Researchers are seeking to recruit 22,000 women for a study that will compare the benefits and risks of tamoxifen and raloxifene, two drugs which are believed to reduce an individual’s risk for breast cancer. A study of 13,000 women has already established that tamoxifen can reduce breast cancer risk by one half. However, tamoxifen also […]
Forty-nine women who were denied entry-level, laborer positions with Nevada’s Eagle-Picher Minerals Inc. will share a settlement of $92,471 in back pay. The U.S. Department of Labor helped to negotiate the settlement agreement after the Office of Federal Contract Compliance found that the company had discriminated against qualified female job applicants during a routine review. […]
Carol Blazejowski, basketball star and Vice President and General Manager of the WNBA’s New York Liberty team, has publicly acknowledged her same-sex partner. The disclosure was made May 13 at a media event. In a biographical note released to the media, Blazejowski named her partner, Joyce, and their two children, Lainey and Luke. Her announcement […]
70-year-old grandmother has become Britain’s top private investigator after the Association of British Investigators elected her as its president. She is the third woman to win this honor since the Association was formed in 1931. Rosemary Sorrell says that her matronly, innocent image is an advantage that she uses to gain the trust of criminal […]
The United States Supreme Court yesterday ruled that schools may be held liable for failing to protect students from the sexual harassment of another in certain circumstances, overturning several lower court rulings, which argued that Title IX did not apply to peer harassment. The vote was 5-4, with Justices Kennedy, Rehnquist, Scalia, and Thomas dissenting. […]
A report issued by the National Bioethics Advisory Commission calls on Congress to revoke elements of its ban on using federal funds for embryonic research. In its report, the Commission argues that the possible medical benefits of stem cells, which are found in embryos and early fetuses, outweighs any moral or ethical objections to using […]
Eighteen-year-old Leah Carr lost her valedictorian title as well as her right to attend graduation ceremonies because she is six months pregnant. Carr is a student at Dove Christian Academy, where she held a perfect 4.0 grade point average. The private school is run by the Radcliff First Assembly of God church in Radcliff, Kentucky. […]
Duke University Medical Center researchers contend that women with low cholesterol levels may be twice as likely as women with normal or high cholesterol levels to suffer from depression and anxiety. Researchers studied the personality traits of 121 women aged 18 to 27 and found that 39% of the women with low cholesterol levels were […]
Middlesex Superior Court Judge Martha Sosman ruled that Boston College may distribute class schedules which do not include descriptions of Professor Mary Daly’s courses. The college had refused to include Daly’s descriptions because they were open only to female students. The college had ordered Daly to begin admitting men into her courses this spring after […]
A Japanese doctoral student who alleged that her professor repeated pressured her for sex and punished her when she refused today won a record sexual harassment award of 7.5 million yen ($60,483 U.S. dollars). The case was heard in a district court by presiding Judge Noriyuki Abe. The plaintiff testified that the defendant, an assistant […]
In an effort to help local police officers and prosecutors crack down on rapes committed using “date rape” drugs, the Justice Department has issued an instruction video and book entitled “The Prosecution of Rohypnol and GHB (gamma hydroxybutyrate) Related Sexual Assaults.” Attorney General Janet Reno explained that drug-facilitated rapes are “very difficult for police officers […]
President Clinton announced two new proposals that will help parents to spend more time with their children during a commencement speech he gave Sunday at Grambling State University. Clinton told the crowd, “If you or any American has to choose between being a good parent and successful in your careers, you have paid a terrible […]
Five boys have been charged with repeatedly raping and sodomizing two twin six-year-old girls in and around a Kansas City day-care center. The four 13-year-old boys and an 11-year-old boy are accused of sexually assaulting the girls in the basement of a day care center and in a nearby shed. A juvenile court has charged […]
New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, a life-long supporter of abortion rights, has stated that she plans to a sign a bill that would require unmarried NJ minors to obtain parental consent at least 48 hours before getting an abortion. Whitman’s staff and supporters attest that Whitman intends to continue with her strong supporter of […]
An Islamic cleric ordered that 18-year-old Bedi Begum be buried in mud up to her waist and then flogged 101 times with a bamboo cane as punishment for having premarital sex and inducing an abortion using herbs. She died the next day after the cleric prevented her family from taking her to a doctor. Islamic […]
Denmark has bestowed same-sex couples with most of the legal rights of heterosexual married couples for over ten years. Under a new law passed yesterday, Denmark’s gay and lesbian and citizens may now adopt their partners’ children. Denmark’s gay and lesbian couples are still prohibited from adopting children that are not related to either parent […]
Husniya Jabara is the first Arab woman to be elected to Israel’s Parliament. A native of Taibe, Jabara will represent the leftist Meretz Party, which now holds 10 seats in the Israeli Parliament. In other news, a group of ultra-Orthodox Jews attacked a group of Reform Jews who were participating in a mixed-sex prayer service. […]
In a tremendous victory for lesbian and gay rights, the Canadian Supreme Court today ruled that the Canadian province of Ontario must rewrite its laws to include same-sex couples, arguing that its current definition of “spouse” as a person of the opposite sex is unconstitutional. The case was brought by a Toronto woman who sought […]
Last week, the Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel amended the Defense Department Reauthorization Act to improve the reproductive health services available to military personnel and spouses stationed overseas by granting federally-funded abortions to women whose pregnancies are the result or incest or rape, or are life-threatening. Yesterday, the full Armed Services Committee rejected the […]
In traditional Fijian culture, round, robust figures have long been the standard for beauty. Now new cultural forces, including the introduction of Western television shows, seem to be changing that. A team of researchers from the Eating Disorders Center of Harvard Medical School led by Anne E. Becker recently completed a three-year study of Fijian […]
