Women's E-News articles from February 2004

Women's E-News archives from February 2004

SCIENCE: MARS MISSION A LANDMARK FOR FEMALE ASTRONOMERS.
February 1, 2004... By Molly M. Ginty NEW YORK, Feb. 1, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) The two recent landings of robotic rovers on Mars are the work, in part, of a new generation of female scientists and engineers. When the second robotic rover, named Opportunity,...

WOMEN IN FILM: WORKS OF 11 FEMALE ARTISTS ARE OSCAR NOMINEES.
February 1, 2004... By Jan Lisa Huttner NEW YORK, Feb. 2, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) The work of 11 female directors and screenwriters have been recognized in the major awards categories in 2004 Oscar race. Nominations for Sofia Coppola's film "Lost in Translation"...

U.S. WOMEN: BIG BUSINESSWOMEN TAP OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY.
February 1, 2004... By Marianne Sullivan NEW YORK, Feb. 3, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) A study of female entrepreneurs with annual business revenue over $1 million finds they arrange credit sources to fund expansions, join business organizations, hire advisors and...

U.S. WOMEN: MARTHA STEWART TRIAL REEKS OF ANTI-DIVA SPITE.
February 1, 2004... By Frances A. McMorris NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) With the charges against Martha Stewart hinging on very technical readings of federal criminal law, the Queen of Domestic Living seems to be attracting an unfair share of...

U.S. MUSIC: HIP-HOP WOMEN STRIDE INTO SPOTLIGHT.
February 1, 2004... By Carla Thompson NEW YORK, Feb. 5, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) As they snap up most of this year's Grammy nominations for hip-hop, female performers are joining an effort by filmmakers and educators to improve the social messages that a powerful...

POLITICS: WOMEN CALL FOR EQUAL REPRESENTATION IN IRAQ.
February 1, 2004... By Ashraf Khalil BAGHDAD, IRAQ, Feb. 6, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Women represent one eighth of Iraq's Governing Council until elections are held later this year. Activists there say without U.S. backed quotas for equal female representation in...

WOMEN'S ISSUES: RAPE NOTES DEEMED PRIVATE; BISHOP BLAMES VICTIMS.
February 1, 2004... By Gloria Jacobs NEW YORK, Feb. 7, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Notes written by a victim's advocate working with the woman who has accused Los Angeles Laker star Kobe Bryant of rape are privileged information, the judge in the case has ruled. ...

LABOR: AFRICA'S FUTURE MAY DEPEND ON WOMEN'S EMPLOYMENT.
February 1, 2004... By Nicole Itano PONDOLAND, SOUTH AFRICA, Feb. 8, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) A young South African woman's income as a rural tour guide is meager. But in so far as it shelters her from pressures to marry early or resort to sex work, research...

U.S.-RIGHTS: GODFATHER OF SOUL ACCUSED OF SPOUSE ABUSE--AGAIN.
February 1, 2004... By Asjylyn Loder NEW YORK, Feb. 9, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) James Brown was arrested for domestic violence two months after women's rights advocates lodged a protest with the prestigious Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, objecting to...

U.S. HEALTH: DELAYS LIKELY FOR EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION.
February 1, 2004... By Cynthia L. Cooper NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) -- Easier access to the morning after pill is unlikely to be approved this month by the Food and Drug Administration. Instead, the agency is likely to delay over-the-counter sales....

EGYPT: MY NAME MEANS PURE, SAYS EGYPTIAN MOTHER-IN-LAW.
February 1, 2004... By Patricia Dunn CAIRO, EGYPT, Feb 10, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Patricia Dunn writes about how her understanding of Safi, her Egyptian mother-in-law, changes when Safi is diagnosed with breast cancer and undergoes a mastectomy. When I...

IRAN: SEX SLAVERY NEW FACE OF OPPRESSION OF WOMEN IN IRAN.
February 1, 2004... Commentary By Sepehrrad and Hughes NEW YORK, Feb. 11, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Twenty-five years ago, the Shah of Iran was overthrown by a diverse set of groups, some of which supported a secular and democratic government. The pro-democracy...

U.S WOMEN: WILL YOU BE MINE (IN A FEW MORE YEARS)?
February 1, 2004... By Asjylyn Loder NEW YORK, Feb. 12, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) -- Husband-hunting advice books create the impression that single women are single-mindedly set on nuptials. But research and statistics show that many women are increasingly choosey...

U.S.: WOMEN IN LOVE PURSUE WEALTH-AND-MARRIAGE CONTRACTS.
February 1, 2004... By Luchina Fisher NEW YORK, Feb. 13, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) While not yet the norm, nuptial contracts and cohabitation agreements are no longer the tool of wealthy men. Increasingly, women are initiating such contracts to safeguard their...

WOMEN'S ISSUES: SUFFRAGISTS ON HBO; ASHCROFT SEEKS ABORTION FILES.
February 1, 2004... By Emma Pearse NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) A female "buddy flick" telling the story of two friends who successfully waged the battle for all U.S. women's right to vote debuts Sunday night on HBO, the cable channel--suffragist...

U.S. WOMEN: TEXAS ADS SHOW THE REAL FACE OF RAPE.
February 1, 2004... By Susan Palmquist EDEN PRAIRIE, MINN., Feb. 15, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) A public-awareness campaign against sexual violence in Texas features victims. "Speak Up. Speak Out." is serving as a national model for combating sexual assault and...

U.S. HEALTH: NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN SNAP UP HEALTH BOOK.
February 1, 2004... By Suzanne Batchelor NEW YORK, Feb. 16, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Native American women are snapping up a health-advice book written, in the tradition of "Our Bodies, Ourselves," by and for them. Editors say interest in the book is fueled by...

