Women's E-News articles from July 2005

Women's E-News archives from July 2005

WOMEN: FEDS MAY FUND PROGRAMS FOR TEEN DATING VIOLENCE.
July 8, 2005... By Tiare Rath CALIFORNIA, July 8, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) Eighteen and charming, Brad seduced Marcella quickly with his seemingly mature and gentlemanly behavior. No boy had ever introduced himself to her with a handshake and Marcella, who...

SPORTS: TITLE IX FANS BOO NEW LOOPHOLE IN SPORTS LAW.
July 8, 2005... By Lois Elfman July 7, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS)--Title IX defenders are sending the latest "don't mess with success" message to President Bush. Their target: a Department of Education letter and model survey announcing new guidelines for...

POLITICS-KUWAIT: MORE POWER TO THE WOMEN OF KUWAIT.
July 8, 2005... Commentary by Yolonda C. Richardson NEW YORK, July 6, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) Here's to the women of Kuwait! Women in Kuwait, who won the right to vote in May, just achieved another milestone: The country's first female cabinet minister...

AFRICA: BOTSWANA AIDS ORPHAN HOLDS FAMILY'S FOOD BASKET.
July 8, 2005... By Nicole Itano OTSE, Botswana, July 5, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) Music thumped from large, scratchy speakers, courtesy of a popular local DJ. Most of the children laughed and danced, but Mmauwi Marwale, a pixie-faced 8-year-old with a...

POLITICS-U.S.: FEMALE POLITICIANS GET PLUCK AND POWER TRAINING.
July 8, 2005... By Juliette Terzieff BUFFALO, N.Y., July 4, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) Bea Gonzalez never planned to be a politician. The long time Syracuse University administrator was handed a surprise appointment to the Syracuse School Board after a...

COURTS-U.S.: SPECIAL REPORT: O'CONNOR'S LEGACY.
July 8, 2005... By Cynthia L. Cooper NEW YORK, July 3, 2005 WOMENSENEWS -- Justice O'Connor's moderate judicial perspective made her vote critical in many cases. Although Republican of a conservative political background and appointed by President Reagan,...

COURTS-U.S.: LINES DRAWN AS LEADERS REACT TO O'CONNOR RESIGNATION.
July 8, 2005... By Cynthia L. Cooper NEW YORK, July 3, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) -- The surprise announcement Friday by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor that she is stepping down from her seat on the U.S. Supreme Court set off a flurry of activity just before a long...

RIGHTS AND HEALTH: O'CONNOR RETIRES; COURT TO REVISIT CLINIC SAFETY.
July 8, 2005... By Kamelia Angelova NEW YORK, July 2, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) Noted: Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the United States Supreme Court, announced her resignation on Friday after 24 years of service. She will most likely...

WOMEN'S HISTORY: JOAN LITTLE GOES ON TRIAL FOR HER LIFE.
July 8, 2005... By Louise Bernikow-WeNews historian NEW YORK, July 1, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) July 14, 1975. Outside the Raleigh, N.C., courthouse, a huge crowd of supporters sang, chanted and paraded, a national groundswell of support for a 20-year-old black...

POLITICS AND RELIGION: MCGARVEY PUNCHES HOLES IN FALSE PIETY.
July 8, 2005... By Cynthia L. Cooper NEW YORK, July 1, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) Sitting in the den of a church parsonage in southern Georgia with both her tape recorder and an I-Pod voice recorder going, Ayelish McGarvey felt right at home. This, even...

RIGHTS-ECUADOR: ECUADOR WOMEN'S PRISON CALLED HELL ON EARTH.
July 8, 2005... By Robin Hindery NEW YORK, July 1, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) Natania Naylor says she knows the power of faith; it's the only way she made it to hell and back. For Naylor, a 23-year-old exotic dancer from Rahway, N.J., hell was a women's...

RIGHTS-CHILE: CHILE'S NEW SEX-HARASSMENT LAW TAKES OFF.
July 8, 2005... By Jen Ross SANTIAGO, Chile, June 30, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) Giovanna Riveri remembers dreading going to work at the Ministry of Agriculture, where her male boss would sexually harass her daily. She says she felt trapped by the need to make...

MEDIA-EUROPE: EUROPEAN NEWS MEDIA, AKA BASTION OF GENDER BIAS.
July 8, 2005... Commentary by Sheila Gibbons NEW YORK June 29, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) Frustrated by lackluster progress in improving their prospects in media organizations, European female journalists recently demanded that media owners strengthen gender...

U.S.: FEDS MAY FUND PROGRAMS FOR TEEN DATING VIOLENCE.
July 27, 2005... By Tiare Rath NEW YORK, July 8, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) -- Eighteen and charming, Brad seduced Marcella quickly with his seemingly mature and gentlemanly behavior. No boy had ever introduced himself to her with a handshake and Marcella, who was...

U.S.-HEALTH: AFTER HEALTH SCARE, MENOPAUSE TREATMENT MATURES.
July 27, 2005... By Molly M. Ginty NEW YORK, July 10, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS)--The news rattled Marilyn Kentz even more than the hot flashes and mood swings she suffered. "In July 2002, when the Women's Health Initiative found the drugs I was taking for...

BELGIUM: TURKEY'S EU BID RAISES PROFILE OF WOMEN'S RIGHTS.
July 27, 2005... By Meghan Sapp BRUSSELS, July 11, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) Women's rights in Turkey should be monitored annually as part of the country's application to join the European Union, the European Parliament voted overwhelmingly in favor last week...

