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July 4, 2003 08:31 PM posted by lisa : track it (0)

U.S. upholds affirmative action
Giving preference to students on the basis of race is justified as long as the aim is diversity and the admissions process does not automatically favour a minority applicant, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday in a pair of split decisions that reflect a sharply divided court and a nation still struggling with its racial fault line

USA's women have 'a new set of priorities,' poll suggests
What are women's top concerns? A poll released today by a women's advocacy group says worries about domestic violence and sexual assault come in way ahead of preserving abortion rights.
The poll also finds that motherhood, although important, is not a must for a complete life. And although most women want a man in their lives, it's not for the traditional reasons: They want his love and affection much more than his paycheck

Men 'set to outlive women'
Men could soon live longer than women, according to experts.
They believe high levels of smoking, drinking and stress may eventually take their toll on women's life spans.
The researchers believe that if current trends continue men born in this century will outlive their female counterparts.

Sexual inequality exposed in virtual world
Female virtual characters suffer from sexual inequality in financial matters, just like their real-world counterparts, according to a new study of the online game EverQuest.
EverQuest is inhabited by tens of thousands of internet gamers at any one time. Players choose a character to represent them in the role-playing world. These avatars can be male or female and one of many fantasy races such as elf or ogre. Once a character has built up experience and skills, some players then sell them for real cash through the internet auction site eBay.

Proliferating Iranian weblogs give voice to taboo topics
In a recent entry, LadySun - the handle used by a feisty online diarist - takes aim at the strict dress code for women, grumbling about a guard who wouldn't let her into a hotel, "cuz I wasn't wearing socks!!"
It is easy to see why she is celebrated by her fans as the "emotional voice of Iran's Generation X." Whether the subject is partying or politics, football or feminism, she writes with feeling, and often humor.

Nurse backs up
Clinton rape charge
In her first radio interview, the woman who nursed the wounds of Juanita Broaddrick shortly after an alleged sexual assault by Bill Clinton, says she remains convinced the ex-president is a rapist.

Judge Rules Rape Victim Can Carry Baby
local judge ruled Wednesday a mentally disabled woman, who was raped while she lived in a group home, should carry her baby to term.
The woman was raped while she lived in a group home, WESH NewsChannel 2 reported.
The decision is based on the guardian's report and two doctors opinions that a woman known as JDS is tolerating her pregnancy well, and after two sonograms, the unborn child appears to be normal.

Panel: Let CPS force services on parents

The parents of a Phoenix boy found locked in a closet earlier this month were offered counseling and parenting classes by Child Protective Services seven times in four years.

But the state agency can't demand that parents participate in services without first taking the dramatic step of removing their children, and 7-year-old Isaac Loubriel was never taken away.

One of the recommendations in a draft report by Gov. Janet Napolitano's commission on CPS would force parents to participate in services or risk losing custody of their children.

One vote passes sex law
Politicians have voted to decriminalise prostitution.
In a narrow vote yesterday, they approved a new law allowing the running of brothels and soliciting.
The Prostitution Reform Bill was passed 60 votes to 59 after New Zealand's first Muslim MP, Ashraf Choudhary, abstained.

Civil Liberties Union Sues Iowa Over Sex Offender Law
state law prohibiting convicted sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or daycare center was challenged in federal court Wednesday.

Hundreds of molesters
freed by Supreme Court
Prosecutors, defense attorneys and the California attorney general's office were still scrambling today to figure out a response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that will free hundreds of confessed and convicted child molesters from prisons across the state.

Anti-abortion activists' appeal rejected
The Supreme Court turned back an appeal today from anti-abortion protesters facing a multimillion dollar judgment for targeting clinic doctors with "wanted" posters.
The court had been asked to give free-speech protection to the activists, but the Bush administration discouraged justices from taking the case.
Physicians sued, claiming they feared for their lives after being listed on a round of Old-West style wanted posters and having their personal information put on the Internet. Three doctors who had been featured on posters were killed.

Residents sue city over benefits for 'gays'
On the heels of a landmark Supreme Court ruling that struck down a Texas law banning sodomy between homosexual male, a number of New Orleans residents have filed suit against the city for allegedly offering domestic partner benefits in violation of state law.

Planned Parenthood
settles pro-lifers' suit
A Planned Parenthood affiliate agreed today to settle a lawsuit brought by three pro-life activists barred from a library the agency ran as part of a public system.
The abortion provider has agreed to pay damages in the suit.