INDIA: INDIAN WOMEN SHAKEN INTO ACTION BY EARTHQUAKES.
February 1, 2004... By Ammu Joseph LATUR, INDIA, Feb. 17, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Female survivors of an Indian earthquake over a decade ago rose from the rubble to rebuild their lives, homes and communities. In turn, they reached out to involve women in...

U.S. WOMEN: PROFESSIONALS WHO ARE MOTHERS TAKE A HIT (AGAIN).
February 1, 2004... By Emily Bazelon NEW HAVEN, CONN. , Feb. 18, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Caitlin Flanagan's call for feminists to renew their commitment to social activism in this month's Atlantic Monthly strikes our commentator as worthy. But she flinches at...

U.S.-WOMEN: TWO ACCUSED OF GENITAL MUTILATION.
February 1, 2004... By Megan Costello LOS ANGELES Feb. 19, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Earlier this week, a Southern California couple was arraigned in a Los Angeles federal court on charges of conspiring to circumcise two female minors. Now, the United States...

IRAN: WOMEN IN IRAN TO BOYCOTT ELECTIONS, SEEK OPTIONS.
February 1, 2004... By Dan de Luce TEHRAN, IRAN, Feb. 20, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) With Iran's reformists barred from standing in parliamentary elections today, female leaders are taking stock and looking for options beyond electoral politics to carry on their...

U.S. WOMEN: COLLEGE ATHLETE TELLS OF RAPE; COACH INSULTS HER.
February 1, 2004... By Emma Pearse NEW YORK, Feb. 21, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Katie Hnida, the first woman to score points in a major college football game, broke more than two years of silence and told Sports Illustrated magazine this week that she had been...

AFRICANS IN U.S.: AFRICA-INSPIRED RITES LEAD U.S. PRETEENS TO SAFETY.
February 1, 2004... By Angeli R. Rasbury NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Female preteens of African descent in the United States face a complex set of pressures, including cultural standards of womanhood and sexually explicit media images pressuring...

MEXICAN WOMEN: JUAREZ MARCH HEIGHTENS PRESSURE TO SOLVE MURDERS.
February 1, 2004... By Theresa Braine MEXICO CITY, Feb. 23, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) To tour the best-known spots in this city is to walk into a Stephen King horror novel. Beneath a bland, dusty veneer of box-shaped malls, fast-food logos, foreign factories...

IRAQ: LOCAL WOMEN JOIN HIGH-RISK SECURITY EFFORT.
February 1, 2004... By Ashraf Khalil BAGHDAD, IRAQ, Feb. 24, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Heads turn as the nine-vehicle military convoy rolls, weapons bristling, into the Baghdad neighborhood of Hai al Salaam. The column of armed Humvees and troop trucks has...

U.S.-MEDIA: WOMEN NEED MORE FROM 'MORE' MAGAZINE.
February 1, 2004... Commentary By Sheila Gibbons NEW YORK, Feb. 25, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) -- More Magazine seems ambivalent about its mission to reach the over-40 woman. While daring to portray some women without makeup and Size-8 figures, it peddles advice that...

EGYPTIAN WOMEN: EGYPT'S LEADING FEMINIST UNVEILS HER THOUGHTS.
February 1, 2004... By Ahmed Nassef CAIRO, EGYPT, Feb. 25, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) In an interview with Women's eNews, prominent feminist and human rights activist Nawal El Saadawi discusses the current crisis of Egyptian feminism and the role of progressive...

EGYPT: VAGINA MONOLOGUES STIRS UP CAIRO.
February 1, 2004... By Christopher Walker CAIRO,EGYPT, Feb. 26, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Proceeds of the first public staging of "The Vagina Monologues" in Egypt last week will go toward one of the few battered-women's shelters in the Middle East. The...

U.S. HEALTH: MANUFACTURER PUSHES FOR SPONGE RETURN TO U.S.
February 1, 2004... By Kathleen Nelson NEW YORK, Feb. 26, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS)--The current manufacturer of the contraceptive sponge remains hopeful the popular over-the-counter contraceptive will return to the U.S. market in a matter of months. Gene...

U.S. WOMEN: BLACK WOMEN'S HISTORY GAINING ASCENDANCY.
February 1, 2004... By Luchina Fisher NEW YORK, Feb. 27, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Major research by historians is redefining what we know about the role of black women during slavery and the civil rights era. In part, this research is the result of a rising band...

WOMEN'S ISSUES: CHRONICLE ASSESSES BIAS; 112 SEX ASSAULTS BY MILITARY.
February 1, 2004... By Emma Pearse NEW YORK, Feb. 28, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) -- The San Francisco Chronicle this week says it will become more conscious of its graphic coverage of gender and race groups to ensure that the paper accurately represents the...

U.S. WOMEN: SUFFRAGIST PARADE ATTACKED IN NATION'S CAPITAL.
February 1, 2004... By Louise Bernikow NEW YORK, Feb. 28, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) On March 3, 1913, at least 5,000 advocates of women's suffrage took to the streets of the nation's capital, a city already crowded and abundantly decorated for Woodrow Wilson's...

U.S.-RIGHTS:: DAUGHTER OF JUSTICE BLACKMUN GOES PUBLIC ABOUT ROE.
February 1, 2004... By Cynthia L. Cooper NEW YORK, Feb. 29, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) As Justice Blackmun's archives are about to go public, the daughter of the author of the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade talks about the collection, the hate mail her father...