Suzanne Jackson died at age 46 from breast cancer Wednesday. She was often called the most respected rules official in golf. Since 1985, Jackson was a member of the USGA Rules of Golf Committee, and was one of the first three women to officiate a U.S. Open. She was the very first woman rules official […]
Top female law enforcement Chief Carol Mehrling of the Montgomery County police department in Maryland will retire in February. “It’s a loss to women in policing,” said Penny Harrington, director of the Feminist Majority’s National Center for Woman and Policing. “There were only two [female] big-city chiefs – Carol was one, and Beverly Harvard in […]
Women who eat meat cooked very well done may be four times more likely to contract breast cancer than women who eat meat cooked rare or medium, according to findings published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Researchers caution that it is would be premature for anyone to change their eating habits at […]
U.S. labor activists are again raising concerns over apparel and shoe manufacturers’ poor labor practices, with the help of ex-Nike factory worker Julia Esmeralda Pleites. Pleites earned 40 cents an hour making T-shirts for Nike in an El Salvador factory until she was fired for not showing up to work one day. She missed her […]
Lois Farnham and Holly Puterbaugh have been together for over twenty-five years. Still, they have never been able to share the many benefits of marriage because they are lesbians, and the state of Vermont prohibits same-sex couples from marrying. In 1975, the state’s Attorney General, William Sorrell, defined civil marriage as the joining of a […]
A Washington DC grand jury indicted District of Columbia police officer Kenneth L. Nelson yesterday with 42 charges. Nelson repeatedly battered and threatened to kill his wife and tormented his 8-year-old stepson with an extension cord. Nelson’s violence also extended to the family cats, Tigger and Frisky, whom he killed. Despite a court order restricting […]
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif recently revealed his intention to follow in the footsteps of Afghanistan’s Taliban militia by introducing a similar form of strict Islamic rule to Pakistan. In August, Sharif announced his goal to run Pakistan under a system of Islamic Shari’a law, but, for the first time, he has linked his vision […]
Following the lead of similar programs across the U.S., police officials in Northern Virginia’s Fairfax County announced Monday that they will begin offering free cellular phones to high-risk victims of domestic violence. The phones will be programmed to call the police and domestic violence hotlines only. Similar programs are in place in nearby Arlington County, […]
Women athletes in the United States feel cheated by the lack of media coverage on women in sports, according to a survey conducted by the non-profit group Women, Men, and the Media, chaired by Betty Friedan. Over half of the 130 women athletes surveyed were dissatisfied with the amount and quality of coverage their teams […]
The number of violent acts committed by girls has been on a steady rise in the United States for the past decade. Isis Sapp-Grant, a former female gang leader, believes she can help to reduce the trend. Sapp-Grant recalled her days as a female gang leader in New York City, saying, “It made me feel […]
Taliban leaders recently spoke out against Human Rights Watch, a United States-based human rights organization that issued a report accusing the fundamentalist Islamic militia of violent “ethnic cleansing” during their takeover of the Northern Afghanistan city, Mazar-i Sharif, in August. The report, based on interviews with eyewitnesses who fled the massacre, describes an indiscriminate “killing […]
The President’s Commission on the Celebration of Women in American History met this past Thursday and Friday in Washington, DC to formulate recommendations to President Clinton regarding how best to acknowledge and celebrate the roles and accomplishments of women. The celebration will reach out at four levels: national, local, organizational, and popular culture. Representatives from […]
Gay and lesbian rights were improved in the Netherlands Friday when the Dutch Cabinet approved a plan that would allow gay and lesbian couples to adopt children. The plan has secured strong support in parliament, where it will be voted on early next year. The proposal restricts adoptions to Dutch children due to the incongruity […]
New guidelines on osteoporosis have been issued by the National Osteoporosis Foundation. Women, and especially white, post-menopausal women, who have the highest risk for developing the disease, should be routinely tested for osteoporosis starting at age 65. Post-menopausal white women who have at least one risk factor for osteoporosis and are under the age of […]
The extraction of human organs is becoming increasingly common in Afghan refugee camps in Peshawar, according to a report by the Women’s Alliance for Peace and Human Rights in Afghanistan (WAPHA). WAPHA sent a three-member delegation to visit several Afghan refugee camps near Peshawar to collect information on the situation there. The group learned that […]
Japan hold’s second place in international economic power. Women account for half of the nations workforce, but comprise only 0.2 percent of corporate directors in Japan. This statistic is much lower than the United States 11.2 percent and even Britain’s 5 percent. “These are all pathetic numbers,” points out Irene Natividad co-President of the Women […]
Rep. Jennifer Dunn (R-Wash.) announced her candidacy this week to take over Newt Gingrich’s post as speaker of the House of Representatives. Dunn would become the first woman to hold the title if elected. Many have seen Dunn, 57, as the Republican party’s best hope for broadening their appeal to women. “We have an opportunity […]
The approval of Initiative 200 is the second ban on affirmative action to pass in Washington State, with 58 percent of voters in favor of it. The University of Washington has stated that it will cease to consider race or gender as factors in admissions, a practice they have applied since the 1960s. Some public […]
A shot was fired at a federal agent standing at a command post set up to direct the search for bombing suspect Eric Rudolph. The bullet just grazed the agent’s head. An official reported that the agent was “grazed by the shot through the hair on his head” around 8 p.m. Wednesday. He did not […]
The Taliban militia have come to an agreement to allow an United Nations assessment team access to the Bamiyan province in Afghanistan to determine the need for winter food aid. Deep snows throughout Bamiyan province make access to this central region difficult. Winter conditions last year cut off supplies to the region which led to […]
