Pressed Freedom
5/8/08
Boston Globe: Toni Locy was always a good, tough-nosed journalist, but now a federal judge in Washington, D.C., named Reggie Walton wants to bankrupt her and throw her in jail because she won't give up her sources.
The Fight Stuff
5/9/08
NY Times: Notable in the Indiana and North Carolina primary results and in many recent polls are signs of a change in the gender weather: white men are warming to Hillary Clinton — at least enough to vote for her.
Iraqis allege sex abuse at the British Embassy
5/8/08
Guardian, UK: An Iraqi cleaner and two cooks claim that a culture of sexual harassment, abuse and bullying exists at the British Embassy in Baghdad.
Will Diversity Be Shunned If Couric Leaves CBS?
5/8/08
Contra Costa Times: There has been a lot of talk lately about how CBS will dump Katie Couric, maybe right after the presidential inauguration, maybe sooner, meaning television's exclusive news-anchor club could once again become a diversity-free zone.
Journalism Pioneer Talks About Politics, Race, Herself
5/8/08
Philadelphia Inquirer: Interview with Gwen Ifill, moderator of the PBS show Washington Week and senior correspondent for The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, who is being honored this week for her leadership and achievement in promoting learning opportunities.
TV Guide, Having Just Been Bought, Is Bracing to Be Sold
5/8/08
NY Times: Days after getting new owners and new editors, the long-troubled TV Guide is back on the block.
Obama wins 2 more superdelegates; Clinton keeps campaigning
5/9/08
AP via Yahoo: Hillary Rodham Clinton, defying electoral math stacked against her, is urging supporters to ignore predictions that her White House bid was over. Barack Obama, meanwhile, was reaching out to top Democrats who could help seal a historic nomination well within his grasp.
McCain Does Not Mention Roe During Speech On Judiciary; Advocates Say He Used Coded Language
5/8/08
Medical News Today: Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) failed to mention Roe v. Wade in a speech Tuesday outlining his judicial philosophy, leading abortion-rights advocates to criticize the senator for his lack of "straight talk."
How The Candidates Stand On Sports Issues
5/9/08
USA Today: Sports and public policy have intersected over the last few years in several areas. Some of the most contentious debate has been about the interpretation and enforcement of the athletics aspects of Title IX, the 1972 law that bans sex discrimination at schools that receive federal funds.
U.S. Economic Anxiety Hits Women Harder: Study
5/9/08
Reuters: The U.S. economic downturn has spread personal financial worries far and wide, but women are more worried about paying bills, losing jobs, providing for children and saving for retirement, according to a study released on Thursday.
The Politics of Motherhood, the Capacity for Choice
5/9/08
RH Reality Check: In many societies, to this day, becoming a wife and mother continues to be the only option for women and girls. As a matter of survival, often compounded by societies' claims of cultural and religious identity, women and young girls are pressured and become mothers. In such situations, choice is simply not an issue.
Zimbabwean Makes Case for U.S. Anti-Violence Aid
5/09/08
Women’s eNews: The International Violence Against Women Act would require the U.S. to respond to a critical outbreak of gender violence within 180 days. Zimbabwean Betty Makoni explains why women in her country need the bill to be made into law.
Kenya’s Kazuri Bead Factory Allows Women From Kibera Slum to Build New Lives
5/9/08
Women’s International Perspective: The Kazuri Bead Factory, located in the Nairobi suburb of Karen, is unique in that it is Kenya’s first visitors’ attraction of its kind, created for and by women.
FACTBOX-Key Facts About Myanmar's Constitutional Vote
5/9/08
Reuters: Myanmar's junta urged citizens on Friday to do their duty and vote for an army-drafted constitution, without mentioning the 1.5 million people clinging to survival a week after a devastating cyclone.
Ghana: Women And the 2008 Elections
5/9/08
AllAfrica.com: Women are being locked out of the democratic processes in Ghana, and societies "cannot claim to be committed to the principles and ideals of democracy and the universal values of equality" if groups within are marginalized.
