Women's E-News articles from October 2004

Women's E-News archives from October 2004

US: BUSH AND KERRY TAKE DIFFERENT TACK ON REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS.
October 1, 2004... By Molly M. Ginty NEW YORK, October 31 2004 (WOMENSENEWS)--The choice was clear. Earlier this month, as millions of Americans watched the presidential debates, the candidates' conflicting views on reproductive rights were front and center...

WOMEN: INTERNATIONAL CHEERS AND JEERS.
October 1, 2004... By Robin Hindery NEW YORK, October 30 2004 (WOMENSENEWS)--Cheers: A new family court system recently set up across Egypt will lead to a huge improvement in Egyptian women's legal rights, advocates say. A total of 224 courts with about...

US: UNEARTHING THE HISTORY OF THE WOMEN'S VOTE.
October 1, 2004... By Louise Bernikow NEW YORK, October 29 2004 (WOMENSENEWS)--American women's patriotic duty in wartime is to be silent about everything except support for the troops and the Commander in Chief. That was the general idea in 1917. As...

WOMEN: US BUSINESS OWNERS NOT RECEIVING MANDATED CONTRACTS.
October 1, 2004... By Marianne Sullivan New York, October 29 2004 (WOMENSENEWS)--For 15 years, Pam Adams has been trying to get a federal contract for Indusys Technology, Inc., a San Jose, Calif.-based, women-owned-and-operated technology services provider....

US: PROFILE OF WOMEN SAVED BY LATE-TERM ABORTIONS.
October 1, 2004... By Molly M. Ginty WASHINGTON DC, October 28 2004 (WOMENSENEWS)--Tammy Watts sat and seethed. Perched on the edge of her couch in Queen Creek, Ariz., she could barely contain her frustration as she watched the last two presidential...

US: COMMENTATOR BREAKS DOWN "RAMBO-STYLE" POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS.
October 1, 2004... By Mary S. Hartman NEW YORK, October 27 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Is leadership a sex-linked trait? Are men--in particular, macho men--alone capable of being national leaders? Of course not. But you would hardly know that women are...

HEALTH: US STATE PROPOSITION DIVIDES DEBATE ON STEM CELLS.
October 1, 2004... By Rebecca Vesely SAN FRANCISCO, October 26 2004 (WOMENSENEWS)--As though to prove the adage that politics makes strange bedfellows, some pro-choice activists and feminists are joining anti-choice activists and the Catholic Church in...

WOMEN: IN BUSINESS ALONG WITH GLASS CEILING THERE IS GLASS CLIFF.
October 1, 2004... By Andrea Wren LONDON, October 25 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Margaret Thatcher is Britain's most well known female politician and only female prime minister. Two British gender researchers, however, don't consider her unique. In...

POLITICS: FLORIDA'S CASTOR WAGES FIGHT OF HER CAREER.
October 1, 2004... By Nancy Cook Lauer TALLAHASSEE, Florida,. October 24 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) - When she was just 23, Betty Castor led a group of young women to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. That struggle was nothing compared to this. Castor, 63, is now in...

WOMEN: PAKISTAN BOOSTS POLS; RAPE WIDESPREAD IN COLOMBIA.
October 1, 2004... NEW YORK, October 23 2004 - (WOMENSENEWS) - Pakistan's women's ministry announced a new program this week to educate and train female leaders and representatives of local government across the country. The Women's Political School project, a...

POLITICS: WALKING THE WALK IN CENTRAL FLORIDA.
October 1, 2004... By Juhie Bhatia ORLANDO, Florida, October 22 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) "Iraq," she said decidedly, bobbing her chin-length blond-streaked hair, her bare feet almost dancing, as she paced on the tiled floor. "I feel I should say education, since...

WOMEN: CANDIDATES DIFFER STARKLY ON WOMEN'S WAGE ISSUES.
October 1, 2004... By Robin Hindery NEW YORK, October 22 2004 (WOMENSENEWS)--October polls have been showing that women in general, and especially single women, are supporting Senator John Kerry over President Bush; sometimes by as many as 10 percentage...

HEALTH: BREAST CANCER MONTH SPURS PINK-PRODUCT DEBATE.
October 1, 2004... By Rebecca Vesely SAN FRANCISCO, October 21 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Seeing pink these days? You're not the only one. From Estee Lauder's pink lipstick to pink Keds to Conair pink travel hair dryers to Jimmy Choo hot pink high heels,...

POLITICS: IF ROE FALLS, STATES OFFER LITTLE PROTECTION.
October 1, 2004... Commentary By Ann Pappert NEW YORK, October 20 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Like most other women concerned with abortion rights, I've focused on what would happen if Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision protecting women's right to have a...

POLITICS: MINNESOTA'S FAMILY CAP ON WELFARE DRAWS FIRE.
October 1, 2004... By Jennifer Friedlin NEW YORK, October 19 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) When Tim Pawlenty was elected governor of Minnesota in 2002 he inherited a $4.5 billion deficit. In order to reduce the gap, he introduced a budget that included significant...

WOMEN: BABY GIRLS FILL PAKISTAN'S PUBLIC CRADLES.
October 1, 2004... By Juliette Terzieff ISLAMABAD, Pakistan October 17 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Police found the newborn girl, known only to the world as Shazia, in a garbage pile outside the capital city. She had spent at least 12 hours exposed to the elements....

POLITICS: SAUDI EXEC SPEAKS UP; IRAN TEEN FACES STONING.
October 1, 2004... NEW YORK, October 16 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) A Saudi woman who has been willing to press for gender equality within the Arab nations last week won the 2004 achievement award given by the Arab Bankers Association of North America, a New York...

