Women’s Issues
HPV Vaccine Not Reaching Enough Girls, C.D.C. Says
By SABRINA TAVERNISE,New York Times – The very low vaccination rate for teenage girls against the human papillomavirus — the most common sexually transmitted infection and a principal cause of cervical cancer — did not improve at all from 2011 to 2012, and health officials on Thursday said a survey found that doctors were often failing…
Read MoreNorwegian victim receives jail sentence for reporting rape in Dubai
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/New York Times – DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Norwegian woman who was sentenced to 16 months in jail in Dubai for having sex outside marriage after reporting that she had been raped said Friday that she had decided to speak out in hopes of drawing attention to the risks to outsiders…
Read MoreOne-Third of Women Assaulted by a Partner, Global Report Says
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS – New York Times – In the first major global review of violence against women, a report released Thursday found that 30 percent of women reported having been physically or sexually assaulted by a former or current partner. The head of the World Health Organization, Dr. Margaret Chan, called it “a global…
Read MoreRaising Ms. President Documentary Producers Seeking Funds to Complete Production
By Kathy Groob, Founder ElectWomen – Film director Kiley Parker of Kentucky has been working for three years to film a story about why more women do not run for office and what’s being done to change that. Her documentary film project, Raising Ms. President, speaks directly to the younger generation of women about the…
Read MoreArtist captures the essence of the struggle of women
By Satya Winkelman- Art has played a prominent role in society and influences how we should think. Edouard Manet’s “The Picnic” was the inspiration for me to paint “It’s Been No Picnic”. In Manet’s 1863 oil painting, the women are undressed, and the men clothed, which now seems the norm. Trained as a psychodramatist, I have…
Read MoreNASA’s New Class of Astronauts Gives Parity to Men and Women
By KATIE HILER, New York Times – One flies a fighter jet for the Marines. Another is an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Harvard Medical School. A third is a helicopter pilot for the Army. And the fourth leads the station in American Samoa of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. They are the four women…
Read MoreWisconsin Senate Advances Vaginal Ultrasound Legislation
Feminist Majority – After intense but brief debate, the Wisconsin state Senate approved a bill that could mandate transvaginal ultrasounds before an abortion and impose unnecessary regulations on abortion clinics. The bill, SB 206 [PDF] was approved in a vote of 17 to 15 along party lines. If the bill becomes law, women seeking an abortion…
Read MoreCommemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Equal Pay Act Monday, June 10th
What Is the Equal Pay Act? Equal pay for equal work. The Equal Pay Act of 1963, an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), prohibits employers from paying unequal wages, based on gender. Men and women employed in the same establishment, doing substantially equal work must be paid the same wages. Title VII of the…
Read MorePussy Riot Takes Manhattan, Quietly
By MELENA RYZIK, New York Times – If there is ignominy in being anonymous at the premiere of your own movie, the ladies of Pussy Riot didn’t show it. There they were, without their trademark bright balaclavas, sitting at the back of the Landmark Sunshine Cinema on the Lower East Side on Wednesday evening, awaiting the…
Read MoreANOTHER All Male Panel Holds Hearings on Women’s Reproductive Rights
By Laura Bassett, Huffington Post – An all-male panel of U.S. House lawmakers considered a bill on Thursday that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy across the United States, without exceptions for rape, incest or health of the mother. The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, led by the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Trent…
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