Women's E-News articles from April 2003

Women's E-News archives from April 2003

INDUSTRY: WOMEN-OWNED HARD-HAT COMPANIES ARE BOOMING.
April 4, 2003... By Laura Koss-Feder NEW YORK, (Mar. 31) WOMENSENEWS -- More and more women across the nation are starting businesses in fields that have been traditionally dominated by men, including construction, electrical work, engineering,...

HEALTH: INTEREST IN CAMPUS REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS CONFERENCE SOARS.
April 4, 2003... By Frederick Clarkson NEW YORK, (Apr. 1) WOMENSENEWS -- Student activism around war, peace and globalization may grab the headlines. However, campus-based organizing related to feminism and reproductive rights is also dramatically on the...

RIGHTS: AUGUSTA NATIONAL'S REFUSAL TO ADMIT WOMEN MATTERS.
April 4, 2003... By Lisa D. Mickey NEW YORK, (Apr. 2) WOMENSENEWS -- For a month, I wrestled with the question: Why does Augusta National matter to women? I should know because I work in the golf industry. I write about golf and play it. I love the game's...

RELIGION-MEDIA: AZIZAH CELEBRATES MUSLIM AMERICAN WOMEN.
April 4, 2003... By Rebecca G. Dorr NEW YORK, (Apr. 3) WOMENSENEWS -- As a Muslim woman of color, Tayyibah Taylor did not see herself reflected accurately in the magazines, newspapers, TV shows and films that surround her in North America. So, she started...

LABOR: WOMEN IN BUSINESS ASK: ARE WOMEN MORE ETHICAL?
April 4, 2003... By Jeff Lemberg BOSTON, (Apr. 4) WOMENSENEWS -- As the number of women in the top corporate jobs continues to climb, many wonder if the ethical woes that shaped much of last year's financial news will decline in tandem. Some argue...

RIGHTS: SEXUAL ASSAULT PERVASIVE IN MILITARY, EXPERTS SAY.
April 4, 2003... By Marie Tessier NEW YORK (Mar. 30) WOMENSENEWS -- Victim advocates and military health care leaders say that sexual assault remains a pervasive problem for women serving in all branches of the military, including those deployed overseas....

U.S.-GENDER: BURK OPENS HER AUGUSTA NATIONAL PROTEST.
April 11, 2003... By Nancy Cook Lauer TALLAHASSEE, Florida (Apr. 11) WOMENSENEWS -- The war in Iraq notwithstanding, the Masters Tournament begins this week and so does Martha Burk's protest. Burk, in a recent speech here at the Capital Tiger Bay...

KENYA-HEALTH: NEW RITUAL REPLACES FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION.
April 11, 2003... By Fredrick Nzwili NAIROBI, Kenya (Apr. 11) WOMENSENEWS -- Anti-female genital mutilation crusader Julie Maranya tells the story of her circumcision with much resentment. Recollecting bits, vividly, of the day village women elders walked...

U.S.-MEDIA: WOMEN'S VOICES MISSING FROM OPINION PAGES.
April 11, 2003... By Caryl Rivers NEW YORK, (Apr. 11) WOMENSENEWS -- As war dominates the headlines, journalists, scholars and others interested in public policy have noticed a growing silence: the absence of women's voices in the nation's elite media. The...

PAKISTAN: FIRST FEMALE MARSHALS TAKE TO THE SKIES.
April 11, 2003... By Juliette Terzieff KARACHI, Pakistan (Apr. 10) WOMENSENEWS -- Nineteen bold women are going where no Pakistani female has dared go before -- up high in the clouds, armed and specially trained to take on international terrorists who might...

U.S.: EXHIBIT FEATURES WOMEN'S ART FROM 177 NATIONS.
April 11, 2003... By Rebecca Vesely SAN FRANCISCO, (Apr. 11) WOMENSENEWS -- If you asked a woman from every country around the globe, "What does it mean to be a woman?" you might easily get 180 different answers. It is that same eclectic spirit that curator...

U.S.-WOMEN: POWs LIKELY TO ENDURE SEXUAL ASSAULT.
April 11, 2003... By Gretchen Cook NEW YORK, (Apr. 11) WOMENSENEWS -- Fear contorts Army Specialist Shoshana Johnson's face as she is questioned by her Iraqi captors on camera. Torture, starvation, lengthy captivity were just a few of the grim possibilities...

U.S.-MEDIA: MAGAZINES PROMOTE DOMESTIC CHORES AS WOMEN'S WORK.
April 11, 2003... By Darryl McGrath NEW YORK, (Apr. 11) WOMENSNEWS -- Women's magazines continue to promote domestic work as if it were a gender-specific task. Martha Stewart Living has published special editions devoted entirely to clothes-keeping, with...

MEDIA-WOMEN: STORIES FROM THREE REPORTERS WHO COVERED VIETNAM.
April 11, 2003... NEW YORK, (Apr. 11) WOMENSNEWS -- Women's eNews presents three excerpts from "War Torn: Stories of War from the Women Reporters Who Covered Vietnam." The tales inspire sadness, outrage and awe for the journalists who broke the gender barrier in...