New Moms in Africa Fight Postpartum Depression
5/9/08
RH Reality Check: In many parts of the continent, public health systems are ill-equipped to deal with postpartum depression, which affects a significant number of women after giving birth.
Group Asks Government To End Use Of Birth-Control Patch
5/9/08
AP via Google: A consumer advocacy group petitioned the government Thursday to pull the birth-control patch off the market, calling it far riskier than the pill.
For Helen Hunt, Art Imitates Life
5/9/08
Washington Post: In the movie Helen Hunt created, the one she stars in, wrote and directed, every character is partly a representation of her.
Underground Sport: Saudi Women Shed Veils To Play Basketball
5/9/08
Canadien Press: Saudi Arabia - a Muslim country so conservative that the fledgling women's sports teams that have begun to appear in recent years remain almost entirely underground, far from public scrutiny or religious clerics' eyes.
Zalaznick Adds iVillage To Portfolio
5/8/08
Variety: Lauren Zalaznick is moving up the food chain at NBC Universal. Currently the topper of the conglom’s Bravo and Oxygen cable networks, as well as its green initiative, Zalaznick was named president of all women and lifestyle entertainment nets Wednesday, adding oversight of the iVillage Internet sites to her portfolio.
Democrats Divide By Race, Gender, Class
5/8/08
Reuters: It's now common wisdom that the Democratic candidates battling to be the party's nominee for the November presidential election are closely identified with certain voter segments. A trend that has been chalked up to demographics and campaign tactics -- or mistakes.
Acquittal in Nun’s Killing Provokes Outcry in Brazil
5/8/08
NY Times: Human rights advocates and the Brazilian government on Wednesday sharply criticized the acquittal of a man accused of being behind the murder of an American Roman Catholic nun in the Brazilian Amazon forest.
Magazine Article Sparks Online Reactions
5/7/08
Providence Journal: Two police investigations have been opened in the aftermath of an article in the current issue of Rhode Island Monthly magazine that looks at teen drinking issues. Editor Sarah Francis said that the author of the story, freelance writer Gretchen Voss, was violently threatened on Facebook.
Zimbabwe Police Arrest Pro-Opposition Paper Editor
5/8/08
Reuters via Yahoo: Zimbabwean police arrested the editor of the privately owned weekly The Standard on Thursday over its publication of an opinion piece by a leading opposition politician.
Times Ax Falls On 15 In News Downsizing
5/ 8/08
NY Post : The New York Times is laying off 15 journalists after the company acknowledged it fell short of its goal of getting 100 people to take voluntary buyout packages. The axing is the first-ever mass firing of journalists in the paper's 157-year history.
Pundits Declare the Race Over
5/8/08
NY Times: The conventional wisdom of the elite political pundit class that resides on television has shifted hard, and possibly irretrievably, against Senator Hillary Clinton’s continued viability as a presidential candidate.
Spousal Exceptions: How Has the Role Changed in this Year's Presidential Campaign?
Spring 2008
Dissent Magazine: With the exception of Eleanor Roosevelt, political spouses—which is to say wives—have followed rules that ensured there would be no more Eleanor Roosevelts. But the sexism in this campaign has been a shape-shifter.
The Slump: It's a Guy Thing
5/8/08
BusinessWeek: Men, concentrated in the weakest sectors, are losing jobs in this downturn, while women make gains
Report: Abused Women See Danger in Family Court
5/8/08
Women’s eNews: Family courts traumatize battered women and hand custody to their abusers 37 percent of the time, finds a report released today by the Voices of Women Organizing Project. Latest story in our "Dangerous Trends, Innovative Responses" series.
Perceived as “Dykes, Whores, Bitches”: 1 in 3 Military Women Experience Sexual Abuse
5/8/08
Women’s International Perspective: The greatest danger that military women in Iraq and Afghanistan face is from their male peers and officers. More women there are the victims of sexual assault than of injuries from hazardous military duties.
