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…

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One-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…

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Artist 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…

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NASA’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…

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Wisconsin 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…

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Pussy 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…

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ANOTHER 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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