ECONOMY: SPEECH OF LUBNA S. OLAYAN TO ARAB BANKERS.
October 1, 2004... Commentary By Lubna S. Olayan NEW YORK, October 15 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) -- (Below are the remarks by Lubna S. Olayan, chief executive officer, Olayan Financing Company of Saudi Arabia upon receiving the 2004 Achievement Award from the...

WOMEN: NOBEL WINNER ENERGIZES WOMEN'S ENVIRONMENTAL PUSH.
October 1, 2004... By Miriri Duncan NAIROBI, Kenya October 15 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) As a United Nations conference on women and the environment ended here Wednesday, female environmental leaders and activists were bolstered by the presence of Wangari Maathai,...

POLITICS: WOMEN'S VOTE IN 2004 REMAINS GREAT UNKNOWN.
October 1, 2004... By Robin Hindery NEW YORK, October 14 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Add one more item to the list of the Big Unknowns for the presidential campaign: How are women responding to the debates and the candidates' pitches? Few polls publicly release...

HEALTH: BIG TOBACCO BAITS YOUNG WOMEN WITH FRUIT FLAVORS.
October 1, 2004... Commentary by Stein and Hudak NEW YORK, October 13 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) The pay gap between women and men is an appalling 23 percent. There are still only eight women heading Fortune 500 companies and women make up only 13 percent of...

U.S.-POLITICS: POLLSTERS CALL 'SECURITY MOMS' A MYTH.
October 1, 2004... By Dan De Luce WASHINGTON, October 12, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) You can't find them in polling data, but they are supposed to be this year's electoral phenomenon. Meet the so-called "security moms," a pivotal group cited again and again...

RELIGION: JEWISH WOMEN REACH OUT IN FORMER SOVIET UNION.
October 1, 2004... By Keren Engelberg MOSCOW, October 11, 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) "I gathered them to the river that flows into Ahava; and there we encamped three days," Rabbi Goldie Milgram, read from the biblical book of Ezra. While the words may be...

WOMEN: FEMALE MUSLIM COMICS TWIST BIAS INTO COMIC JABS.
October 1, 2004... By Megan Cossey NEW YORK, October 10 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Tissa Hami strode onstage at a Boston comedy club this past August in black pants, a thigh length black coat and a head covering, stared down her audience and deadpanned "I really...

WOMEN: AFRICAN WINS NOBEL PRIZE; ABORIGINAL WOMEN IGNORED.
October 1, 2004... NEW YORK, October 8 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) For the first time an African woman has won the Nobel Peace Prize, it was announced Friday. The woman, Professor Wangari Maathai, 64, is an environmentalist and human rights activist from Kenya, and she...

POLITICS: INTENSE EFFORTS UNDERWAY TO MOBILIZE FEMALE VOTERS.
October 1, 2004... By Allison Stevens WASHINGTON, D.C. October 8 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) A group of prominent liberal political leaders held a rally on the steps of the Supreme Court on its opening day Monday to warn women that their right to have an abortion...

RIGHTS: AFGHAN WOMEN FACE INEQUITY, ABUSE, JAIL.
October 1, 2004... By Masha Hamilton KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, October 7 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Musliba leans forward, holding her white scarf so that only her dark eyes are visible, and makes an open-handed gesture. She wants to explain to the foreign visitor...

WOMEN : LEE CHIPS AWAY AT 'ULTIMATE' GLASS CEILING.
October 1, 2004... By Elizabeth Mehren BOSTON, October 5 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Barbara Lee is certain that a woman will crack "the ultimate glass ceiling--the presidency." To make sure that can happen "in the not-too-distant future," Lee established a...

POLITICS: U.S. SUCCESS IN AFGHANISTAN QUESTIONED BY EXPERTS.
October 1, 2004... By Dan De Luce WASHINGTON, October 4 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) The one mention of women's human rights issues during last week's presidential debate was a brief one. George W. Bush took credit for 10 million voters registered in Afghanistan and...

MEDIA : POLL: MEDIA CAN NAME RAPE ACCUSERS WITH PERMISSION.
October 1, 2004... By Robin Hindery NEW YORK, October 3 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) A clear majority of the 820 readers who filled out the Women's eNews online questionnaire felt that in both criminal and civil cases the media should use the names of accusers only...

WOMEN: MARTHA STEWART JOINS MANY WOMEN BEHIND BARS.
October 1, 2004... By Nancy Cook Lauer TALLAHASSEE, Florida, October 3 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) The dramatic rise in female prison inmates caught the Florida Department of Corrections by surprise. The agency Sept. 22 had to ask a panel of state lawmakers for...

POLITICS: GENDER GAP STILL WIDE; NEO-CON FEMS WIN IRAQ GRANT.
October 1, 2004... NEW YORK, October 2 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Despite recent polls and media reports suggesting that the gender gap among voters has all but disappeared, numerous experts on voting and women's issues declared this week that women will once again be...

HEALTH: PRODUCER TURNS LENS ON SELF TO REVEAL AIDS GROWTH.
October 1, 2004... By Juhie Bhatia NEW YORK, October 1 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) When Sharon Sopher diagnosed herself in July 2000, it was her journalistic instinct that kicked in, not her fear of dying. She'd stumbled onto a story she hoped she'd live long...

WOMEN: FEMINISTS PROTEST SPOCK'S SEX BIAS.
October 1, 2004... By Louise Bernikow NEW YORK, October 1 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) Dr. Benjamin Spock revolutionized child care in 1946 with "The Commonsense Book of Baby and Child Care," in which the pediatrician urged mothers to trust their own instincts...

POLITICS: ANTI-CHOICE DEMS SAY IT'S THEIR PARTY TOO.
October 1, 2004... By Bhatia and Hindery NEW YORK, October 1 2004 (WOMENSENEWS) A small but vocal group of anti-choice supporters within the Democratic Party is working to change the assumption that views on abortion are divided along party lines and are...