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grrrly news 10/3

October 3, 2004 07:29 AM posted by lisa : track it (0)

What Women Want
Contrary to the media babble about "security moms," the issues most important to women voters are also John Kerry's greatest strengths

The Security Mom Myth
The idea of security moms profoundly misrepresents who women are and what they worry about politically

Angel of the Youth Vote
Drew Barrymore sets out to find out why young people aren't voting

Sentenced to Be Raped
In June 2002, the police say, members of a high-status tribe sexually abused one of Ms. Mukhtaran's brothers and then covered up their crime by falsely accusing him of having an affair with a high-status woman. The village's tribal council determined that the suitable punishment for the supposed affair was for high-status men to rape one of the boy's sisters, so the council sentenced Ms. Mukhtaran to be gang-raped.

Public schools no place for teachers' kids
More than 25 percent of public school teachers in Washington and Baltimore send their children to private schools, a new study reports.

EU to force insurance hike on women drivers
Women would be forced to pay hundreds of pounds more for their car insurance under new EU anti-sexism laws expected to come under heavy fire from a parliamentary inquiry this week.
Female drivers are charged up to 30 per cent less than male drivers because they have fewer crashes. They also pay less for life insurance, because they are less likely to die young

Streets of despair
Majlinda was just 13 when she was snatched from her Albanian village and sold into the sex industry. Ed Vulliamy meets some of the thousands of children trafficked to the West every month

Martha Stewart Joins Many Women Behind Bars
Martha Stewart may be the headline-grabber, but numerous other women also make their home behind bars. In fact, women are the fastest-growing segment of the population in federal penitentiaries and state prisons

Anti-Choice Dems Say It's Their Party Too
Anti-choice Democrats are fighting for inclusion in their party and say they should not be ignored as Democrats battle for control of the House and Senate.

Stem Cells May Swing Voters
Embryonic stem cells have the potential to cure devastating diseases. With women more likely to support further research on stem cells, the issue may also have the potential to widen gender gap this presidential election

Campaign Coverage Ignores Women's Concerns
Campaign coverage is largely ignoring the issues that matter most to women. To correct that, Sheila Gibbons offers reporters a look at what women want from a president and advice on chasing down the story between now and Election Day.

Granny D Fights Uphill Battle for Senate Seat
Doris Haddock, the 94-year-old Democratic candidate for New Hampshire's U.S. seat, is fighting an uphill battle in her campaign. But Granny D says her emphasis on social policy may cause voters to change their mind come Election Day.

Chinese Woman Should Get Asylum From Forced Abortions, Court Rules
After being denied political asylum, a Chinese woman frequently moved between friends' houses in New York City and Chicago fearing should could be deported at any time. Now, Xia Lin's life on the run may be over thanks to a federal appeals court decision saying she does not have to return to China, where she faces a third forced abortion.
Lin says that the Chinese government forced her to abort two pregnancies under its coercive family planning policies and will subject her to involuntary sterilization if she is forced to return to China.

Chest challenged chicks
ring in bigger breasts
Some of the silly tunes Japanese pay to download to use as the ring tone for their mobile phones sure have their knockers, but it's for precisely that reason that a well-known counselor is raking it in at the moment, according to Shukan Gendai

Female Baptist Pastor Leads to Controversy
Katrina Brooks always felt a calling from God but wasn't sure how to fulfill it. A Baptist, Brooks spent years as a hospital chaplain and assisting her husband in his ministerial duties, but never felt completely satisfied in those roles. It wasn't until she was in her late 30s that she realized she wanted to lead a congregation as a senior pastor.

Duke Feminist Gives Thumbs Up To Taliban
Afghanistan’s Taliban was one of the most oppressive regimes in the world, and doubly so when it came to women’s rights. For years, various activists expressed concern about the situation of Afghan women and supported the efforts of RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan [1], to try and affect reform. So when the opportunity arose to overthrow that brutal regime, it was expected that RAWA activists would naturally back the insurrection

Bulgarian Trafficking Victims Face Hard Homecoming

Bulgaria is already seeing the outcomes of the first legislation passed to combat trafficking, a problem which affects tens of thousands of women in the Eastern European country. But despite these advances, public sympathy for the victims remains low.

