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 […]
The U.S. Supreme Court allowed Cincinnati to ban anti-discrimination ordinances protecting the rights of lesbian and gay people yesterday by refusing to hear a challenge to the anti-gay measure. Rather than rule on the case of Equality Foundation of Greater Cincinnati v. Cincinnati, the Court simply decided not to take the case, thus letting stand […]
Representative Carolyn Maloney, (D-NY) spoke out on the lack of childcare options in our country at a news conference last week. Maloney argued that Congress is to blame for not passing quality legislation on childcare issues. “Nearly five million children aged five to 12 are left home alone after school. Fifty-two percent of moms whose […]
The life of a female Afghan journalist was threatened Monday, October 5, at night in Peshawar, Pakistan when two unidentified assailants fired shots at her. The woman, Najeeba Sara Bibi, is associated with both the BBC Pashto Service and the Pashto daily Hewad. Over the past few months she has received repeated threats in the […]
1992, the year of the woman, saw democrats Barbara Boxer, Carol Moseley-Braun, and Patty Murray elected to the Senate. Six years later, all three women are up for re-election and running in very tight races. The press has been flooded with stories on the Clinton scandal, leaving little room to cover candidates and their issues […]
A young woman who counseled ethnic Chinese rape victims was found dead in her Indonesian home from multiple stab wounds and a cut through her throat. New York-based Human Rights Watch demanded an investigation into the murder and requested that the government provide “better protection” for counselors helping victims raped and tortured during the May […]
Social gender biases in Asia have caused working Asian women to suffer greatly during the country’s financial crisis. At a meeting of Pacific Rim leaders, delegates to a conference on women vowed to bring an end to discrimination against women workers and to provide women better job opportunities. “Where poverty reigns, women are poorer than […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Bulgarian business women today as part of a four-day trip to promote women’s rights in Eastern Europe. The first lady acknowledged the women’s efforts at reform, and showed support for those women who are recreating the country’s business culture. “We’re very impressed by the reform effort and the difficult decisions […]
Past studies have suggested that more than 85 percent of women experience symptoms of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and 2 to 10 percent suffer severe symptoms. A new survey has found that many women with PMS were diagnosed incorrectly or ineffectively prescribed before medical protocols were established for diagnosing and treating PMS in 1994. The study […]
“Find the Facts, Know the Truth” will be this year’s theme for the fourth annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered History Month. Executive Director of The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), Joan M. Garry stated, “This year’s theme speaks to the historical exclusion of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from the record […]
Researchers are making progress in their attempts to freeze and thaw women’s eggs. They are hopeful that one day soon women will have the same convenience of freezing their eggs as men have of freezing their sperm. “This problem has befuddled scientists for many years,” said John Buster, a fertility specialist at the Baylor College […]
