Women's E-News articles from March 2003

Women's E-News archives from March 2003

WOMEN-MEDIA: "MANKIND" RETURNS TO NEWS PAGES.
March 11, 2003... By Sheila Gibbons NEW YORK, Mar. 11 (WOMENSENEWS) -- Let's call it exclusionary language creep--the re-emergence of masculine words to describe people who may be female or male. Despite years of effort by women's groups, linguists and...

WOMEN: GUN CLUB SPRINGS UP AT MOUNT HOLYOKE.
March 11, 2003... By Elizabeth Mehren S. HADLEY, MASS. Mar. 9 (WOMENSENEWS) -- A holdout for same-sex education even after most of the fabled Seven Sisters went co-ed, Mount Holyoke College always has fostered in its students the absolute certainty that...

WOMEN: ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN WOMEN TALK ABOUT PEACE.
March 11, 2003... By Anat Cohen JERUSALEM, Mar. 11 (WOMENSENEWS) -- Amidst the explosive noise of shootings and bombings in the Middle East, another sound has emerged: The sound, almost unheard, of two women committing their lives to peace. They are...

WOMEN: ASHCROFT CONSTRAINS VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN OFFICE.
March 11, 2003... By Rebecca Vesely NEW YORK, Mar. 10 (WOMENSENEWS) -- Two senior Democratic senators and a coalition of domestic violence advocates are protesting U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's interpretation of a 2002 reauthorization law that they...

WOMEN-POLITICS: WOMEN OF COLOR NOW A MAJORITY IN NEW YORK CITY.
March 11, 2003... By Marieme Daff NEW YORK, Mar. 7 (WOMENSENEWS) -- For the amount of money New York City spends to incarcerate one woman for a year--about $64,000--it could pay full tuition for four women to complete undergraduate degrees at the City...

WOMEN: OLYMPIC ATHLETES CRITICIZE TITLE IX RECOMMENDATIONS.
March 11, 2003... By Jill Filipovic NEW YORK, Mar. 3 (WOMENSENEWS) -- Amidst a flurry of criticism generated after two members of the Commission on Opportunity in Athletics refused to sign proposed changes to Title IX, Education Secretary Rod Paige said...

WOMEN-HEALTH: FORCED STERILIZATION IN SLOVAKIA.
March 11, 2003... By Asjylyn Loder NEW YORK, Mar. 4 (WOMENSENEWS) -- Romani women in eastern Slovakia have been subject to at least 110 forced and coerced sterilizations in government health care facilities since the fall of communism in 1989, according to...

WOMEN: U.S. FOREIGN POLICY FLOUTS GENDER EQUITY LAWS.
March 11, 2003... By Ritu Sharma NEW YORK, Mar. 5 (WOMENSENEWS) -- Getting more women into foreign policy is crucial to global human security, especially now with current U.S. foreign policy being driven by leaders bent on pursuing war. Women can increase...

WOMEN-RIGHTS: NEW KIDNAPPING LAW MAY SNARE BATTERED WOMEN.
March 11, 2003... By Rebecca Vesely SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 6 (WOMENSENEWS) -- A landmark California law meant to stop international parental kidnappings is under fire from domestic violence experts who say it puts battered immigrant women at a disadvantage in...

WOMEN-FINANCE: EXPERTS QUESTION WISDOM OF MICRO-CREDIT FOR WOMEN.
March 11, 2003... By Barbara Crossette NEW YORK, Mar. 2 (WOMENSENEWS) -- A quarter century ago, when poverty was most commonly defined strictly by low income, a bold idea took off in Asia. It was called micro-credit. The premise was simple: Provide very...

WOMEN: ASHCROFT DOWNGRADES OFFICE ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN.
March 14, 2003... By Rebecca Vesely NEW YORK, (Mar. 10) WOMENSENEWS -- Two senior Democratic senators and a coalition of domestic violence advocates are protesting U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft's interpretation of a 2002 reauthorization law that they...

