Cybergrrl’s Femina search engine (http://www.femina.com) has been revised an redesigned to offer users an expanded, more intuitive, and user-friendly method of accessing online information. Femina offers a weekly e-newsletter detailing interesting new Web content, a discussion list for women doing online research, and new topic categories. Cybergrrl Inc. President Aliza Sherman promises that the new […]
In her article published in the New York Times this Sunday, journalist Jan Goodwin wrote of the children who are being abducted by Government and opposition forces for work as soldiers and sex slaves in Sierra Leone’s civil war. Girls and boys as young as 7 or 8 years old make up 40-50% of the […]
British Judge John Peppitt ruled that Kent and Canterbury Hospital was guilty of negligence for failing to refer three women to further treatment when their Pap smears showed slight abnormalities. Compensation for the plaintiffs will be determined in late June. Helen Palmer, Lesley Cannon, and Sandra Penney were later diagnosed with cervical cancer and forced […]
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) will grant actor Whoopi Goldberg its Vanguard award on April 17 in Los Angeles for her positive portrayals of African-American lesbians in films including “The Color Purple” and “Boys on the Side.” A GLAAD spokesperson noted, “On the big screen, this is an almost invisible part of […]
Research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggests that doctors may someday be able to pinpoint which women are at greatest risk for breast cancer by using a simple blood test. Researchers found that women with elevated levels sex hormones testosterone or estradiol were three times more level than those with low or normals […]
Approximately 400 protesters marched past the White House, Justice Department, and U.S. Capital on Monday to protest the February 4 shooting of Amadou Diallo by a New York City police officer. Diallo, a recent immigrant from the West African nation of Guinea, was shot 19 times by four police officers while standing in the entrance […]
Across the state of Massachusetts, more and more women are relying on small-scale farms for their livelihood. Most of the women-owned farms that are popping up across the state are small in scale and feature higher-priced gourmet foods that are likely to bring a good price. For instance, many women raise goats and other small […]
The U.S. Senate acquitted President William Jefferson Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice today after a five-week trial. Democrats voted strictly on party lines. Ten Republican Senators voted with the Democrats on the perjury charge, and five concurred with Democrats on the obstruction of justice charge. Republican Senators Collins (ME), Chafee (RI), Gorton (WA), […]
A Colorado Senate committee has passed a bill that would ban nearly all abortions beyond the 19th week of pregnancy. The only instance in which an abortion would be allowed past the 19th week would be if two doctors certified in writing that the fetus was not viable. The bill allows no exceptions on behalf […]
Increasing number of young North Korean girls and women are being sold into marriage and smuggled into China by families made desperate by years of famine. A South Korean aid worker explained that widespread famine has robbed North Koreans of their resources, and cultural misogyny has led them to view women and girls as inferior […]
Scientists believe that sodium dodecyl sulfate, an detergent commonly found in shampoos and toothpastes, may someday be used to prevent the transmission of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and HPV, the virus that causes cervical cancer. Researchers at Penn State University announced yesterday that sodium dodecyl sulfate is the first topical agent ever proven […]
A Centers for Disease Control report indicates that poor women are more likely than others to suffer unintended pregnancies due to insufficient access to healthcare and family planning services. “Many women with Medicaid coverage during pregnancy lacked comprehensive healthcare coverage before pregnancy and became eligible for Medicaid by being pregnant,” read the report. Researchers noted […]
Italy’s Supreme Court of Appeal in Rome ruled that women who were wearing jeans at the time of their attack cannot claim to have been raped. Judges contended that jeans cannot be removed “without the active help of the person wearing it” as long as wearers fight removal “with all their strength.” Wednesday’s ruling reversed […]
Darmouth College officials announced that they will ban single-sex fraternities on the campus in order to encourage “respectful relations between men and women.” Dartmouth first began accepting women into its student body in 1972. Officials did not make clear whether they would eliminate the fraternities and sororities altogether, or force them to go co-ed. Darmouth […]
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a Virginia state law that bans state employees from using state-owned computers to access pornographic materials on the Internet. Six professors from publicly-funded colleges had challenged the law, charging that it violated their First Amendment right to freedom of speech. Judges rejected their claims, arguing that […]
Two new reports funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Office of Women in Development and issued by the U.S. Census Bureau reveal great disparity between the sexes with regard to health and education. The “Women’s Health in India” study found that Indian women’s life expectancy at 58.6 years is slightly less than men’s, […]
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests that tiny breast lesions made visible through biopsy exams may be a predictor of women’s future risk for breast cancer. Approximately 1 million women undergo biopsies each year. Doctors at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital studied about 1,400 women over 12 years and found […]
Columbus, Ohio’s city council agreed to repeal an ordinance that granted health benefits to domestic partners of its employees after opponents gathered almost 8,500 signatures to force a voter referendum on the issue. Council members chose to repeal the ordinance rather than to risk a referendum because a defeat by voters would prohibit council members […]
The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence will host the 1st Annual National Aerobic Kick-Boxing Marathon: Helping Families Get Fit on May 23,1999. Gyms across the nation are encouraged to participate in the marathon by hosting a three-hour aerobic kick-boxing class in support of NCADV. “The marathon was conceived out of the sense of empowerment and […]
A survey conducted by researchers at the University of Chicago and the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, New Jersey, reveals that forty-three percent of women and thirty-one percent of men have experienced some type of sexual dysfunction. Young, single women and older men were most likely to suffer from sexual dysfunction, which was […]
