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October 16, 2004 07:36 AM posted by lisa : track it (0)

Muslim cleric wants 'women of mass destruction'

In a tape seized by authorities, radical Islamic cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri is heard urging Muslim women to breed children for the purpose of creating suicide bombers.

Names of high school students to go to military unless parents opt out

Names, phone numbers and other information about Seattle high school students must be provided to the Defense Department on request -- unless parents opt out in writing by Saturday.

The No Child Left Behind Act, an expansive education reform bill passed two years ago, requires high schools across the country to release information about juniors and seniors to military recruiters and to give them the same access to students as college recruiters and prospective employers.

Secular Iraq Women Take Up the Head Scarf

Many women who bared their heads and dressed in Western-style clothes in Saddam Hussein's secular Iraq have started covering up — some out of Islamic devotion, others in a desperate bid to shield themselves from the torrent of violence that has swept the country since the dictator's fall.

Harvard faculty push gender issue

A group of more than 50 senior Harvard University professors met with president Lawrence H. Summers yesterday to ask him to reverse a sharp drop in senior job offers to female professors during his three-year presidency

Silence over Afghan women's rights

Forty per cent of the registered voters for Saturday's presidential election in Afghanistan are women - so why is there so little debate about women's rights?

China protester tortured: report

A WOMAN campaigning against China's stern one-child policy was suffering brutal treatment in detention, a New York-based rights group said today.

Mao Hengfeng, a Shanghai resident and a mother of two, is serving an 18-month labor camp sentence and had been subjected to torture, Human Rights in China said.

Where are all the women judges?

Women and ethnic minorities are noticeable by their absence from the ranks of the country's top judges.

Pill reminders forwarded by text

Young women from the age of 15 are being sent mobile phone text reminders to take the contraceptive pill.

Rape 'a weapon in Colombia war'

Women and girls are being increasingly caught up in Colombia's armed conflict, as rival groups rape, mutilate and kill them, Amnesty International says.

Technology's gender balancing act

Technology has come a long way since the washing machine, but somewhere along the line it lost relevance to women. Now gadget makers are striving to win back the female market.

Landmark ruling on abortion

A landmark judgement means fewer Northern Ireland women may have to travel to England for an abortion.

Elfriede Jelinek experimental, feminist writer

Austrian Elfriede Jelinek, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, is an experimental, feminist writer whose works have provoked controversy.

Procter & Gamble boycott builds momentum

early a quarter-of-a-million people have signed a pledge to boycott Procter & Gamble products because of the company's policy on homosexual rights. As WorldNetDaily reported, the American Family Association and James Dobson's Focus on the Family are promoting the boycott of the Cincinnati-based company for its efforts to overturn a local law barring special rights to homosexuals.

Female Muslim Comics Twist Bias into Comic Jabs

A small band of female Muslim comics are breaking cultural and gender stereotypes on stages across the country with a diverse set of convictions and comedic styles. The personal has never seemed so political as when these women crack a joke.

Big Tobacco Baits Young Women with Fruit Flavors

Big Tobacco is baiting young female smokers with fruit-flavored cigarettes. That's why the bill to ban flavor additives to cigarettes--now in congressional debate--deserves prompt support.

Women's Vote in 2004 Remains Great Unknown

From cell phones that leave many young women out of pollsters' reach to disputable theories about a "marriage gap" and how the war is affecting female voters, pollsters wonder where the powerful women's vote is heading in this election.

Pollsters Call 'Security Moms' a Myth

"Security moms" have caught the imagination of political pundits and reporters in this year's presidential campaign, but do they really exist? Pollsters say it's a myth and that women are leaning towards Kerry.

Jewish Women Reach Out in Former Soviet Union

Project Kesher's mandate is to spur Jewish revival in the Former Soviet Union. But the group also reaches out to women of all backgrounds, believing that interfaith connections can ease growing ethnic tensions and curb anti-Semitism.

Home school parents sue state over religious freedom

two weeks ago, the Combses filed a lawsuit in Indiana County asking the court to declare Pennsylvania's home-schooling requirements unconstitutional under the 2002 Religious Freedom Protection Act.

That act says that all state laws must avoid "the imposition of substantial burdens upon the free exercise of religion without compelling justification."

The Combs, one of four Pennsylvania families who have filed similar claims across the state, believe the home-schooling law restricts their religious freedom in a way that violates the law.

Militants force local women to wed foreign fighters

A "brides for jihad" campaign has been launched by Islamic militants in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, intimidating local families into offering their daughters to foreign fighters waging war on America and its allies.

'Supermoms' draw line in sandbox

Every year, thousands of working mothers rip the S off their chests. That's because today's moms are rejecting the Supermom model -- the career woman who seamlessly pulls marathon workweeks while managing her household and rearing children. While women two decades ago were working to prove they were equal to men -- and could have it all -- working mothers today say that battle has been won or never will be. And they are unwilling to sacrifice time with their children to make the point.

Women on the defensive: Many take advantage of free self defense classes

Amid fears that rapist who terrorized MetroWest last year has returned, women throughout the region are searching for ways to protect themselves.
Among those options are free self-defense classes, offered by martial arts instructors and police officers.

Kerry Defends His Reference to Cheney's Lesbian Daughter

Senator John Kerry said yesterday that his reference to Vice President Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter Mary in this week's debate was made "constructively and respectfully," even as the White House press secretary said the president did "not believe it was appropriate."

Shameful For Kerry To Insert Lesbian Issue - And Response

Argue anything you want, tell me how much you hate our President, how much you disagree with him, but I saw the lowest of the low from the Democrat candidate tonight.

John Kerry actually went after VP Richard Cheney's daughter! "She is a lesbian," Kerry chortled. How the heck does a presidential candidate get away with bringing in the sexual orientation of one of the candidates kids into the debate?

Just Us Girls give to ailing women

Ten years ago, when five area women decided they wanted to help others, they couldn't have known that their efforts eventually would reach hundreds of women.

Nor could they know that Just Us Girls -- the group the five formed -- would give those women something besides a tangible gift: hope and a brief respite from worry.

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