Women's E-News articles from March 2004

Women's E-News archives from March 2004

RIGHTS: CALDWELL FOCUSES VIDEO ON HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES.
March 1, 2004... : By Asjylyn Loder NEW YORK, March 1, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) The footage is grainy; the audio muffled. A young woman, her face digitally blurred, sits on a couch next to a man trying to recruit her for work in another country. ...

POLITICS: KERRY FAULTED FOR TAKING FEMALE VOTE FOR GRANTED.
March 1, 2004... By Allison Stevens WASHINGTON, March 2, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Politicians are often accused of talking the talk on the campaign trail but not always walking the walk in Washington. But as Sen. John Kerry enters the Super Tuesday primary...

POLITICS: ELECT WOMEN, FUND FIRST-TIME CANDIDATES.
March 1, 2004... Commentary By Paula DiPerna NEW YORK, March 3, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) The 2004 presidential race has once again focused the public on the shockingly high cost of campaigns and the dismaying scarcity of women seeking the office. President...

POLITICS: IRAQ'S WOMEN SEE VICTORY IN CONSTITUTION.
March 1, 2004... By Ashraf Khalil Iraq's women's rights activists are satisfied for now with a 25-percent quota on female representation in the country's temporary constitution. It's less than they wanted, but still more than the representation of women in...

RIGHTS: ISOLATION AWAITS FRENCH GIRLS IN HEADSCARVES.
March 1, 2004... By Kimberly Conniff Taber The French law banning headscarves and other visible religious symbols takes effect next September. But for some female Muslim teens who choose to wear the scarf, school is becoming such a zone of harassment that...

RIGHTS: COURT NIXES CHURCH PLAN; AFGHAN WOMEN DENIED CARE.
March 1, 2004... New York, March 6, 2004 (WOMENENEWS) The California Supreme Court ruled this week that Catholic Charities of Sacramento must offer health care coverage that includes contraception for its workers, despite objections based on religious...

HEALTH: HERPES VACCINE MIGHT PROTECT FEMALE TEENS.
March 1, 2004... By Molly M. Ginty A vaccine that promises to protect female teens from herpes may be on the market in five years. Looking ahead, however, clinicians wonder how to finance and administer an STD vaccine designed for female adolescents not...

POLITICS: SCORECARD ON BUSH FINDS RHETORIC GAP.
March 1, 2004... By Jennifer Friedlin As women's rights groups observe International Women's Day today, a quarterly scorecard on the Bush administration's international gender-linked polices gives low marks to the U.S. government in the areas of HIV/AIDS...

RIGHTS: WOMEN SHARPEN VIEWS ON SOCIAL SECURITY.
March 1, 2004... By Marianne Sullivan With women having the most to win or lose from changes in Social Security, legal experts and other activists are sharpening their arguments about a major issue in the presidential campaign. New York, March 9, 2004...

RIGHTS: U.N. CONFERS ON PROTECTING WOMEN FROM WAR'S TOLL.
March 1, 2004... By Joe Lauria As the 48th annual meeting of the U.N. Conference on the Status of Women winds down, participants are dismayed by the weak implementation of a 2000 resolution calling for special protection to women and children in conflict....

RIGHTS: IRAQ'S SHIITE MOSQUES REACH OUT TO WOMEN.
March 1, 2004... By Ashraf Khalil Women's religious education classes in Shiite mosques are gaining momentum and new students in Iraq. But activists there question whether newfound Shiite freedoms in the country will serve to empower women. BAGHDAD,...

RIGHTS: AIR FORCE SEEKS RAPE INFO; SENATE DROPS CHILD CARE.
March 1, 2004... Air Force General William Begert initiated a five-month investigation into the military's system of dealing with sexual assault and has revealed information forcing the military to reform its methods. New York, March 13, 2004...

RIGHTS: U.S. ISOLATED ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH.
March 1, 2004... By Joanne Omang At a U.N. conference on Latin America last week, the U.S. tried to weaken support for an international agreement that puts women at the center of development methods. Instead, the U.S. was left isolated as delegates...

HEALTH: PAKISTAN BEGINS NEW REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH PUSH.
March 1, 2004... By Juliette Terzieff Pakistan's new plan to focus on rural health care and reproductive information could help the country in its struggle with some of South Asia's highest rates of maternal and infant mortality. KARACHI, Pakistan...

HEALTH: HIV/AIDS CASES STILL RISING AMONG OLDER WOMEN.
March 1, 2004... By Molly M. Ginty After menopause, many women stop fearing the consequences of consensual sex. But with older women now 18 percent of female AIDS cases, activists such as the "condom grandma" are warning contemporaries about the disease....

RIGHTS: GENDER STUDIES MATTERS AND THRIVES.
March 1, 2004... Commentary By Sheila Gibbons In a culture saturated with media messages that undermine women, Sheila Gibbons says college gender studies courses offer vital training in critical thinking and intellectual self-defense. Editor's Note:...