WOMEN: ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN WOMEN TALK ABOUT PEACE.
March 14, 2003... By Anat Cohen JERUSALEM, (Mar. 11) WOMENSENEWS -- Amidst the explosive noise of shootings and bombings in the Middle East, another sound has emerged: The sound, almost unheard, of two women committing their lives to peace. They are...

MEDIA-WOMEN: MANKIND, OTHER TERMS, RETURN TO NEWS PAGES.
March 14, 2003... By Sheila Gibbons NEW YORK, (Mar. 11) WOMENSENEWS -- Let's call it exclusionary language creep--the re-emergence of masculine words to describe people who may be female or male. Despite years of effort by women's groups, linguists and...

WOMEN-HEALTH: LESBIANS FACE UNIQUE SET OF AIDS RISKS.
March 14, 2003... By Chris Lombardi NEW YORK, (Mar. 13) WOMENSENEWS -- Two recent studies suggest that lesbian and bisexual women may not be receiving appropriate messages about how to protect themselves against HIV. In a four-year ethnographic survey...

WOMEN: LOSING GROUND FOR PUBLIC OFFICE POSITIONS.
March 14, 2003... By Peggy Simpson WASHINGTON, D.C. (Mar. 14) WOMENSENEWS -- Thirty years into the women's political movement, there is a worrisome drop-off in the number of women running for office. Strategies to usher more women into the political...

WOMEN: GUN CLUB SPRINGS UP AT MOUNT HOLYOKE.
March 14, 2003... By Elizabeth Mehren S. HADLEY, Mass. (Mar. 9) WOMENSENEWS -- A holdout for same-sex education even after most of the fabled Seven Sisters went co-ed, Mount Holyoke College always has fostered in its students the absolute certainty that...

WOMEN-LABOR: UNIVERSITY ACCUSED OF SALARY DISCRIMINATION.
March 14, 2003... NEW YORK (Mar. 8) WOMENSENEWS -- Columbia University is being charged with discriminatory hiring, promotions and pay patterns by someone who is in the position to know. Zenobia White-Farrell, the former acting director of Columbia's Office...

WOMEN: COLLEGE STUDENTS REACT TO HISTORY OF THE PILL.
March 14, 2003... By Cristina Silva NEW YORK (Feb. 28) WOMENSENEWS -- On screen, Anita Fream, a woman who appears to be in her early 50s, narrows her eyes and broadens her shoulders as she confesses, "for the first time in my life I could think about sex...

WOMEN: LEENA MOIN TELLS PAKISTANI CRICKET FANS THE SCORE.
March 14, 2003... By Juliette Terzieff ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (Mar. 3) WOMENSENEWS -- At 5, Leena Moin sat watching cricket matches with her father. At 8, she saw her first live match: Pakistan versus its long-time rival, India. A year later the willful...

RIGHTS: FEMALE PRISONERS SUE STATE FOR GUARDS' SEX ABUSE.
March 21, 2003... By Ginger Adams Otis NEW YORK, Mar. 17 (WOMENSENEWS) -- Fifteen female inmates in New York prisons have filed a lawsuit against the state, claiming that male guards routinely sexually abused them -- and that authorities within the state's...

POLITICS: REPUBLICAN PARTY DONATES TO RIGHT TO LIFE.
March 21, 2003... By Cynthia L. Cooper NEW YORK, Mar. 18 (WOMENSENEWS) -- The National Right to Life Committee, once dedicated solely to overturning Roe v. Wade, has made defeating campaign reform laws of equal importance as ending legal abortion....

POLITICS: GOP ON COLLISION COURSE WITH MAJORITY OF VOTERS.
March 21, 2003... By Jennifer Blei Stockman NEW YORK, Mar. 19 (WOMENSENEWS) -- Today, much of the nation is focused on the uncertain outcome of a war with Iraq. I share those anxieties and am also increasingly concerned by the course of the Republican...

HEALTH: FEMALE SEXUAL DYSFUNCTION DIAGNOSIS QUESTIONED.
March 21, 2003... By Suzanne Batchelor NEW YORK, Mar. 20 (WOMENSENEWS) -- "I knew something had changed dramatically when I had my daughter," says Lillian Arleque of her 1975 childbirth. "There was no sexual desire. No sexual response and, prior to that,...

