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Who Wants to Marry a Marriage Initiative?
The Bush administration's $1.5 billion drive to promote marriag among poor people is being received with joy on the religious right as a sign that George W. Bush is still their man. But the news is meeting a cooler reception everywhere else on the political spectrum. To most on the left and even some on the right, the marriage initiative sounds now just like it did when it emerged three years ago as a component of a new Republican welfare system: patronizing and wrongheaded.
Does The L Word Represent? Viewer Reactions Vary on the Premiere Episode
It was like the Lesbian Super Bowl as women across the country gathered together in living rooms and online to watch the show and talk about it afterwards. While the ratings for the premiere have not yet been disclosed, message boards and search engines have been flooded with requests for more information on the series and its cast since Sunday, and so many more people than expected logged onto Showtime's chat with Jennifer Beals immediately following the premiere that Showtime's servers crashed.
2003: The Year of the Depressing Lesbian in Film...Again
In 2003, lesbian characters were mostly absent from the movies found at your local theaters, and the few lesbians that were on the big screen collectively painted a portrait of lesbianism that was, well...less than flattering. Far, far less.
Kyrgyz Women Tell U.N. They Lack Basic Rights
A coalition of women's rights organizations in Kyrgyzstan submitted a report to the United Nations this week countering what they expected to be a too-rosy official depiction of the status of women in the former Soviet country.
Inequities Persist for Women in Media
The glass ceiling in media companies appears shatter-proof. Not only do women's pay and promotions continue to lag behind those of men, the gap widens as women log more years on the job and gain experience, a sort of reverse reward system.
Analysts Watching Female Voters in Iowa Caucuses
More Iowan women than men are expected to vote today in the first test among the electorate for the Democratic presidential candidates. Experts say the outcome could indicate how women will vote in the upcoming presidential election.
Pakistan TV Show Flooded with Women's Questions
In Pakistan, a new U.S.-style television show is airing personal advice. The show is attracting a huge female audience anxious for advice on topics such as arranged marriages and sexual abuse.
Date Rape Drugs Still Available, Despite Crackdown
Five years after the fatal poisoning of Michigan teen Samantha Reid by a so-called date-rape drug, these types of narcotics remain widely available in the United States despite crackdowns
Fewer Pelvic Exams for Teens Seeking Birth Control
Female teens seeking birth control are less likely to undergo pelvic exams. Doctors say that young women's dread of the invasive procedure prevents them from seeking not only contraceptive counseling, but gynecological care in general.
NY Mike Helps Teen Moms; Feds Ignore Birth Control
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the city's new maternity leave program for teen students is compassionate and a practical approach to helping new moms.
The Daily News reported this week that high school and middle school students who have a baby can now get a two month leave, along with home visits from a nurse and social worker. Education department officials say the program is intended to fight dropout rates among teen moms
The 2004 Women's Health Daybook, distributed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, fails to address pregnancy prevention, say leaders of more than 30 state and national organizations engaged in promoting women's health.
The organizations wrote a letter this week to Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson to express dismay that his department is distributing the book.
Iraqi women divided over family law
Thousands of Kurdish women have marched in northern Iraq against an interim Governing Council decision to repeal long-standing secular family laws even as 500 veiled women gathered in the Shia city of Najaf to support it
Estrogen may make women more vulnerable to mental illness
High levels of estrogen may enhance the brain's response to stress, making women more vulnerable to mental illnesses such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to a Yale study. This finding may explain why stress-related mental illnesses occur at least twice as often in women as in men. It also may explain why the discrepancy in prevalence begins in women at puberty, continues through the childbearing years, and then declines in postmenopausal years.
Study: Boys Raised as Girls Find Male Identity
The author of a new study on males born with a deformity of the penis known as cloacal exstrophy suggested on Wednesday that the children should be brought up as boys, not girls as doctors have recommended in the past.
Many children with the condition had surgery to make them look like girls, and parents were told by doctors to treat them like girls and never reveal that, genetically, they were male
Pastor to face trial for being lesbian
The US United Methodist's Northwest Committee on Investigation has voted to send lesbian minister Karen Dammann to an ecclesiastical trial.
Dammann, who had been serving as a pastor in Ellensburg, Washington, is charged with violating the Methodist Book of Discipline by conducting a life partnership with another woman. The official law bans "self-avowed, practicing, homosexuals" from serving as pastors.
James Madison Ends Ban on Emergency Contraception
After months of protest by students and reproductive health advocates, trustees of James Madison University in Virginia voted 10 to 2 earlier this month to reverse their decision to prohibit the campus health center from distributing emergency contraception. The trustees further granted "authority for all future health-related decisions pertaining to students to the administration and its staff," as opposed to the trustees
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Female teens seeking birth control are less likely to undergo pelvic exams. Doctors say that young women's dread of the invasive procedure prevents them from seeking not only contraceptive counseling, but gynecological care in general.
Take the word "teens" out of that, and you've just described me.
I know what you mean! It's such an uncomfortable thing, especially the way some doctors run their offices. Nobody really explains it to you, you're just expected to be ok with someone callously poking around your girly bits.
I don't blame women for being afraid or intimidated by that a bit.
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