Researchers at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the Royal College of General Practitioners believe that the slight increase in heart disease and cancer found in current and recent users of oral contraceptives reduces over time after women stop taking them. A 25-year study published in the British Medical Journal revealed that, 10 years or […]
Wahid Nader and Jamal Nasser Aziz were arrested when U.S./Canadian border officials in Niagara Falls, NY found Nader and Mine Betoor of Toronto in Aziz’ car trunk. Betoor was knocked out, imprisoned in a basement for more than two days, and then bound, gagged, and forced into the car trunk by her uncle and husband-to-be […]
MoveOn.org, a grassroots campaign founded in September ’98 by software developers Joan and Wes Blades to encourage Congress to “censure and move on,” rather than to hold an impeachment trial against President Clinton, solicited $10 million in pledges as part of its “We Will Remember” campaign. The campaign’s goal is to oust Congressional members who […]
South African women married in traditional, tribal marriage ceremonies that were not recognized by the government under apartheid now enjoy the legal rights and status bestowed on women in state-sanctioned marriages. In many rural villages and black townships, tribal marriage laws make women the wards of their husbands. Wives are denied all property rights and […]
Two studies recently published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute offer new ways to limit the growth of breast cancer tumors. The first study, conducted by Dr. Andrew W. Cuthbert and colleagues at Brunel University in Uxbridge, U.K., found that adding human chromosome 3 to a line of breast cancer cells brought growth […]
Turkey’s Justice Ministry banned the use of “virginity tests” after repeated objections to the practice made by human rights groups and others. “One must not examine people and then punish them in a way that will offend their feelings of shame or modesty,” read the Justice Ministry’s order. The test, which many conservative Turkish families […]
A recent report argues that the gap between the number of Chinese males and females has approached 20% and continues to increase in China. Research conducted by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and published in Business Weekly indicates that there are now 120 males for every 100 females, up from 113.8 to 100 in […]
Patricia Baird, owner of the Aware Woman Center for Choice clinic in Melbourne, FL, has filed a federal lawsuit against CompuServe and TML Information Services for providing anti-abortion activists with the names and addresses of clinic patients. Anti-abortion activists spy on the clinic daily and record the license plate numbers of cars parked in the […]
After years of negotiations with the U.S. Department of Labor, Texaco Inc. has agreed to pay $3.1 million in a package designed to ensure pay equity for its women employees, who were found to be systematically underpaid as compared to men working in the same or comparable positions. Under the agreement, Texaco has agreed to […]
California Governor Gray Davis (Dem.) announced a new proposal which would require the University of California to admit the top 4% of students who have completed college preparatory courses at all CA high schools. In addition to benefitting students at largely-minority and inner city high schools, the new policy would also benefit students in poorer […]
Former senator Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL) was appointed to a post with the Education Department on Tuesday. As a part-time consultant, Moseley-Braun will organize outreach efforts on school construction issues within the Education Department’s Office of Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs. Moseley-Braun was offered as ambassadorship to New Zealand but declined the offer.
On Monday, Arizona became the first state to boast an all-female line of political succession. Governor Jane Hull, Secretary of State Betsey Bayless, Attorney General Janet Napolitano, Treasurer Carol Springer, and Superintendent of Public Instruction Lisa Graham Keegan were sworn into their positions Monday. Center for the American Woman in Politics statistics show that Arizona […]
Women won a twelve of the fifteen total Grammy nominations for “album of the year,” “record of the year,” and “best new artist” this year. Twenty-three-year-old singer Lauryn Hill topped the list with a whopping ten nominations, including a nod for best producer, an award that has never been claimed by a woman. Nominees for […]
The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) postponed a demonstration slated for December 27 in Peshawar, Pakistan after a man who claiming to be a spokesperson for the Taliban threatened to break the legs of protesters. The man further stated that Taliban laws apply to all Afghans, even those who live in other […]
The government of Sudan has adopted a new dress code that requires women to wear Islamic dress consisting of a headscarf and a robe or dress that covers their arms and legs. Public order police will enforce the new code. “Women who enter Sudan through any ports and entry points should be dressed in a […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton will chair a 10-city teleconference focusing on the impact of proposed Social Security reforms on women. Washington Rep. Jennifer Dunn will co-chair the event, which is available for airing by cable and broadcast TV stations across the country, and syndicated writer Jane Bryant Quinn will moderate. Americans Discuss Social Security (ADSS) is […]
A new study published in the British Medical Journal found that women between the ages of 20 and 44 who had a history of migraine headaches were three times more likely to suffer a ischemic stroke as were those who did not suffer from migraines. Ischemic strokes are caused by blockage of an artery in […]
Osama bin Laden, the notorious global terrorist suspected of masterminding last August’s bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, has denied responsibility for those terrorist attacks, but admitted to “instigating” others to carry out his holy war. TIME magazine quoted bin Laden as saying, “If the instigation for jihad (holy war)… is a considered […]
Newly-elected German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder last week took steps to allow the sale of mifepristone, a safe, non-surgical method of early abortion formerly known as RU-486. Schroeder’s liberal Social Democratic party succeeded the conservative Christian Democrats, led by Helmut Kohl. The Catholic Church harshly condemned Schroeder’s action to allow the distribution of mifepristone and invited […]
The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) released a report which revealed that the number of children, and especially girls, who are unschooled in Afghanistan is increasing, and that the repressive Taliban regime continues to violate a U.N. agreement to stop discrimination against women and girls. According to the report, nearly nine of ten girls and […]
