Women's E-News articles from September 2003

Women's E-News archives from September 2003

LOWER MALE INCOME CAUSES TIGHTEST WAGE GAP.
September 5, 2003... By Jennifer Friedlin Sep. 1 (WOMENSENEWS) - This Labor Day, female workers can feel a little less short-changed. A recent study found that in the second quarter of 2003, women's hourly median wages totaled 81.3 percent of men's median...

RELIGIOUS LEADER WHO RECOMMEND WIFE-BEATING SUED.
September 5, 2003... By Jerome Socolovsky MADRID, Spain, Sep. 2 (WOMENSENEWS) - The 32-year-old Moroccan sat in the rehabilitation center for abused women and talked about all the things she never dared to do when she first moved to Spain. She would never...

GIRLS' GAINS IN SCHOOL DON'T SUBTRACT FROM BOYS'.
September 5, 2003... By Deborah Merrill-Sands Sep. 3 (WOMENSENEWS) - As parents this week finish buying backpacks and notebooks for their children returning to school, they may also pause to worry if the heralded new gender gap in education--that girls'...

STATISTICS SUGGEST MORE RAPE VICTIMS SPEAK UP.
September 5, 2003... By Asjylyn Loder Sep. 4 (WOMENSENEWS) - Rape jumped 4 percent in 2002, according to FBI statistics. But that may be good news. Women, according to a new survey by the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics, are coming...

SEX ASSAULT NOW A POLITICAL ACT IN ZIMBABWE.
September 5, 2003... By Nicole Itano JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Sep. 5 (WOMENSENEWS) - When they came knocking, she thought they were thieves. But the soldiers who pushed through her door with guns, batons and ropes were there to take her dignity, not her...

MARRIAGE-ED COURSES SWEEPING CAMPUSES.
September 5, 2003... By Frances Whittelsey Aug. 31 (WOMENSENEWS) - This fall, the students in Becky Adams' college class on marriage--more than 80 percent of them female--will quickly be taught that much of what they believe about marriage is a myth. ...

SURVEY: SEXUAL ASSAULT COMMON AT AIR FORCE ACADEMY.
September 5, 2003... Aug. 30 (WOMENSENEWS) - Nearly 12 percent of the women who graduated from the United States Air Force Academy this year were the victims of rape or attempted rape during their four years at the academy in Colorado Springs, with the vast...