The Ms. Foundation has released its second annual list of the Top Ten Female Role Models of the Year. The list includes athletes, entertainers, activists, a meteorologist, a media mogul, and a space commander. “The Ms. Foundation’s mission is to empower women and girls to control their own lives and influence the world around them. […]
The US Census Bureau released figures today indicating a 25 percent increase in the number of single fathers. In the past three years, the number of single-parent families headed by men has grown from 1.7 million to 2.1 million. The number of single-parent families headed by women is 9.8 million. Several reasons were cited for […]
Women who have suffered human rights violations appeared at a UN mock tribunal last night, the eve of today’s 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Speaking out on issues such as domestic violence, abuse, and the denial of rights that women face every day, the women’s appearance served as a testimony to […]
The Taliban’s actions to protect suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden and human rights violations were denounced by the U.N. Security Council Tuesday with a warning to Afghanistan’s strict militia. The council advised Taliban leaders that they must stop their military campaign against ethnic rivals in Northern Afghanistan, or suffer unspecified consequences. “Afghanistan-based terrorism has become […]
The amount earned by college graduates versus that earned by high school graduates without further education continues to increase. People who hold bachelor’s degrees now earn 76 percent more than their peers without college degrees, reported the Census Bureau this week. The average college graduate made $40,478 in 1997, compared with an average wage of […]
A court in Oregon has banned discrimination against gays and lesbians in the workplace. Gay rights activists have worked towards such a measure for 23 years. The Court of Appeals decided that the health benefits guaranteed to the spouses of married couples would also be granted to the domestic partners of three lesbian employees of […]
Near the end of a list of potentials for Time magazine’s annual Man of the Year award is Hillary Clinton. Every year since 1927, Time has picked “a person who most shook up our world during the previous 12 months,” and called that person their Man of the Year. Kenneth Starr, Bill Gates, Monica Lewinsky, […]
A measure banning certain surgical abortion procedures was ruled unconstitutional and unenforceable by a federal Judge in New Jersey Tuesday. Although abortion rights opponents claim that the measure would only ban late-term abortions, many doctors and abortion rights advocates charge that the ambiguous wording of the ban could intimidate doctors and prevent them from performing […]
The coalition New Century Alliance for Social Security, made up of civil rights, labor and women’s rights groups, has formed to denounce proposals to privatize social security in the United States. “Privatization is pro-market, but it is anti-worker and anti-family,” said Jesse Jackson, President of the Rainbow/Push Coalition. Members of the coalition include John Sweeney, […]
The benefit concert ZPG Rocks Women in Music: 1960 – 1999 is scheduled for January 25, 1999 in Madison Square Garden. The concert will host a compilation of current artists performing with their idols and mentors. Featured artists include Jewel, Paula Cole, Janis Ian Phoebe Snow, Chaka Khan, Helen Reddy, Judy Collins, and other special […]
Working Assets Long Distance, in association with a group called “Censure and Move On,” is providing free phone calls to Congress from today through December 11th, 1998, in the hopes that thousands of concerned citizens will take action and move to stop the presidential impeachment proceedings. 1) Call toll free 1-877-TO-MOVEON (1-877-866-6836) to reach the […]
A brand-new abortion rights ad campaign has hit the billboards, buses, and subways of New York City this month. The campaign, developed by the Pro-Choice Public Education Project (PEP), is aimed at young women between the ages of 16 and 25 who are pro-choice, but not likely to be frequent voters or ardent supporters of […]
Since the merger of Bank America Corp. with NationsBank Corp. in October, the 10 highest-ranking women executives at BankAmerica have either resigned or been demoted, reported the San Francisco Chronicle. Six of the 10 women resigned after losing their assignments to NationsBank executives, and four other women received jobs in the new bank which lowered […]
Sixteen-year-old Lucy Weber reached a settlement with the prestigious Middlesex Prep School in Concord, Mass. after a long dispute over the validity of several anti-Semitic notes she received while attending the school. Weber, whose ancestry is Jewish and Protestant, reported to school officials that she received four notes at school that contained phrases such as […]
The San Diego Supreme Court let stand a fine against a male lawyer who encountered women in the men’s restroom at San Diego’s Jack Murphy Stadium during a 1995 rock concert and attempted to bring a $5.4 million lawsuit against the city for alleged distress brought about by the incident. Bob Glaser claimed the situation […]
In a stunning victory for the Feminist Majority’s “Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan!” campaign, Unocal Corporation has withdrawn its support from plans to build an $8 billion dollar oil pipeline through Afghanistan. The New York Times reported Saturday that low oil prices, pressure from feminist groups, and concern over the Taliban’s harboring of suspected terrorist […]
The percentage of women in higher education has exceeded the number of men for more than a decade, and the disparity is growing. The U.S. Department of Education reported that 8.4 million women, compared to only 6.7 million men, were enrolled in college in the year 1996. The Department projected that, by the year 2007, […]
Virginia Anikwata is fighting to remain in the United States. Forced to undergo female genital mutilation in her home country of Nigeria, Anikwata is seeking asylum to protect her eleven year-old daughter from the same fate. “It [female genital mutilation] produces lifelong pain and suffering and also produces death for many girls subjected to it,” […]
Retirement packages have become a growing concern for aging flight attendants in a profession that was once limited to the young, thin, single, and childless. Lawsuits filed in the 1970s, ’80s, and ’90s drastically changed hiring and firing practices in the airline service industry. No longer are American flight attendants held to strict rules of […]
The number of abortions performed in the United States in 1996 did not increase from 1995 and remained at the lowest level in two decades, the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. Total abortions reported equaled 1,221,585 in 1996. For every 1,000 women aged 15 to 44, 20 had abortions that year. […]
