United Airlines has spent over two years trying to overturn San Francisco’s domestic partners ordinance, a law which requires companies doing business with the city to extend full benefits to the domestic partners of its non-married employees, including gay and lesbian partners. United has contended that it is bound by federal mandates alone and thus […]
Women in 20 states are calling for paid medical and maternity leave, improved job training, increased pay and better funding for women entrepreneurs as part of the “Challenge to Secure America’s Economic Future” program, sponsored today by the Center for Policy Alternatives. The program is taking place in statehouses in Massachusetts, Texas, Georgia, Maine, Washington, […]
The Physician Compensation and Production survey found that women doctors still earn significantly less than do male doctors. Women’s pay trailed men’s by tens of thousands, and by more than $100,000 per year in some lucrative, specialized fields. The survey, conducted each year by the Medical Group Management Association, is based on responses from 36,000 […]
DeVry Institute of Technology will host a educational program for high school teachers titled, “Women in Technology” on January 15. The program’s goal is to increase the number of women in high-technology fields by instructing teachers on how they can encourage girls to pursue information technology as a career. Speakers from Hewlett-Packard, Chase Manhattan Bank, […]
The Chinese government has repeatedly and systematically violated the human rights of Tibetan women. Human rights groups have documented cases in which Tibetan women have been sterilized or forced to use contraception against their will, made to undergo abortions, fined or fired from their jobs for exceeding childbirth quotas set by the government, jailed for […]
A new small, translucent, and water resistant estrogen patch that can be worn while bathing has been approved by the FDA and will be available for sale in the U.S. by mid-year. Noven Pharmaceuticals will produce the nickel-sized patch in four different dosages for the treatment of several menopause-related symptoms.
Atlantic-ACM Chief Executive Officer Dr. Judy Reed Smith and MultiMedia Publishing Corp. Vice President of Marketing Ilene Kaminsky have founded an new organization that they hope will serve as a public forum for women professionals in the telecommunications industry. The Telecom Business Women’s Association will soon produce a Web site and newsletter that will give […]
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt, who last year offered $1 million for proof that members of Congress have engaged in adulterous sexual affairs, has revealed the sexual indiscretions of yet another victim. Flynt says he launched this campaign to reveal the “hypocrisy” of impeachment proceedings against Clinton. Last year, Rep. Bob Livingston (Rep.-LA) gave up his […]
An anti-malarial drug called quinacrine which has also been used to sterilize women there was banned by the government. Women’s rights activists in India led the campaign to ban the import, manufacture, sale and distribution of contraceptive pellets made of quinacrine, charging that the World Health Organization says the drug has not been proven safe […]
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected, without comment, two former U.S. military service member’s claims that the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy violated their right to free speech. The “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy forbids military officials from asking about a service member’s sexual orientation, but allows those officers to discharge military service members who do […]
As part of his fiscal 2000 budget, President Clinton has proposed a $44 million, 5-year project to help small businesses provide health insurance for their workers. The program would apply to businesses with under 50 workers that did not provide health insurance to employees in 1997 and 1998. Companies that purchase health insurance through non-profit […]
A study conducted by computing and printing giant Hewlett-Packard and Working Woman magazine found that women’s use of workplace technology is similar to men’s. Seventy-six percent of both women and men in the “Women in Technology” survey stated in interviews that men and women are equally adept are adopting new workplace technologies. “HP and Working […]
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a school sexual harassment case tomorrow that will determine whether schools can be held liable for student-to-student sexual harassment under Title IX, a law which prohibits schools from discriminating on the basis of sex. The Court previously held that schools are liable for sexual harassment committed by teachers. Ten-year-old […]
Lesbian and gay rights leaders in Georgia were angered when two paragraphs describing the persecution of homosexuals by the Nazis were edited out of a 92-page teacher’s guide on the Holocaust. The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust had recommended deleting the paragraphs, which described the Nazi persecution of lesbians and gays, arguing that the text […]
The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the right of anti-abortion group Christ’s Bride Ministries to advertise in Philadelphia’s public transit stations by rejecting, without comment, an appeal from the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA). SEPTA removed a certain poster created by Christ’s Bride Ministries in February 1996, about a month after it the poster first appeared. […]
The University of California San Francisco has announced that it will host two health symposiums in Spring 2000 — one for women and one for teenage girls. State Senator Jackie Speier will discuss “The Politics of Women’s Health in California” in her keynote address for the sixth-annual symposium. Called “Optimizing Your Health for the New […]
A suit filed by Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a women’s clinic, and five doctors against creators of the “Nuremberg Files” Web site began yesterday in Portland. The suit, originally filed in 1995, charges that the Nuremberg Files Web site violates the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE) by inciting violence against abortion […]
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has substantiated complaints of sexual harassment made by six women in a class-action lawsuit against Ford Motor Co. in a Determination issued earlier this week. The six plaintiffs are current or former workers of a Ford Motor Co. assembly plant and a parts factory in the Chicago area. At least […]
Knoxville, Tennessee will soon boast an exciting new tourist attraction — The Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame. The Hall will be housed in a 30,000 square foot building and will include interactive displays and activities created to promote the future success of women’s basketball as well as to honor great athletes from the past and […]
Event production company Encore Productions has sued the right-wing Christian men’s group Promise Keepers for “unfair, deceptive, unmoral, unethical, unscrupulous” and “oppressive” business practices. Encore claims that an employee or ally of Promise Keepers videotaped Encore’s activities at 1998 conferences and then stole its techniques for staging huge stadium revivals that draw large numbers of […]