U.S.-NASA: SHUTTLE COMMANDER TAKES GIANT STEP FOR GENDER.
July 27, 2005... By Molly M. Ginty NEW YORK, July 12, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) - Eileen Collins, the first female commander of a space shuttle, prepares for the Discovery launch, other women--engineers, scientists and geologists--say they are also gaining...

U.S.-HEALTH:'BAD CALCIUM' BELONGS ON HEALTH MENACE LIST.
July 27, 2005... By Katja Hansen NEW YORK, July 13, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) By now we've all heard of breast cancer, but who knows what causes it and a host of other ailments? For a clue, just think of Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell. When she discovered...

U.S.: REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: HOSPITALS TURNS SPOTLIGHT ON REHNQUIST.
July 27, 2005... By Kamelia Angelova NEW YORK, July 14, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) As news spread yesterday that Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has been admitted to hospital late Tuesday night, the spotlight turned on his court record. For those...

U.S.: FOES KEEP PLANNED PARENTHOOD UNDER STEADY ATTACK.
July 27, 2005... By Cynthia L. Cooper NEW YORK, July 15, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) When Planned Parenthood of Waco-Central Texas held its 16th annual "Nobody's Fool" earlier this week, John Pisciotta was there. In a press conference he told reporters that...

U.S.- CHEERS AND JEERS: WIE SCORES A FIRST; AFGHAN GIRLS MARRIED OFF.
July 27, 2005... By Rachel Corbett NEW YORK, July 16, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) - Cheer: Michelle Wie, 15 years old, was the first female to qualify to compete in a national men's U.S. Golf Association event. Wie chose to compete in the men's Amateur Public...

BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA: AFTER GENOCIDE, WOMEN'S WORK IS TO REBUILD.
July 27, 2005... By Mindy Kay Bricker SREBRENICA, July 17, 2005 (WOMENSNEWS) - Tucked in the forest of the Drina Valley, the old rusted and now defunct battery factory here is where the Dutch battalion known as DutchBat was stationed in this United Nations...

JAPAN: TOKYO INSTALLS CAUTION SIGNAL FOR SEX TRAFFIC.
July 27, 2005... By Catherine Makino TOKYO, July 18, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) There are about 10,000 parlors in Japan that offer sex to patrons. Many advertise that they have foreign women by using such names as Filipina Pub, Russian Bar or Thai Delight....

U.S.: O'CONNOR'S TENURE BEGAN ONE HOT SUMMER.
July 27, 2005... By Tanya Melich NEW YORK, July 18, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) On a hot July 15th morning in 1980 in Detroit, 16 Republican women sat around a table with GOP presidential nominee Ronald Reagan and talked about women's issues. This meeting was...

U.S.: NEW YORK'S FEMALE CANDIDATES SKIMP ON SOLIDARITY.
July 27, 2005... By Kamelia Angelova NEW YORK, July 19, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) In this year's crowded New York primaries, Alicka Ampry-Samuel is a typical female candidate. She's short on campaign staff and funds and has no endorsements from other female...

U.S.: SUPREME COURT: O'CONNOR COVERAGE RULED A MEDIA BREAKTHROUGH.
July 27, 2005... By Sheila Gibbons NEW YORK, July 20, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) News coverage of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement announcement was largely respectful, dignified, and in some quarters, even wistful, after the 75-year-old...

U.S.-SUPREME COURT: ACTIVISTS PROTEST ROBERTS, CONFIRMATION LIKELY.
July 27, 2005... By Allison Stevens WASHINGTON, July 21, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) Women's rights advocates wasted no time in organizing angry opposition to John G. Roberts, the conservative jurist named Tuesday night to succeed the court's centrist Justice...

U.S.-AFRICA: BLACK WOMEN SAY RICE'S AFRICA TRIP OVERDUE.
July 27, 2005... By Naomi Abraham NEW YORK, July 22, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visited Africa this week for the first time in her official capacity. For many African Americans and African women, who take pride in Rice's...

U.S.- CHEERS AND JEERS: PLAN B DECISION NEAR; MAMMOGRAMS QUESTIONED.
July 27, 2005... By Kamelia Angelova NEW YORK, July 23, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) Cheers: After months of delay, the Senate approved Lester Crawford to head the Food and Drug Administration on Monday. The breakthrough came after Health and Human Services...

CZECH REPUBLIC-HEALTH: STERILIZED ROMA SAY THEY DID NOT CONSENT.
July 27, 2005... By Dinah A. Spritzer OSTRAVA, July 24, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) Alena Gordova was 21 in 1990 when she was due to have her second child, and her second cesarean. The doctor at Vitkovice Hospital in Ostrava, a Czech city near the Polish...

U.S.-FEDERAL BILL: SEX WORKERS OFFERED SEMINAR ON LAW, SAFETY.
July 27, 2005... By Kristin Bender SAN FRANCISCO, July 25, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) Carol Leigh is a self-described "unrepentant whore" who wrote a book by that name. She also calls herself the dean of academic studies at what she has dubbed "Whore...

U.S.-HEALTH: KENNEDY ONE TO WATCH ON ABORTION.
July 27, 2005... By Cynthia L. Cooper NEW YORK July 26, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) The possible views of Judge John Roberts Jr., the president's nominee to the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court, is not the only concern for abortion rights lawyers. Reproductive...

INDIA-TSUNAMI: MEDIA FORGETS FEMALE FACE OF TSUNAMI.
July 27, 2005... By Deepa Kandaswamy TRICHY, July 27, 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) A Sri Lankan woman who sought refuge in the tsunami shelter was sexually assaulted. The account of this woman and many others with terrible stories to tell were published in the...