U.S.-WOMEN: SINGLE MOMS FIND SUPPORT IN SHARED HOUSEHOLDS.
April 21, 2003... By Victoria Groves NEW YORK, (Apr. 14) WOMENSENEWS - Following her divorce a few years ago, Carmel Sullivan was living in Denver with her young son Cooper. Although the oil painter was financially stable, Sullivan felt isolated as a newly...

WOMEN: MD'S RESIST POLICE REPORTING LAW FOR SPOUSE ABUSE CASES.
April 21, 2003... By Suzanne Batchelor NEW YORK, (Apr. 15) WOMENSENEWS - A recent survey of Colorado physicians about a state law requiring them to report domestic violence injuries shows a low level of compliance by doctors. The surprising results are...

WOMEN-HEALTH: REMOVE THE GAG, SUPPORT SAFE ABORTION IN AFRICA.
April 21, 2003... Commentary By Elizabeth Maguire NEW YORK, (Apr. 16) WOMENSENEWS - Globally, unsafe abortion claims the lives of nearly 70,000 women every year. Nearly half of those deaths and countless related injuries occur in Africa. In Ethiopia alone,...

JAPAN: BATTLERS OF SEX ABUSE CONFRONT CULTURE, LAW.
April 21, 2003... By Suvendrini Kakuchi TOKYO, (Apr. 17) WOMENSENEWS - For seven years, Akiko Yanagishita, 35, endured her husband's sexual violence, verbal taunting and other abuse that included spitting on her to make her feel worthless and ugly. "He...

WOMEN: FUNDING FEMALE-OWNED VENTURES MAKES BUSINESS SENSE.
April 21, 2003... By Laura Koss-Feder NEW YORK, (Apr. 18) WOMENSENEWS - With the current clouds over the economy, investors have good reason to take a closer look at female- and minority-owned ventures, according to Betsy Zeidman, director of the Center for...

LABOR: UTAH TEENS LOBBY EFFORT FOR GENDER-PAY STUDY, PAYS OFF.
April 21, 2003... By Elizabeth Mehren SALT LAKE CITY, (Apr. 13) WOMENSENEWS - They stalked this state's notoriously conservative state legislators, pressing each state senator and representative to talk about the grave disparity in state salaries paid to...

POLITICS: "THE DEADLY DOZEN' ECHO IN ANTI-CHOICE CAMPAIGN.
April 25, 2003... By Dakota Smith NEW YORK, (Apr. 25) WOMENSENEWS -- An advertising and poster campaign attacking pro-choice Catholic senators alarms those who see it as a dangerous echo of the notorious "The Deadly Dozen" anti-choice campaign of 1995. ...

DEVELOPMENT: ROLE OF WOMEN IN NEW IRAQ OF CONCERN.
April 25, 2003... By Gretchen Cook NEW YORK, (Apr. 25) WOMENSENEWS -- Shortly after giving birth, Berivan Dosky was forced to flee her village when Saddam Hussein's forces gassed it in 1991. Another chemical attack confronted Dosky with a Faustian choice:...

LABOR: IT'S ABOUT MORE THAN JUST ADDING BOYS TO A GIRL'S DAY.
April 25, 2003... By Wilson and Galinsky NEW YORK, (Apr. 25) WOMENSENEWS -- Tomorrow is the first-ever Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. The name reflects a shift in emphasis from the enormously successful decade-long program sponsored by the Ms....

RIGHTS: U.N. PACT SINKS ON ISSUE OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN.
April 25, 2003... By Emily Freeburg NEW YORK, (Apr. 24) WOMENSENEWS -- Violence against women -- and what steps nations should take to reduce it -- became the issue that led to a first-ever diplomatic failure at the United Nations Commission on the Status...

INDUSTRY: SEX-SPAM BECOMES MORE PREVALENT, PORNOGRAPHIC.
April 25, 2003... By Dakota Smith NEW YORK, (Apr. 25) WOMENSENEWS -- Toilet peep cams, "girl on girl action," offers for Viagra-type pills: Not only is unsolicited e-mail with adult content spam becoming more prevalent, the e-mails are also increasingly...

POLITICS: BUFFALO TRIES TO HEAL FROM ANTI-CHOICE VIOLENCE.
April 25, 2003... By Darryl McGrath BUFFALO, N.Y. (Apr. 20) WOMENSENEWS -- As this heavily Roman Catholic city celebrates Easter, the high point of the Christian calendar, it is also trying to heal from more than a decade of intense anti-choice actions that...

RIGHTS: EQUAL ACCESS TO ISRAEL'S WESTERN WALL DENIED.
April 25, 2003... NEW YORK, (Apr. 25) WOMENSENEWS -- A 15-year struggle by women's group for equal access to Jerusalem's Western Wall ended in failure this week, when Israel's Supreme Court ordered that women should pray at a site near -- but not in -- the broad...