Rosie to Try Radio
Will Rosie O'Donnell be the next Rush Limbaugh or Dr. Laura — by going on radio where the really big bucks are?

Troops say proposed UCMJ change unfair in prostitution-legal Germany
Troops stationed in Germany are seeing red over the Pentagon’s proposal to add an anti-prostitution charge to the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and it’s not just the glow from the local red light district.
Military personnel and their families on Rhein Main Air Base, only minutes from one of the largest red light districts in the world, are angered by the Department of Defense announcement to change the UCMJ. Those interviewed largely agree that Germany is not the place to enforce such a law.

GOP urges a vote on same-sex marriage ban
Some see it as effort to stress gay issues
Republican leaders pressed for a House vote Thursday on a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage they acknowledge will fail by a wide margin but will force members to vote on the issue less than five weeks before the election.

Parents of 4 searched at school file suit
A Bronx school employee forced four fourth-grade boys accused of stealing a teacher's ring to strip to their underwear and jump up and down, the boys' parents alleged in a federal lawsuit yesterday.

'For decades we've been told Sweden is a great place to be a working parent. But we've been duped'
Adopting Scandinavian-style family policies may not be such a good idea, academic Catherine Hakim tells Joanna Moorhead

Tender terrorists?
THIS IS the story that jump-starts my week: A group of insurgents has threatened to kill three hostages unless Americans release all female Iraqi prisoners. Just female prisoners.
Choose 'safe, legal and rare'
The pro-choice crusade needs a new focus. Instead of using bumper-sticker tactics that seem to mock the painful decisions that accompany termination of a pregnancy, pro-choice activists should start a campaign to make abortion -- as Bill Clinton once said -- safe, legal and rare.

Female Trouble
While fretting about Karl Rove, the Democrats overlooked Karen Hughes. How she—and Laura Bush—are winning the election for W.

For young women today, feminism and politics are dirty words
If you're a feminist and you've lived long enough to see bell bottoms come in and out of style twice, this book is bound to bum you out. But read "The F-Word: Feminism in Jeopardy — Women, Politics and the Future" (Seal Press, 302 pp., $14.95) anyway; it's got more unvarnished, useful truths per page than anything else you're likely to encounter during this political season.

Forum: Feminist worldview in media
It's no secret the fem-liberal worldview permeates the Old Media. The Sisterhood doesn't even bother denying it any more. Here's Susan Winston, former executive producer of "Good Morning America": "We were feminists. We were liberals, and most of us still are."

A new condescension greets women voters
NO ELECTION campaign is ever complete without talk about the gender gap, women voters, and the candidates' attempts to compete for their affections. This year, the women's vote is especially important since the election is likely to be a close one. And at least for now, women are confounding political experts by deserting the Democrats: In some recent polls, they are actually leaning in Bush's favor.

Women and child sellers get death in China
China has cracked a 36-member gang that kidnapped and sold 96 women and children over a dozen years, sentencing two to death and handing the others at least two years' jail time, state media said on Sunday.

Women eye literature prize
Women writers, long overlooked by the Swedish Academy which each year awards the Nobel Literature Prize, could be well-placed to take home the honours this year, observers said, citing Algeria's Assia Djebar, Joyce Carol Oates of the United States and Dane Inger Christensen as potential winners.

Women, minorities still have small presence in boardrooms
Four years into the 21st century and most corporate boards still look like they did 100 years ago — what one expert called "mostly pale, stale and male."
It's true, times have changed. More women and people of color are joining the ranks of public-company directors, but in small and sometimes inconsistent increments.

Muslim women come together to challenge stereotypes
A group of Muslim women from different countries will hold a special month-long arts festival here to challenge stereotypical views in the US about the community.

Women are not cancer-aware
ONE Welsh woman in four is worryingly unaware about how to monitor her body for the early signs of breast cancer.
A survey to mark the start of breast cancer awareness month found 25% of women are confused about what it means to be breast aware.

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