone combination their risk of breast cancer rose by 8 percent, nearly double the risk of those who do […]
Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigations are still waiting patiently in the woods near suspected serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph’s home in rural North Carolina. Rudolph was believed to be a follower of the Christian Identity, an anti-abortion, anti-gay, white supremacist group based in the area. Rudolph is suspected in the January 29, 1998 […]
Women in Japan are teaching their daughters that they do not have to endure sexual harassment. Juri Yukita, a sexual harassment lawyer in Japan, said “The atmosphere is really changing, and many women realize now that sexual harassment is against their rights.” Yukita helped to remove Isamu Yokoyama, Governor of Osaka. In December 1999, the […]
President Clinton announced today a plan requesting $27 million to help close the wage-gap between men and women and bolster enforcement of equal-pay laws. To enforce equal pay laws, Clinton is designating $10 million of the $27 million plan for the EEOC to train some 3,000 employers on equal pay laws and fund 1,000 staff […]
An annual survey of college freshman reports that 30 percent who entered college in the Fall of 1999 reported that they frequently felt “overwhelmed.” Thirty-nine percent of the women surveyed reported feeling overwhelmed while nearly half the number of men (20 percent) reported that feeling. The 1999 survey, conducted for 34 consecutive years by the […]
A study by researchers at the Mayo Clinic revealed that the incidence of anorexia nervosa among young women has risen steadily for the last 50 years. The findings were published in a recent issue of the International Journal of Eating Disorders. Researchers analyzed 2,806 medical records between 1935 and 1989 of individuals diagnosed with anorexia […]
At an Iowa news conference, Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush stated that if the FDA approved mifepristone, he “would not be inclined to accept that ruling by the FDA. That’s abortion.” He then reiterated that abortion should be illegal with the exception of rape, incest and saving the live of the mother when questioned […]
One in every three women has beaten, raped or abused according to a global study released Thursday by The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the Center for Health and Gender Equity. Authors stated that their report, Ending Violence Against Women, is the first worldwide analysis of violence against women. The study also reported […]
Advocates for Youth released a study on Wednesday concluding that the federal government should invest more money into sex education programs rather than in abstinence only programs. Their report reveals that “balanced, realistic sexuality education” that includes both abstinence and contraception helps to reduce teen pregnancy. The group is critical of programs that stress abstinence-only […]
