Women's E-News articles from July 2003

Women's E-News archives from July 2003

WOMEN'S LIBERTY UNDER ATTACK IN NORTHWEST PAKISTAN.
July 4, 2003... By Juliette Terzieff PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Jun. 30 (WOMENSENEWS) - Nighat Orakzai strode purposefully down the wood-paneled corridors of the Northwest Frontier Province assembly building situated in the heart of this overcrowded dusty border...

IRAQI WOMEN DEBATE FUTURE GOVERNMENT.
July 4, 2003... By Fariba Nawa BAGHDAD, Jul. 1 (WOMENSENEWS) - Yanar Mohammed came back to her homeland after seven years in exile in Canada for a purpose: to lobby for a pluralistic and secular government that puts women on top of its agenda. ...

'REAL WOMEN' ELUDE AD-DRIVEN MAGAZINES.
July 4, 2003... By Sheila Gibbons Jul. 2 (WOMENENEWS) - The company has just turned off the lights at Victoria and turned them on at Lifetime magazine, a brand extension of Lifetime Television, a joint venture of The Hearst Corporation and The Walt Disney...

CATHOLIC PRESSES WOMEN'S CLAIM ON PRIESTHOOD.
July 4, 2003... By Joan Oleck NEW YORK, Jun. 29 (WOMENSENEWS) - On a recent spring evening, a gray-haired, sturdy looking woman with a no-nonsense haircut and sensible shoes performed long-forbidden rites in a candlelit gazebo. In a park adjacent to...

MORE HEALTH RISKS FROM HORMONE REPLACEMENT REPORTED.
July 4, 2003... By Samantha Xu Jun. 28 (WOMENSENEWS) - Of the estimated 3 million women who take combined hormone therapy, about 120,000 of them may have abnormal mammograms solely due to their hormone treatment, reports a new study done by the Women's...

COMMON FEMALE COMPLAINT GAINS MEDICAL ATTENTION.
July 11, 2003... By Kathleen Nelson Jul. 7 (WOMENSENEWS) - Phyllis Mate's intention wasn't initially to tell doctors what to do. But when a support group she helped found transformed itself into an advocacy organization, she began pushing for conferences...

EFFECTS OF TAX CUTS ON SMALL BUSINESSES UNCERTAIN.
July 11, 2003... By Samantha Xu Jul. 8 (WOMENSENEWS) - President Bush's new tax-cut law, the Jobs and Growth Tax Reconciliation Act of 2003, has been well-received by trade groups that represent the approximately 9.1 million U.S. women who own small...

WOMEN ARE CRUCIAL TO IRAQ PEACEMAKING.
July 11, 2003... By Eddie B. Johnson Jul. 9 (WOMENSENEWS) - As each day's tragic headlines make clear, post-Saddam Iraq is still plagued by major security issues and economic deprivation. And evidence is mounting that women's ability to fully enjoy human...

INFERTILITY THERAPY FRAUGHT WITH HEALTH RISKS.
July 11, 2003... By Kathleen Nelson Jul. 10 (WOMENSENEWS)--When the first baby was born on July 25, 1978, by means of in-vitro fertilization, she was hailed as a medical miracle. By now--as that erstwhile baby is nearing 25--more than 1 million babies have...

MOVIE IDOLS SEND STRONG SMOKE SIGNALS TO TEENS.
July 11, 2003... By Suzanne Batchelor Jul. 11 (WOMENSENEWS) - Laws prohibit paid tobacco-product placement in movies and tobacco advertising to children. Nonetheless, Hollywood actors are lighting up so frequently on screen that researchers say it is...

NEW RESEARCH CONFIRMS ALCOHOL IS GENDER-SENSITIVE.
July 11, 2003... By Gretchen Cook Jul. 6 (WOMENSENEWS) - The day she won a prized fellowship from her university, Jean Kirkpatrick went out on a drunk--a decade-long binge that led to terrifying blackouts, a hit-and-run car accident, an attempted suicide...

MINNESOTA ABORTION PATIENTS NOW FACE NEW HURDLES.
July 11, 2003... Jul. 5 (WOMENSENEWS) - Women who have decided to have an abortion in Minnesota must now go through a series of hurdles put in place by a new law called the Women's Right to Know Act. The law, which took affect July 1, requires women who...

