Women's E-News articles from November 2004

Women's E-News archives from November 2004

WOMEN: GAY LATINA WINS IN DALLAS.
November 1, 2004... by Robin Hindery. NEW YORK, November 13, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - An openly gay Hispanic woman was elected sheriff of Dallas County on Tuesday, becoming the county's first ever elected female sheriff and the first Democrat to win the post in...

IRAN: TWO LEADING FEMALE JOURNALISTS JAILED.
November 1, 2004... By Robin Hindery. NEW YORK, November 13, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - Two leading female journalists have been arrested in Iran over the past two weeks as part of the hard-line conservative government's efforts to suppress pro-democracy...

AFGHANISTAN: WOMEN BUILDING LIVES AMID RUBBLE.
November 1, 2004... By Masha Hamilton KABUL, Afghanistan, November 12, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - As evening approached in one of west Kabul's poorest neighborhoods, Parwin sat outside in the waning light, trying to mend one of her daughter's dresses with a...

HEALTH: NEW CLUES MAY AID AFRICAN AMERICANS WITH BREAST CANCER.
November 1, 2004... By Suzanne Batchelor NEW YORK, November 11 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - An African American woman is less likely to get breast cancer than a white woman, but more likely to die from it. For her, breast cancer often comes at a younger age and in...

WOMEN: OLDER WOMEN UNITE.
November 1, 2004... Commentary By Margaret M. Gullette NEW YORK, November 10 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - What makes particular bodies or activities "ugly" and "disgusting"? One way is to put a label on them that says so. Ageism in America has done just that to...

US: WOMEN CAPTURE KEY CONGRESSIONAL POSITIONS.
November 1, 2004... By Robin Hindery NEW YORK, November 9 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - A record 139 women ran for the House of Representatives this year, according to the Center for American Women and Politics, Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers, the State...

WOMEN: CHOICE ACTIVISTS BRACE FOR ROE-LESS ERA.
November 1, 2004... By Molly M. Ginty NEW YORK, November 8, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - Abortion could go underground. Now that President George W. Bush has been elected to a second term, he may appoint new Supreme Court justices who fundamentally disagree with...

U.S. ELECTIONS: KERRY AND WOMEN, TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE.
November 1, 2004... By Robin Hindery NEW YORK, November 6 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - Over 62 million women voted in this year's election, supporting George W. Bush in higher numbers than in 2000 and reducing the gap between how men and women voted. While...

ETHIOPIA: SETS PARLIAMENT QUOTA FOR FEMALES.
November 1, 2004... By Robin Hindery. NEW YORK, November 6 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - Ethiopia's ruling political party has announced it will guarantee women 30 percent of its parliament seats, calling the move a necessary step toward "a true democracy." The...

WOMEN: TV SHOW ABOUT FEMALE FELONS SPARKS OUTRAGE.
November 1, 2004... By Sandy Kobrin NEW YORK, November 5 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - A new show broadcast by Oxygen, the cable television network that caters to a female audience, is coming under strong criticism by people like Andrea Bible, who work for battered...

U.S.: ELECTIONS COVERAGE OF WOMEN WAY OFF.
November 1, 2004... By Sheila Gibbons NEW YORK, November 4 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - Here we are, seemingly at the end of our long, national squabble. Or perhaps we're just ending one phase and beginning another. But however things go from here, we can say one...

US: UNIVERSITY WOMEN VOTE IN RECORD NUMBERS.
November 1, 2004... By Dan De Luce NEW YORK, November 3 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Walking dorm-to-dorm and door-to-door for the past few months, Elizabeth Harless has been reminding her fellow students at West Virginia University about the history of the women's...

US: CASTOR LOSES IN FLORIDA; WOMEN GAIN IN HOUSE.
November 1, 2004... By Hindery and Bhatia NEW YORK, November 2 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Candidates that prioritized women's issues competed Tuesday for Senate and House seats and governorships across the country, with some hot races stretching all the way to...

WOMEN: PUSH TO CHANGE FAMILY COURTS' CUSTODY RULES.
November 1, 2004... By Jennifer Friedlin NEW YORK, November 1 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Karen Hartley-Nagle knows her chances of winning a seat in the Delaware State Senate tomorrow are slim. But the Independent Party candidate says winning is not her main...

WOMEN: GOODMAN OPINES ON WOMAN'S ISSUES, ELECTION.
November 1, 2004... By Elizabeth Mehren NEW YORK, November 1 2004 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (WOMENSENEWS) Finishing a column about security moms the other day, Ellen Goodman was already thinking about the next topic she would tackle. Laura Bush, she thought: Time to...

U.S.-HEALTH: MORE WOMEN SEEK VAGINAL PLASTIC SURGERY.
November 1, 2004... By Sandy Kobrin LOS ANGELES, November 14 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) - She was 20 years old and had never contemplated plastic surgery. But one day at the gym, the pretty, smooth-faced receptionist in a Los Angeles doctor's office looked at her...

U.S.-HEALTH: TEEN DEATH STEERS RU-486 BILL TO CONGRESS.
November 1, 2004... By Rebecca Vesely SAN FRANCISCO, November 15 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) - Monty Patterson lost his daughter Holly just a few weeks after her 18th birthday last September. Holly had taken RU-486, an abortion drug that has been used by more than 1...

U.S.-POLITICS: I LOST THE RACE FOR GOVERNOR.
November 1, 2004... By Arnie Arnesen NEW YORK, November 15 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - I had lost the Governor's race just a few weeks earlier and was reacquainting myself with the art of driving alone. As I headed to a meeting in the North Country, I stopped at a...

