Chinese women over 35 are finding themselves being laid-off frequently and re-hired seldomly, more so than any other group in China. Efforts to form a market economy have simultaneously hurt women in China aged 35 and older that have little skills. They are being fired from factory jobs and turned down for new jobs. Clear […]
In the past decade, girls’ enrollment in school has increased around the world. Girls even outnumber boys in secondary schools in 18 countries, according to a new report by Population Action International. The report also noted that many gender gaps still exist. A total of 51 countries showed evidence of a severe gap between girls […]
The US Supreme Court turned away anti-abortion protesters Monday, attempting to challenge a court-ordered “buffer zone.” The buffer zone limits picketing outside a doctor’s home. The protesters claimed the buffer zone violated their right to free speech. Justice Antonin Scalia said the ruling on the case from a lower court “makes a mockery of First […]
UN Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi held talks last week with the Taliban militia in an attempt to ease the tension between Afghanistan and Iran. The build-up of troops along the Iranian-Afghan border has continued to increase since August, when members of the Taliban killed eight Iranian diplomats while taking control of Mazar-i Sharif in northern […]
The House and Senate agreed to a provision Friday that would mandate federal employee health care plans to cover five widely-used contraception methods. The provision was included in budget negotiation deals and will expand contraceptive coverage for approximately 1.2 million women. Conservative House Republicans promised an attempt to repeal the measure next year. Nita M. […]
Last Friday, three minor league players for the New York Mets were found guilty of gang-raping a girl, then 17 years old, while she was vacationing in Florida. The defendants, eighteen-year-old Jose Brea-Tousand, Natividad Tavarez, and Milton Gonzalez, were charged and convicted of sexual battery from the April assault. Assistant state attorney Steve Levin told […]
A jury is now considering sentencing a Texas woman to life in prison after convicting her on two counts of injury to a child by omission for failing to protect her children from her ex-boyfriend’s murderous rage. Thirty-seven year-old Schwana Patterson’s daughter died from the attack, and her son was badly beaten. Bobby Wayne Woods […]
The national board of the Alpha Chi Omega sorority has agreed to shut down its Colorado State University chapter after the group co-sponsored a vicious, anti-gay float in the school’s homecoming parade. Featuring a hanging scarecrow with the words “I’m gay” painted on its face, the float mocked the recent beating death of Matthew Shepard, […]
A new study conducted by Dr. Walter Kaye of the University of Pittsburgh has found evidence suggesting that bulimia does not result solely from society’s pressure to be thin. Kaye’s research has linked high levels of serotonin in the brain to cases of bulimia in women. In fact, bulimics in the study showed double the […]
Abortion Rights Mobilization (ARM) announced plans Wednesday to test mifepristone (the drug also known as RU 486) on cases of endometrial cancer and on inducing quicker labor in difficult childbirth. The organization has already begun tests on the effectiveness of mifepristone on brain tumors, and has received positive results. ARM believes that use of mifepristone […]
By including a bill that restricts U.S. aid to family planning groups as part of United Nations Debt reform, Congress has crafting a way to restrict U.S. funding of international family planning groups that support countries in liberalizing their abortion laws. However, President Clinton opposes the bill and has promised to veto it. The United […]
Influential leaders of the Texas Commission on a Representative Student Body called for a rise in state spending on financial aid for minority college students today. They requested that a biannual appropriation of $500 million be awarded to students based on need, arguing that diversity in higher education is essential to create a strong economy […]
Associate pastor Mary Ramerman was removed from her job at a Corpus Christi, TX church for violating Vatican rules. Ramerman had served at the church for over a decade, lifting the communion cup and reciting prayers, actions considered violations when performed by women in the liturgy. “My heart’s broken,” said Ramerman, who holds a master’s […]
Nike Inc. has announced plans to raise minimum wages 25 percent for factory workers in Indonesia. The giant shoe manufacturer has received much criticism for its labor practices in Asia. Many Indonesians have been hard-hit by the financial crisis throughout Asia. The monthly minimum raise of 250,000 rupiah, about $23, is much-needed. The preceding government-mandated […]
Robert Rudolph, the North Carolian anti-abortionist charged with the January 1998 bombing of a Birmingham abortion clinic, was charged with three additional bombings yesterday, including the explosion at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and the 1997 bombings of a gay bar in Atlanta and an abortion clinic in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Rudolph is on the FBI’s […]
Thousands of mourners gathered on the west steps of the nation’s Capitol Wednesday to remember the life and death of Matthew Shepard, and to demand that Congress pass stalled federal hate crimes legislation immediately. “We need to send the strongest possible signal as a nation that these crimes will not be tolerated in the United […]
The rate of pregnancy among US teenagers has fallen to the lowest percentage in 20 years, and the number of abortions has also plummeted, according to a study released by the Alan Guttmacher Institute. The teen pregnancy rate was at an all-time high in 1990, with 117 pregnancies per 1,000 girls aged 15 to 19. […]
A report issued by the Research Organization Catalyst predicts that, if the small annual increase in the number of women sitting on Fortune 500 boards does not grow beyond its current rate, women will not achieve gender equity there until the year 2064. Of the 6,064 seats on the boards of the United States’ top […]
The gender gap between girls and boys studying math and science is closing. At the same time, a gap in studying computer science is emerging, according to a study released today by the American Association of University Women (AAUW). “Girls have narrowed some significant gender gaps, but technology is now the new ‘boys club’ in […]
A woman charged with forgery who was unjustly sentenced to prison by a judge who wanted to prevent her from having an abortion was freed on bail yesterday pending an appeal of her case. Yuriko Kawaguchi, a University of California at Berkeley student, was sentenced by Common Pleas Judge Patricia Cleary to six months in […]