HEALTH: ELDERLY WOMEN WILL BEAR BRUNT OF MEDICAID CUTS.
March 21, 2003... By Rebecca Vesely SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 21 (WOMENSENEWS) -- As states slash health services to make up for record budget shortfalls, one group will shoulder a disproportionate part of the burden: elderly women. Two-thirds of states plan...

U.S.-POLITICS: ANTI-CHOICE GROUP FIGHTS CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM.
March 21, 2003... By Cynthia L. Cooper NEW YORK, Mar. 16 (WOMENSENEWS) -- The television commercial run by the National Right to Life Committee in Michigan didn't tell viewers how to vote in the U.S. Senate election in 2000. It did tell them to call and...

HEALTH: MED STUDENTS DO PELVIC EXAMS ON UNCONSCIOUS WOMEN.
March 21, 2003... NEW YORK, Mar. 15 (WOMENSENEWS) -- Medical schools are performing pelvic exams on unconscious women without explicit consent, reported the Wall Street Journal. The Journal cited three recent studies published in medical journals that...

WOMEN-HEALTH: MORE WOMEN CHOOSING C-SECTIONS, DESPITE RISKS.
March 28, 2003... By Katrina Woznicki NEW YORK, (Mar. 28) WOMENSENEWS -- A growing number of medical experts and expecting moms suggest women should be allowed Caesarean sections for reasons other than medical necessity, an assertion that gives new meaning...

KENYA: A BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR FIGHTS STIGMA, SHAME.
March 28, 2003... By Henry Neondo NAIROBI, Kenya (Mar. 28) WOMENSENEWS -- This year, the Kenya Breast Health Program received corporate assistance for the first time. Bio Foods Products Limited, a Nairobi-based dairy firm, made 7,000 pink breast cancer...

WOMEN-LABOR: WHEN MOTHERS LEAVE HOME.
March 28, 2003... By Peggy F. Drexler, Ph.D. NEW YORK, (Mar. 28) WOMENSENEWS -- Seeing these mothers say goodbye to their children -- many of them pre-school age -- stirs poignant and ambivalent reactions in us. We're proud that these women are answering...

WOMEN-RIGHTS: U.S. ASYLUM FOR GENDER VIOLENCE VICTIMS STALLED.
March 28, 2003... By Shauna Curphey NEW YORK, (Mar. 28) WOMENSENEWS -- In Guatemala, Rodi Alvarado suffered ten years of beatings and rapes at the hands of her husband. After several attempts to escape, and with no shelters to run to, in 1995 she fled her...

WOMEN-RIGHTS: GENDER VIOLENCE VICTIMS WAIT FOR VISAS.
March 28, 2003... By Shauna Curphey NEW YORK, (Mar. 28) WOMENSENEWS -- Irena Lieberman, director of legal services for the Washington D.C.-based Tahirih Justice Center, has a client who was brought to the United States from Africa and forced into domestic...

WOMEN: ONE IN 7 U.S. MILITARY PERSONNEL IN IRAQ IS FEMALE.
March 28, 2003... By Shauna Curphey LONG BEACH, Calif. (Mar 22) WOMENSENEWS -- At Vandenberg Air Force Base in Lompoc, Calif., Lucita Warglo and Kathryn Brady, both sergeants, are on stand by to deploy to the Gulf region. While there, Warglo will serve as...

WOMEN: AD USES SEXUAL COME-ON TO SELL STOP-SMOKING AID.
March 28, 2003... NEW YORK, (Mar. 22) WOMENSENEWS -- An ad published in daily newspapers and elsewhere pictures a woman posed on all fours to promote a herbal product that claims to be a "revolutionary new all-natural breakthrough" that allows users to "easily...

WOMEN-HEALTH: COLLEGE STUDENTS REACT TO HISTORY OF THE PILL.
March 28, 2003... By Cristina Silva NEW YORK, (Mar. 28) WOMENSENEWS -- On screen, Anita Fream, a woman who appears to be in her early 50s, narrows her eyes and broadens her shoulders as she confesses, "for the first time in my life I could think about sex...