U.S.: LACI PETERSON'S MURDER DRAMATIZES COMMON DANGER.
November 1, 2004... By Gretchen Cook NEW YORK, November 16 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - Scott Peterson's guilty verdict on Friday culminates nearly two years of sensational news coverage, one of the highest-rated TV movies and thousands of Internet postings. The...

HEALTH: SCIENCE REPORTING SKEWS SEX DIFFERENCES.
November 1, 2004... Commentary By Sheila Gibbons NEW YORK, November 17 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - Recent studies on gender differences in the human brain--potentially predictive of differences in learning and acumen--are being treated like hot potatoes. "It's...

U.S.: LARGE CUTS IN FEDERAL HOUSE AID EXPECTED.
November 1, 2004... By Melinda Tuhus NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, November 18 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - Jackeline Cruz is the mother of three boys, 11, 10 and 3, one of whom has a disability. She recently graduated from a training program as a child development...

RIGHTS: WIDOWS IN CHILE SEEK PROSECUTION FOR MISSING KIN.
November 1, 2004... By Jen Ross SANTIAGO, CHILE, November 17 2005 (WOMENSENEWS) - Tears well in her eyes as she peruses the black-and-white photographs and listens to a familiar female voice singing a mournful song of remembrance. "Where are the ones who...

U.S.-LABOR: MINORITY-OWNED BIZ UP; WAGE GAP CONTINUES.
November 1, 2004... NEW YORK, November 20 2004 (WOMENSENEWS)-Over the past seven years, the number of minority women-owned businesses has increased at a faster rate than all other businesses, according to a study released Tuesday by the Washington-based Center for...

U.S.: WOMEN PIONEER BIOFUEL TO SAVE MOTHER EARTH.
November 1, 2004... By Kristin Bender BERKELEY, California, November 21 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - There's a clean-fuel movement going on in the United States that allows motorists to recycle the vegetable oil that cooked French fries, donuts and Chinese food to...

U.S.-HEALTH: MOMS FIGHT TO BREASTFEED IN PUBLIC.
November 1, 2004... By Juhie Bhatia NEW YORK, November 22 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - The first time Lorig Charkoudian was asked to cover up was in early July, as she nursed her 14-month-old daughter in a Maryland Starbucks. Only one other customer was in the...

NURSING SHORTAGE THREATENS HEALTH CARE.
November 1, 2004... By Molly M. Ginty NEW YORK, November 23 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - In Denver, 78-year-old Mary Heidenreich died when a nurse who had flunked a medication competency test accidentally gave her a fatal dose of intravenous drugs. In Wichita,...

U.S.-MEDIA: NAKED FEMALE ANCHOR? LET'S HOLD THE SHOW.
November 1, 2004... Commentary By Michele Weldon NEW YORK, November 24 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - This is one angle on a news story we didn't need. Having a female television anchor cover an arts story while nude is like sending the Blue Man Group to cover the...

WOMEN: SUFFRAGISTS KNEW HOW TO MAKE A STIR ON HOLIDAYS.
November 1, 2004... By Laura Schenone NEW YORK, November 25 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - It's Thanksgiving, the day when the domestic divas rule the roost. Thank heavens, some of us may say, that this is not the case everyday. Yes, yes . . . cooking for and...

U.S.-LABOR: HOUSEWORK GAP CLOSES FOR DUAL-EARNER COUPLES.
November 1, 2004... Commentary By Rivers and Barnett NEW YORK, November 26 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - The U.S. Department of Labor has a news flash for American women--a message they definitely did not count among their reasons for Thanksgiving yesterday. A...

U.S.: WOMEN'S SHELTERS REFUSING TO SURRENDER CLIENT INFO.
November 1, 2004... By Sandy Kobrin NEW YORK, November 26 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - A recent change in the reporting standards for the Housing and Urban Development Homeless Management Information Systems has, according to women's advocacy groups, placed at risk...

U.S.-MEDIA: SCIENCE EQUITY SITE LAUNCHED; STATION ALTERS IPAS AD.
November 1, 2004... NEW YORK, November 27 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - A recently launched Web-based letter writing campaign aims to help members of university communities address the under-representation of women on science faculties nationwide. The campaign, Women...

CHILE-HEALTH: ILLEGAL ABORTIONS RAMPANT IN LATIN AMERICA.
November 1, 2004... By Jen Ross SANTIAGO, CHILE, November 28 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - Monica Maureira remembers how--as the nurses interrogated her and the doctors lectured her--she watched her hands going transparent from the blood loss. She was 16 years old...

U.S.-HEALTH: SEX DRUGS FOR WOMEN FLOOD THE MARKET.
November 1, 2004... By Molly M. Ginty NEW YORK, November 29 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - Maura Kelly remembers the night the spark in her marriage fizzled out. "A month after I gave birth to my first child, my husband reached for me in bed and started kissing my...

EDUCATION: TURKEY TELLS ITS GIRLS: 'LET'S GO TO SCHOOL'.
November 1, 2004... By Yigal Schleifer DIREKLI, Turkey, November 30 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - Standing in her school's dusty courtyard during ceremonies marking the first day of classes, Eylem Irmak towers over her fellow first graders. It's not that she's so...

U.S.-WOMEN: ROJAS SWIMS AGAINST MACHISMO TIDE IN CUBA.
November 1, 2004... By Ann Farmer HAVANA, Cuba, November 30 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - When Fidel Castro and his followers launched a failed attack on the Moncada army barracks in Santiago de Cuba in July 1953, unleashing the precarious beginnings of the Cuban...

U.S.-POLITICS: DECEMBER 1872, WOMEN TOLD TO TAKE IT EASY.
November 1, 2004... By Louise Bernikow NEW YORK, November 30 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - Progress provokes reaction. After the American Civil War, an energetic surge partially kept in check while the nation tore itself apart was let loose. Serious education for...