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Women's Lower Status Puts Asia's Future at Risk
The Asia Society survey on women’s status in health, education, economic activity and political leadership urges improvements to ensure the region benefits fully from its underused...
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Women Miss Out on Job Growth
The “mancession” has morphed into the “hecovery,” leaving women workers largely in the dust. The share of adult women who are employed is lower than...
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Moms: 'I Can't Afford to Work'
After factoring in the rising cost of child care, the daily commute and other work-related expenses, a growing number of mothers are figuring out...
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Man v. Food: Representations of Meat and Masculinity
By Mari Kate Mycek While watching Man v. Food, I observed a very interesting relationship between men and non-human animals. The situations I’m going to describe...
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Women Running: Kelly Westlund
Name: Kelly Westlund Candidate for: Ashland (Wisconsin) City Council Interviewed by: Wanda Kolomyjec Why are you running for office? I believe that the...
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Rape Victims Say Military Labels Them 'Crazy'
Women in all branches of the armed forces, including the Coast Guard, have relayed stories that follow a similar pattern — a sexual assault, a...
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Afghans March to Protest Violence Against Women
Members of Afghan Young Women for Change staged a protest march in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul Saturday, denouncing violence against women, according to AFP photographs. Some...
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What Year IS this Anyway?: Musings of an Ex-Catholic as Politicians and Priests Fight over Women’s Reproductive Rights
By Mary Jean Ronan Herzog I am a Mary. I was named after the Blessed Virgin. Born into a Catholic family, as the first daughter...
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Arizona Governor Signs Anti-Abortion Bill
Arizona governor Jan Brewer signed a bill on Thursday that prohibits abortions in the state after 20 weeks. The bill, passed earlier this week by...
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Komen Grants Flowing to Planned Parenthood
Grants from the Susan G. Komen Foundation for the Cure are flowing to Planned Parenthood, as the women’s health organizations seek to rebuild their relationship...
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Tape Shows Teen Being Shocked 31 Times
Andre McCollins is suing the Judge Rotenberg Center for developmentally disabled students, which treated him in part by attaching electrodes to his body and shocking him....
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Uterine Fibroids: Knowing and Trusting the Signs
By Camille Wanliss Ortiz The pain shooting through my lower abdomen felt like it would never end. By the second day, it had gotten so...
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Malawi Swears in First Woman President
Last Saturday Joyce Banda was sworn in as president of Malawi, replacing former president Bingu wa Mutharika after his death. She becomes Africa’s second...
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Female War Veterans More Likely to Become Homeless
Once primarily male veteran problems, homelessness and economic struggles are escalating among female veterans, whose numbers have grown during the past decade of U.S. wars...
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ADOPTING DEPRESSION
By Jennifer Givhan I couldn’t have had post-partum depression. Yet I did. I, a depressed mother. Adoptive mother. Ashamed mother. Heavy with pressure; mercury in...
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CA Prosecutors Detain Juvenile Rape Victim to Help Investigation
Prosecutors in Sacramento, CA have taken the unusual step of detaining an alleged teenage rape victim who has a history of running away, saying she...
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Anti-Gay Marriage Group's Black Strategy Has Long History
By Kenyon Farrow Last week LGBT rights advocates went into a state of shock when Human Rights Campaign (HRC) revealed documents by its arch-nemesis, the...
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The War on Women: A Progressive Man’s View
By Vincent Martin A (self-admitted) conservative male acquaintance recently asked me what the War on Women means. Herein I will attempt to answer him. First, let...