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June 6, 2004 09:58 AM posted by lisa : track it (0)

U.S. ban on abortion procedure ruled unconstitutional
A U.S. federal judge Tuesday declared the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional, saying the measure infringes on a woman's right to choose.
The ruling applies to Planned Parenthood clinics and their doctors, who perform roughly half the nation's abortions.

Teens Getting Breast Implants for Graduation
More teens are ignoring health risks and requesting breast implants as a Sweet 16 or high school graduation gift.

Fewer Ob-Gyns Leave Women Less Access to Care
The question, "Is there a doctor in the house?" is more likely to be answered in the negative when the doctor needed is an obstetrician

Medicaid Coverage Disappears for Low Income Women
In the third article of a series on health insurance and women, Women's eNews examines a new report that shows states are restricting Medicaid coverage for low-income women.

Network Bankrolls Search for Funds in Grassroots
The Women's Funding Network is spending $1 million over the next four years to help put more women--particularly women of color, younger women, lesbians and rural women--inside the donors' circle.

Energize the Women's Vote in 2004
Twenty years ago Geraldine Ferraro raised the electoral profile and hopes of women. But with women still representing so much untapped potential--both as voters and candidates--candidates this summer should focus on energizing the women's vote.

Women's Ku Klux Klan flounders in Indiana
The first wave of white supremacist activity of the Ku Klux Klan came after Reconstruction, rallying the defeated sons of the Confederacy. The second arose at the end of the First World War and this time, it not only spread to the North and Midwest, but included large numbers of recently enfranchised women eager to rid American life of "impurities" like blacks, Catholics and Jews.

S.D. Elects Woman; Cardinal Law Gets Sinecure
For the first time in South Dakota's history, the state's voters are sending a woman to Congress. Tuesday, pro-choice candidate Stephanie Herseth, a Democrat, won by a slim margin with 132,377 votes to 129,396 for her Republican opponent Larry Diedrich
The Vatican announced a new, prestigious post to the Boston cleric who was forced to resign after a long series of sex abuse scandals involving Boston's Catholic clergy.
Last week, Bernard F. Law, the former leader of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, was chosen by Pope John Paul II to head a basilica in Rome. The job, as the archpriest of St. Mary Major Basilica, pays $12,000 a month and is under the direct jurisdiction of the Pope

The Maharani of Muck
Shobhaa De, perhaps better known here as the Maharani of Muck or the Princess of Porn, is India's most commercially successful English-language author. It's a crazy claim for a 56-year-old middle-class Indian woman – one who describes herself as a "traditional" mother to six children – to be able to make. But sex sells, even in one of the world's most socially conservative countries. Bucking all convention, for years De has dared to write lusty, shocking sex scenes, and from a female point of view. In a country where women rarely bare more than two inches of leg and hardly ever file for divorce, she writes about women who, like herself, flee marriages because they are bored. De is author of more than a dozen titles, all of which start with the letter "s" (Sultry Days, Starry Nights, Strange Obsession – you get the point) and all of which depict a level of privilege that most of India's more than 1 billion impoverished masses cannot even imagine.

Celebrating Women's Sports, One Image at a Time
Title IX has drastically increased the numbers of women and girls participating in sports in schools. One astounding measurement comes from the National Federation of State High School Associations, which reports that the number of girls playing sports in high school increased by 847 percent — from fewer than 300,000 to more than 2.78 million — from 1971 to 2001.

A guide just for women at work
Every time women accept one of these tasks, "we perpetuate the stereotype that a professional woman's role is to nurture, care for and serve others at work," Lois P. Frankel warns in "Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office 101" (Warner Books, 2004),
In fact, Frankel argues that a key reason that women don't get ahead in the business world is they are too eager to be liked, to be cooperative, to avoid conflict and confrontation. She urges women to become more like men and less like "girls."

Same skills, different salary
If a woman wants to make more money than a man, her job options are severely limited. She could clean up hazardous waste. Or install telecommunications lines.
But not much else.
The Census Bureau compiled statistics on hundreds of job categories from its 2000 head count and found just five where women typically earn at least as much as men.

Is Ladies Night discriminatory?
It's known as Ladies Night, where women get in for a discounted rate and pay less for drinks while men...well they pay full price.
But recently in New Jersey a civil rights official ruled that Ladies Nights are discriminatory.

Women Snack When Noise Frustrates
Women who are frustrated by loud, stressful noise seem to snack more, new research reports.
Investigators found that women who were exposed to uncontrollable noises while trying to solve math problems became frustrated by the noise more often than women who had control over the sound. Moreover, women who became frustrated by the experiment were also more likely to snack than women who were less frustrated.

Wal-Mart promises to try harder to promote women
Wal-Mart Stores, facing lawsuits for alleged gender bias and unfair treatment of workers, pledged Friday to work harder to promote women to management and announced a new pay system for hourly employees.
CEO Lee Scott told employees and shareholders at the company's annual meeting that executive bonuses, including his own, would be cut up to 7.5 percent this year and 15 percent next year if the company does not meet its goals for promoting women. The aim is to promote women and minorities in proportion to the number that apply for management positions.

Boot camp opens doors to girls
More than 3,000 juveniles were referred to Cameron County’s Juvenile Justice System last year, and about 700 of them were girls.

Of those juveniles, the boot camp can only hold 72 boys and eight girls. With such little space, boot camp prospects are usually repeat offenders in danger of being sent off to the Texas Youth Commission, the state’s version of prison for juvenile criminals

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