CORPORATE LADDER ESPECIALLY SLIPPERY FOR LATINAS.
July 18, 2003... By Laura Koss-Feder Jul 14 (WOMENSENEWS) - While many women face challenges rising in the corporate world, climbing the corporate ladder can be especially difficult for Latinas. Many Hispanic women cannot find appropriate mentors in...

HOUSE NIXES RESTORING $34 MILLION TO UN.
July 18, 2003... By Peggy Simpson WASHINGTON, D.C., Jul 15 (WOMENSENEWS) - By a 216-211 vote, the House of Representatives refused to restore $34 million this week for the U. N. Population Fund, a significant setback in the battle to overturn...

ALL CAN UNITE BEHIND EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION.
July 18, 2003... By Lynn Grefe Jul 16 (WOMENSENEWS) - In a country still wrestling with the issue of abortion 30 years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling making abortion legal, one would think that any and all efforts to enable women to prevent an...

ISRAEL CUTS BENEFITS FOR MOTHERS, HOMEMAKERS.
July 18, 2003... By Joy Pincus NETANYA, Israel, Jul 17 (WOMENSENEWS) - A new economic plan in Israel slashes child allowances, raises health taxes for housewives and increases the retirement age for women by seven years. Last week, a single mother...

ALABAMA MOVES FEMALE PRISONERS AWAY FROM CHILDREN.
July 18, 2003... By Carla Thompson MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jul 18 (WOMENSENEWS) - "Are you going take me to see my mama?" asked a 13-year-old girl, who had often visited her mother, imprisoned in the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Ala., through a...

GEOGRAPHY RULES U.S. WOMEN'S ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE.
July 18, 2003... By Jodi Enda WASHINGTON, Jul 13 (WOMENSENEWS) - Twenty states require insurance companies that provide drug coverage to pay for contraceptives. Half require coverage for Pap smears. Only three states compel insurers to pay for screening...

IN WESTERN STATES, 1 IN 5 WOMEN HAVE BEEN RAPED.
July 18, 2003... By Samantha Xu Jul 12 (WOMENSENEWS) - National statistics on rape indicate that 13.4 percent of women in the U.S. have been forcibly raped sometime during their lifetime, but that percentage is much higher for some states, such as in...

SUIT PRESSES FOR 'GENDER SYMMETRY' IN SHELTERS.
July 25, 2003... By Elizabeth Zwerling LOS ANGELES, Jul. 21 (WOMENSENEWS) - With the backing of one of the nation's largest men's rights groups, a Los Angeles man has filed a sex-discrimination lawsuit against 10 local battered women's shelters for denying...

MALPRACTICE-CAP DEBATE SPOTLIGHTS WOMEN.
July 25, 2003... By Nancy Cook Lauer TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Jul. 22 (WOMENSENEWS) - Depending upon whom you ask, capping "noneconomic damages" in medical-malpractice lawsuits is either good news or bad news for women of limited financial means or those who...

BIRTH-RATE POLICIES WHIP-SAW WOMEN IN PERU.
July 25, 2003... By Alexander C. Sanger Jul. 23 (WOMENSENEWS) - The reproductive lives of Peruvian women are like the shuttlecock in a game of political badminton. On one side of the net is the previous Fujimori government in Peru, which strove to...

STUDY INDICATES JOBLESS ABUSERS MOST APT TO KILL.
July 25, 2003... By Marie Tessier Jul. 24 (WOMENSENEWS) - Scholars from 11 cities have come up with some new answers to an age-old question in the battered women's movement--which abused women are in the most danger? As researchers probed the stories...

HOUSE OKAYS GLOBAL AID ADDRESSING WOMEN'S NEEDS.
July 25, 2003... By Allison Stevens Jul. 25 WASHINGTON (WOMENSENEWS) - Women's rights advocates gave a rare round of applause to the Republican-controlled House of Representatives last week when it passed a mammoth foreign aid initiative that will take...

WOMEN GAIN INCH IN PUSH FOR LAND RIGHTS IN UGANDA.
July 25, 2003... By Nicole Leistikow KAMPALA, Uganda, Jul. 20 (WOMENSENEWS) - "It was 1995 when my husband chased me away from my house," remembers Roseline Ahimbisibwe, a 45-year-old widow and mother of four. "I think it was stress; he had debts." ...

WOMEN MUST REWRITE RULES OF BUSINESS.
July 25, 2003... By Gail Evans Jul. 16 (WOMENSENEWS) - There's only one rule that matters, one rule that I have not seen written in any book, article or Web site. That one rule is: Every woman must always play on the women's team. Why? ...