Women's E-News articles from May 2003

Women's E-News archives from May 2003

WOMEN-HEALTH: INDIAN WOMEN CRITICIZE 'FAIR AND LOVELY' IDEAL.
May 2, 2003... By Nicole Leistikow NEW DELHI, India (May 1) WOMENSENEWS -- Two attractive young women are sitting in a bedroom having an intimate conversation. The lighter-skinned woman has a boyfriend and, consequently, is happy. The darker-skinned...

WOMEN-LABOR: WNBA, PLAYERS REACH AGREEMENT.
May 2, 2003... By Sue Reisinger NEW YORK, (May 1) WOMENSENEWS -- The Women's National Basketball Association signed a collective bargaining agreement with its players Friday after tense negotiations that saw the league postpone its annual draft of...

WOMEN-RIGHTS: THIS IS MOST FRAGILE TIME FOR AFGHANISTAN.
May 2, 2003... By Eve Ensler NEW YORK, (May 1) WOMENSENEWS -- I have just returned from Afghanistan. This was my third trip. I write now because the situation is urgent. I would say this is the most fragile time in Afghanistan I have experienced. ...

LABOR-WOMEN: WAL-MART EXECES' TESTIMONY COULD HELP SEX BIAS SUIT.
May 2, 2003... By Liza Featherstone NEW YORK, (May 1) WOMENSENEWS -- Female plaintiffs in a major sex-discrimination class-action against Wal-Mart filed for class certification on Monday, before a San Francisco federal judge. Depending on the outcome...

DEVELOPMENT: WOMEN ARE GIVING AWAY MORE MONEY THAN EVER.
May 2, 2003... By Luchina Fisher NEW YORK, (May 2) WOMENSENEWS -- As 282 female philanthropists from around the world gathered in Dallas last week for the 19th annual conference of the Women's Funding Network, they faced a slumping economy, an...

AFRICA: IN WAR-RIDDLED CONGO, MILITIAS RAPE WITH IMPUNITY.
May 2, 2003... By Tiare Rath BUKAVU, Democratic Republic of Congo (May 1) WOMENSENEWS -- At just 13, Gisele Buhendwa possesses a tough exterior that reveals little. She tells her story in a matter-of-fact manner: her deep, scratchy voice never...

HEALTH-WOMEN: BILL TO ERECT STATUE TO MEMORIALIZE UNBORN CHILDREN.
May 2, 2003... By Jill Filipovic NEW YORK, (May 1) WOMENSENEWS -- The South Carolina newspaper, The State, reports that the state legislature's House Ways and Means Property Tax Subcommittee approved a bill last week to erect a monument on state grounds...

WOMEN-HEALTH: PILL BAN SPARKS PROTEST AT JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY.
May 2, 2003... By Jill Filipovic NEW YORK (May 1) WOMENSENEWS -- The trustees at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Va., have ordered the campus health center to stop dispensing emergency contraceptive pills, known as morning-after pills,...

U.S.: REPUBLICAN FUND-RAISER PLEADS TO CHILD PORNOGRAPHY CHARGE.
May 2, 2003... By Jill Filipovic NEW YORK, (May 1) WOMENSENEWS -- A prominent Republican fund-raiser from Burke, Va., pleaded guilty to production of child pornography, yesterday in Baltimore Circuit Court, The Baltimore Sun reported. Richard Anthony...

U.S.-LABOR: SAFETY NET IS FLIMSY FOR UNEMPLOYED WOMEN.
May 9, 2003... By Shauna Curphey NEW YORK, May 5 (WOMENSENEWS) -- At the Career Transition Center in Long Beach, Calif., a small group of men and women sit hunched in front computer monitors, searching a state database for jobs. One well-dressed...

SCIENCE: BIOLOGISTS RETHINK DARWIN'S THEORIES ON SEX ROLES.
May 9, 2003... By Kathleen Nelson NEW YORK, May 6 (WOMENSENEWS) -- Charles Darwin's famous theory of natural selection--which he began to develop in the 1830s --may still be widely accepted as an explanation for how species are related and what causes...

GENDER: CELEBRATE MOTHER-SON LOVE THIS TROUBLED MOTHER'S DAY.
May 9, 2003... By Peggy F. Drexler NEW YORK, May 7 (WOMENSENEWS) -- It has been a hard year for mothers of sons. They have sent too many of their male children off to war in Iraq and other danger zones. According to a recent article in The New York...

POPULATION: 34 MILLION DOLLAR FRIENDS CAMPAIGN EXPANDS TO EUROPE.
May 9, 2003... By Barbara Crossette NEW YORK, May 8 (WOMENSENEWS) -- Last summer, two U.S. women completely unknown to one another read about the Bush administration's decision to cut all contributions to the United Nations Population Fund and they got...

POLITICS-U.S.: NEW FEDERAL JUDGES LIKELY TO CURTAIL WOMEN'S RIGHTS.
May 9, 2003... By Jillian Jonas NEW YORK, May 9 (WOMENSENEWS) -- The temperament and philosophy of the judges nominated by the Bush administration to the federal bench do not bode well for many women. The decisions these judges are likely to make--based...

U.S.-POLITICS: MOSELEY BRAUN RUNS FOR PRESIDENT AND MORE.
May 9, 2003... By Allison Stevens NEW YORK, May 4 (WOMENSENEWS) -- Pundits and politicians have scoffed at Carol Moseley Braun and her recent foray into presidential politics, noting that the former Democratic senator from Illinois has little chance of...

HEALTH-WOMEN: RAPE-CRISIS FUNDS FACE AX IN MASSACHUSETTS.
May 9, 2003... NEW YORK, May 3 (WOMENSENEWS) -- At the end of April, as Sexual Assault Awareness Month was winding down, the Massachusetts' House Ways and Means Committee proposed eliminating the funding of rape-crisis and domestic-violence centers in the...

JORDAN: STAFF REPORTER MAKES "HONOR CRIMES" HER BEAT.
May 9, 2003... By Shafika Mattar AMMAN, Jordan, May 8 (WOMENSENEWS) -- Early in her career, Rana Husseini stumbled upon a story that would define the focus of her work and shatter the silence around a crime that claims the lives of at least 25 women a...