RIGHTS: PRO-CHOICE CLERGY RAISING MORAL, RELIGIOUS VOICE.
March 1, 2004... By Emma Pearse Pro-choice religious leaders are seeking to enter in the abortion debate with views different from the Catholic hierarchy and fundamentalist leaders. Through books and forums, these leaders are bolstering the moral argument...

RIGHTS: AMNESTY PUSHING NATIONS TO END GENDER VIOLENCE.
March 1, 2004... By Shauna Curphey Amnesty International is beginning an international campaign to portray domestic violence as a violation of human rights. New York, March 19, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Amnesty International aims to force governments to...

SPORT: WOMEN'S BASKETBALL GAINS; GAY CLERIC PUT ON TRIAL.
March 1, 2004... Women's college-level basketball is gaining popularity amongst live and television audiences. New York, March 20, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) The National Collegiate Athletic Association women's basketball tournament begins this Saturday, and...

RIGHTS: U.S. WOMEN LACK HEALTH INSURANCE, ACCESS TO CARE.
March 1, 2004... By Molly M. Ginty The first of a series on health insurance and women: Women's eNews looks at research by the Kaiser Family Foundation that shows that a significant number of U.S. women under 64 lack health insurance and that others face...

RIGHTS: STRAIGHT OR GAY, WOMEN ATTRACTED TO DEMOCRATS.
March 1, 2004... By Justine Nicholas Lesbians, transgender women, heterosexual women and gay men are finding common ground in their opposition to the Bush administration's health and social policies. The result, activists say, is a bonanza for the...

RIGHTS: WOMEN REACH TOP OF POLICE RANKS, GROWTH STILL SLOW.
March 1, 2004... By Jeff Lemberg More women are being appointed to leading roles in the nation's policing ranks, but the growth of women in large law enforcement agencies has remained slow. New York, March 23, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Margo Frasier says...

RIGHTS: JOIN US IN WASHINGTON APRIL 25 TO SAVE ROE V. WADE.
March 1, 2004... By Lenora Lapidus Reproductive rights are the lynchpin that upholds access to employment, education and justice, says Lenora Lapidus. That's why the director of the ACLU Women's Rights Project invites you to join the march in Washington on...

RIGHTS: CZECH REPUBLIC, GERMANY BATTLE OVER SEX TRAFFIC.
March 1, 2004... By Mindy Kay Bricker As the May deadline for the Czech Republic's European Union entry approaches, the issue of girls and prostitution along the border between Germany and the Czech Republic has become a source of controversy. PRAGUE,...

SPORT: FEMALE CAGERS TOPS; FETUSES GIVEN LEGAL STATUS.
March 1, 2004... A new study has revealed remarkable graduation rates among women's student basketball teams that are part of the Sweet 16 tournament of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. New York, March 27, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) The study,...

RIGHTS: DOWRY PRACTICE CHALLENGED IN PAKISTAN'S NORTHWEST.
March 1, 2004... By Juliette Terzieff A powerful religious party in Pakistan's conservative Northwest Frontier Province has organized a mass wedding in protest of the widespread custom of parents of brides being compelled to provide ever higher dowries....

POLITICS: AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S VOTE KEY IN 2004.
March 1, 2004... By Luchina Fisher Black women tend to vote Democratic, but as presidential election politics heat up, Republicans are hoping to make inroads in this key voting bloc. New York, March 29, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) With a presidential...

POLITICS AND RIGHTS: MANY WOMEN SEE SOCIAL INSECURITY IN TAX CUTS.
March 1, 2004... By Marianne Sullivan Tax-cut policies--not aging baby boomers--are what really threaten Social Security and Medicare. That's what many women's groups argue and they are invoking last week's annual reports by the trustees of both programs...

RIGHTS: GAY OR STRAIGHT, MARRIAGE MAY NOT BE BLISS.
March 1, 2004... Commentary By Mink and Smith As Massachusetts legislators and lawyers spar over the rights of same-sex couples to marry, the premise of the debate--that marriage is best--scores a stealth victory for the government's coercive campaign to...

CULTURE: DOUGLAS SUBVERTS SEXISM BY MAKING IT FUNNY.
March 1, 2004... By Luchina Fisher Susan Douglas has made a career out of monitoring the media's portrayal of women. In her latest book, "The Mommy Myth," Douglas takes on what she calls the "new momism," or the perfectionist rendering of motherhood. ...

RIGHTS: CAREER CLIMB SLOW FOR FEMALE FIREFIGHTERS.
March 1, 2004... By David Gottlieb In the past decade, female firefighters have grown to just over 2 percent of the nation's career firefighters and the fiercely male culture makes it difficult to recruit and advance women. New York, March 25, 2004...

RIGHTS: A MOTHER'S PLACE IS IN THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT.
March 1, 2004... By Elizabeth Bauchner In observance of Women's History month, Elizabeth Bauchner looks at how early feminism spearheaded social reforms, but left women in the home. The second wave focused on the work force. Now, she says, it's high time...