Last Friday, feminist theologian and professor Mary Daly took Boston College to court making public statements that Daly was “retiring” from her professorship. Daly, who has accused Boston College of engaging in “thug behavior” and “firing a tenured professor,” has also demanded that her employer of 25 years refrain from distributing a course catalog that […]
The Lunelle contraceptive shot was found 100% effective in a large-scale trial of more than 700 U.S. women. U.S. Today reported today that similar trials conducted abroad yielded comparable results “in more than 17,000 women worldwide.” The recent trial was conducted for Phamacia & Upjohn by a group of researchers at the University of Florida […]
Sens. Jim Jeffords (R-VT), Harry Reid (D-NV), and Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) joined super model Waris Dirie in condemning the inhumane practice of female genital mutilation. Dirie, who was born in Somalia and later earned fame through a modeling career, suffered FGM at the age of 5. Dedicated to ending this brutal practice, she is […]
A U.S. Department of Labor report of working conditions at garment shops in San Francisco and Oakland, CA reveals that established shops and closely-monitored shops were more likely than others to obey federal labor laws. Businesses which “effectively monitored” a shop’s compliance with labor laws had a 90% compliance rate. Manufacturers who took at least […]
A spokesperson for Cristine Sanchez, Spain’s best-known woman matador, has announced that Sanchez will retire from her successful career at the age of 27 in protest of her male colleagues’ discriminatory, macho attitudes. Although Sanchez has won obvious recognition from her fans, who often carried her on their shoulders after a bullfighting match, she has […]
A recent Chronicle of Higher Education study of U.S. women’s participation in collegiate sports yielded both positive and negative results. The good news is that more women college students are participating in sports programs. The bad news is that women’s numbers still lag far behind men’s, and that men’s athletic programs still continue to receive […]
The UK armed forces’ ban on gay and lesbian service personnel will be challenged today in the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Former Navy Lieutenant Commander Dun Lustig-Prean, ex-naval rating John Beckett, one-time RAF chief Graeme Grade and ex-RAF nurse Jeannette Smith allege that the military’s ban on gays and lesbians has violated […]
Japan’s lower house of Parliament passed a law which will make it a criminal offense for an adult to have sex with a minor. The measure also outlawed the production, distribution, sale, and possession of child pornography. Currently, Japanese law bans the solicitation of sex for money with children aged 13 or younger. Persons found […]
International cancer experts presented findings from 5 different studies of a controversial treatment for advanced breast cancer at the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s annual meeting yesterday in Atlanta. Preliminary findings from the five studies were released last month, when officials agreed that the findings were sufficiently provocative to warrant their early release. The studies […]
Elizabeth, N.J., will soon lose its last secular hospital. Pending approval from New Jersey’s The Elizabeth General Medical Center and St. Elizabeth Hospital will merge this summer to become Trinitas Hospital, a Catholic facility in which abortions, tubal ligations, vasectomies and contraceptive counseling will not be provided. The Catholic Health Association of the United States […]
Kuwaiti women on Sunday won the right to vote and to run for Parliament. The new decree, issued Sunday by Kuwait’s Cabinet, unfortunately will not apply to this July’s elections. Assuming that the decree will not be opposed and reversed by the incoming Cabinet, women will begin voting in general elections starting in the year […]
A choir of 18 girls sang at the U.K.’s Winchester Cathedral Sunday, ending a 900-year-old tradition in which only men sang there. The new choir will perform in the cathedral once a week. The cathedral has not allowed girls to perform in its boys’ choir, and set up a separate girls’ choir only begrudgingly, after […]
The soccer players who will represent the United States in this summer’s Women’s World Cup have been named. Six of the 20 team members have been veterans of the team since 1991, and 13 won gold medals at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia. Although the average age of team members is only […]
Saudi Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdel Aziz announced Wednesday that the Saudi Arabian government has no intention of revoking its ban on women drivers. Prince Nayef’s half brother, Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz, had spurred rumors that the ban might be revoked during a speech that he delivered last month. Prince Abdullah had […]
The Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel has amended the Defense Department Reauthorization Act to improve the reproductive health services available to military personnel and spouses stationed overseas. The first amendment, introduced to the Subcommittee by Steven Kuykendall (R-CA), would grant federally-funded abortions to women whose pregnancies are the result or incest or rape, or […]
In a blatant disregard for women’s reproductive health, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has prohibited its pharmacists from distribution the PREVEN(TM) Emergency Contraceptive Kit. While the retailer has instructed its pharmacists to refer customers to other sources of the drug, this referral may be “too little, too late” for many women, given that the PREVEN(TM) regimen must […]
After twenty-year-old Rinku Rani Das rejected his proposal of marriage and instead married another man, Dhrubolal Shil became enraged and wanted revenge. He enlisted three of his friends to help him throw acid in the faces of Das and her new husband, badly burning both. Although Shil and two of his accomplices are still at […]
Researchers at the Children’s Hospital in Cambridge, Massachusetts and the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland contend that lesbian and gay teens are more than three times more likely than their heterosexual classmates to attempt suicide. The recent study, published in the analyzed data collected by the Centers for Disease […]
Family planning organizations argue that the Vatican’s recent proclamation condemning the distribution of emergency contraception to Kosovan rape victims was reprehensible and demand a review of the Vatican’s status at the U.N. International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) and other family planning organizations caring for Kosovan refugee women who have been raped by Serbian troops called […]
New Jersey-based Gynetics, Inc., has granted Canada’s Roberts Pharmaceutical Corporation exclusive rights to market their PREVEN(TM) emergency contraceptive kit in Canada for the next 6 years. The PREVEN kit is an FDA-approved product that prevents 75% of pregnancies when used within 72 hours of sex. The kits include instructions, a pregnancy test, and two pills […]