Colorado: Lesbian Couple Guilty of Trespassing for Sit-In
5/8/08
NY Times: A lesbian couple from Englewood was found guilty of trespassing by a Denver jury, in a case stemming from a brief sit-in they staged on Sept. 24, when the Denver Clerk and Recorder’s Office refused to grant them a marriage license.
China's Family Planning Rules At Issue In US Asylum Cases
5/8/08
Boston Globe: Partners of Chinese women who were forced to have abortions are pressing the Supreme Court to make it easier to get asylum in the United States.
Malaysia Woman Scores Rare Legal Win To Quit Islam
5/8/08
Reuters: A Malaysian religious court granted a woman's wish to formally renounce Islam on Thursday, a decision described by her lawyer as a landmark case that could enable many others to leave the faith.
CBI Busts Racket Which Sent 'Wives' Abroad
5/8/08
Times of India: A well-organised human trafficking racket, which involved sending as many as 100 women to London, Paris and Amsterdam between 2002 and 2005, has been unearthed by the Central Bureau of Investigation in Delhi, India.
Nicaragua: Working for Safety Despite Abortion Ban
5/8/08
RH Reality Check: After more than a hundred years of legally allowing women access to a therapeutic abortion if her life or health was in danger, the Nicaraguan National Assembly banned this procedure in all circumstances and a year later a new Penal Code reaffirmed the ban by the National Assembly.
Namibia: Country Meets Target On Gender Balance
5/8/08
AllAfrica.com: Namibia has become the fourth country within the Southern African Development Community (SADC) to attain the target of 30 percent women representation in the National Assembly, finally fulfilling the quota set by SADC.
Urgent Call On Liberians To Say 'No To Rape'
5/8/08
RunningAfrica.com: A nation-wide campaign against rape, jointly organised by the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) and the Government of Liberia has now been taken to the second largest city, Buchanan, with an urgent call on all Liberians to say, 'No To Rape'.
In the Company of Women
5/8/08
Toronto Star: Females are flexing their entrepreneurial muscles and joining together to build relationships and support each other in their small business ventures
Five Percent Of Breast Tumors May Double In Month
5/8/08
Reuters via Yahoo: Five percent of breast cancer tumors appear to double in size in just over a month, Norwegian researchers said on Thursday in a study underscoring the potential benefits of more frequent screening.
'Invisible' Blockages Hide Women's Heart Attacks: Study
5/8/08
AFP via Yahoo: Women suffer from "atypical" symptoms and "invisible" blood vessel blockages that may explain why they often receive less treatment for heart attacks than men, a study said Tuesday.
Stopping Smoking Cuts Women's Early Death Risk Within 5 Years
5/7/08
AFP: Women who stop smoking greatly reduce their risk of early death and cardiovascular disease just five years after they quit, according to a new study released in the United States.
The Motherhood Melee: An Interview with Amy Richards
5/8/08
RH Reality Check: Third Wave activist/author Amy Richards asserts in her new book, Opting In, which illustrates the infinite variety of ways to be a feminist mother.
Cablevision To Buy Sundance Channel For $496 Million
5/8/08
Reuters: Cablevision Systems Corp said on Wednesday it will buy Robert Redford's Sundance Channel to add the independent film network to its Rainbow Media portfolio of cable movie channels.
Sports Museum of America is where Billie Jean is King
5/8/08
NY Daily News: Amidst the traffic and crush of pedestrians in lower Manhattan is the new Sports Museum of America, with the Billie Jean King International Women's Sports Center wing as the world's only museum exhibit and Hall of Fame dedicated to all women's sports.
Women Racers Driving Side By Side Into History
5/8/08
San Diego Union Tribune: They might never meet on the track, but Ashley Force and Danica Patrick, the hottest names in motorsports these days, are in competition.
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