Official: inequality is 'natural'
Inequality is the result of 'natural differences' between the sexes, according to a controversial new survey carried out by Britain's top equality watchdog. And many Britons believe that women receive low pay and perform a larger domestic role through choice, not discrimination

US Sodomy Laws overturned
On June 30, 1986, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that a Georgia state law which specified that sodomy1 was a crime punishable by between one month and twenty years in prison was constitutionally permissable, dismissing claims that such a law violated the privacy rights of those engaging in sodomy as being obviously invalid on the grounds that "Proscriptions against that conduct have ancient roots."

What Do Our Women Want?
Are women unfairly treated in Saudi Arabia? The West I lived in and have been communicating with for years takes this as a fact. Women’s rights organizations, human rights groups and the media demand that our women be able to decide and plan their own life and future. They object to restrictions on the extent to which men and women can mix in society, the restriction on their ability to travel and marry without family permission, driving, career opportunities....

Catholic Presses Women's Claim on Priesthood
As the Catholic Church struggles with its sex-abuse scandal, German theologian Ida Raming--who received what authorities called an illicit ordination last year--calls her excommunication fraudulent and presses the cause of women in the priesthood

Number of Stay-at-Home Dads Rising
This three-day weekend may be especially sweet for the growing number of families who enjoy the freedom of stay-at-home dads and working moms

Roma Women Organize to Fight Triple Bias
Roma women are banding together to fight the triple bias that increases their rates of poverty and shortens their life span by as much as 17 years. The new organization of Roma women is the first to involve representatives from across Europe.

'Real Women' Elude Ad-Driven Magazines
Hearst's switch from Victoria to Lifetime exposes the conflict when publishers promise to reach "real women" with magazines that must also serve as advertising vehicles aimed at the coveted 18-34 female market.

Iraqi Women Debate Future Government
Iraqi women are forming organizations to influence the formation of a new government. While many are lobbying for a secular government, others hope for an Islamic state.

Women's Liberty Under Attack in Northwest Pakistan
A religious alliance in Pakistan's Northwest provinces is ushering in strict new laws that threaten the rights of women and remind many of the Taliban.

More Health Risks from Hormone Replacement Reported
Of the estimated 3 million women who take combined hormone therapy, about 120,000 of them may have abnormal mammograms solely due to their hormone treatment, reports a new study done by the Women's Health Initiative just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The Debate Over Bianca's Rape on All My Children
On July 8th, All My Children's lesbian teenager Bianca will be raped by the show's current villian, Michael Cambias--at least, this is the rumor (nicknamed "Voldemort" on the Television Without Pity boards to mean "the storyline that shall not be named") that has been swirling around the internet for the last several weeks.

Women on top
Mahatma Gandhi had said, "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." In keeping with his philosophy, two like-minded women filmmakers Venita Coelho and Deepti Datt have come together to form India’s first women’s film company, FireHorse Films, in the sunshine state of Goa...

Kenyan women complain about troops
MAASAI women dressed in traditional beads waited at an office in the dusty, one-street Kenyan town of Dol Dol to register their charges against British soldiers they are accusing of rape.

"They pulled me into a nearby thicket and began fighting about who would rape me first," Nayook Ole Mosiany said.
"I have never recovered from that day."

Insomnia 'epidemic' among women
Young women need it. Middle-aged women crave it. Older women have a dim recollection of it.
Nearly three out of four women ages 30 to 60 are not getting eight hours or more of sleep per night during the work week, according to a U.S. Sleep Foundation survey. Almost three out of four mothers working outside the home report they feel tired all the time.

Tech camps inspire girls but may not narrow growing gender gap
Lizzy Serrano wants to design black skateboard sneakers so cool that fellow eighth graders would gladly fork over $40 to buy them.

Her "Half-Pipes'' would feature side pockets for laces because few self-respecting middle schoolers bother to tie bows. They'd include an overstuffed foam tongue -- an antidote to the complaints of hipsters who wedge tube socks into Vans and Converses to give them a fashionable puffiness.

Great idea, especially for a 12-year-old, who might make it big one day as a marketing consultant to the likes of Nike.

Girls warned to cut back on meat, whole milk
Girls should markedly cut back their consumption of red meat, poultry and whole milk to reduce their exposure to dioxin, a chemical that can build up in the body and, in their childbearing years, harm their babies, a U.S. scientific panel says.

Hormone imbalance more common in lesbians
Lesbians are more than twice as likely as heterosexual women to have a hormonal imbalance that causes infertility, a British study has found, linking for the first time lesbian sexual orientation with hormonal makeup.

Hepburn classic feminist: independent, feminine
IF MOVIE STARS can be role models, then Katharine Hepburn was mine. I loved that old girl from the first time I laid eyes on her. There was something about her that rang true to me and to a generation of girls like me. She was tough, independent, strong-willed and humorous, yet feminine and, yes, sexy.

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