grrrly news 1/30/05
Most liberal-minded people rush to defend pornographers' right to free speech. Maybe we should stop and ponder what we are defending
Groundbreaking animated TV comedy The Simpsons will "out" one of its characters as gay this season, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Rabbis' help invoked to ensure abortion rights
Jewish groups are hoping to enlist rabbis in the struggle to ensure that abortion rights are not eroded during President Bush's second term.
A coalition of organizations, led by the National Council of Jewish Women, is asking rabbis across the country to sign a letter that would be sent to U.S. senators if a new Supreme Court nominee is announced, as is expected in the next few years.
Judge upholds traditional marriage
A federal judge in Florida yesterday rejected an effort to extend a Massachusetts same-sex marriage to the Sunshine State, thereby upholding the constitutionality of the federal Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA
In a provocative interview, Naomi Klein talks about Bush, the Iraq war and the need for progressives to “answer the language of faith with the language of morality.”
The 10 Worst Corporations of 2004
The year's most egregious price gougers, polluters, union-busters, dictator-coddlers, fraudsters, poisoners, deceivers and general miscreants.
A week before the elections, the streets of Baghdad are rife with confusion about candidates, calls for boycotts and the ever-present fear of violence.
Edward Kennedy explains why he voted against Condoleezza Rice's confirmation as Secretary of State today.
Watch Vanity Fair editor Judy Bachrach ambush Fox News anchor Bridgette Quinn who expected the garden-variety Fox pap while discussing the Bush inauguration festivities. Instead...
The confrontational founder of Women on Waves is determined to bring safe abortion services to women living in anti-choice countries – any way she can.
The children orphaned by the Asian tsunami are becoming easy targets for human trafficking rings
Leaders Say Vote Decides Equality for Iraqi Women
The fate of Iraqi women's rights will rest significantly on the outcome of today's historic election, say two female leaders. Zainab Al-Suwaij and Ala Talabani say the vote will decide whether women will really become equal citizens or lose their voices.
Women's Rights: Ready to Swim in Mainstream?
Do women need special champions or are they better served when general humanitarian groups commit to their interests? The topic takes on urgency after the U.N.'s leading women's rights group loses a key donor to so-called gender mainstreaming.
Female Entrepreneurs Win Notice for Taking Risk
Female entrepreneurs are sometimes presumed to be more averse to business risk than their male counterparts. But advocates say a study showing their actually high tolerance of risk is helping to clear the air.
Reporters Go Beyond Stewart to Cover Prison Trends
After Martha Stewart's prison-reform appeal, Sheila Gibbons wondered if journalists were neglecting the story of the rapid rise in female prisoners. Instead, she found great work--mostly by female journalists.
Cervical Cancer Tied to Secondhand Smoke
Exposure to secondhand smoke increases the risk of developing cervical cancer, a new study found. The data are especially crucial to women living in the developing nations, where smoking is on the rise.
TV Show Raises Grim Realities of Emotional Abuse
A husband-and-wife team on a reality-TV show offered the spectacle of an apparently emotionally abusive relationship. This type of abuse is not illegal and experts say many women who suffer it are not taken seriously
In disaster zone, women are key
larmed at the near total absence of women's voices in the post-tsunami recovery and reconstruction now taking place in Sri Lanka, a group of women's associations has quickly formed there. Led by Visaka Dharmadasa, founder of the Association of War Affected Women, they have established the Tsunami Women's Fund and demanded a seat at the table at meetings on policy for rebuilding their country.
Houzan Mahmoud: Why I am not taking part in these phoney elections
I am an Iraqi woman, and I am boycotting Sunday's elections. Women who do vote will be voting for an enslaved future. Surely, say those who support these elections, after decades of tyranny, here at last is a form of democracy, imperfect, but democracy nevertheless?
US staff lose jobs over smoke ban
Four workers in the United States have lost their jobs after refusing to take a test to see if they were smokers.
Actress Stone raises fast million
ctress Sharon Stone has collected $1m (£530,000) to fight malaria in five minutes at an impromptu fund-raiser.
Forced to take part in experiments
Auschwitz survivor, 80-year-old Ima Spanjaard, remembers how her youth was interrupted when she was taken to the concentration camp in 1942, and forced to assist in some horrific experiments on other women prisoners.
Domestic abuse shows 10% increase
The number of domestic abuse incidents recorded by police (in Scotland) has increased by 10%, according to latest figures.
Developing world births 'falling'
Women in the developing world now give birth to fewer than four children on average, according to a major United Nations study on fertility.
For some women in London the rise in equal opportunities in the work place is not moving fast enough, forcing increasing numbers to go it alone
Japan debates female succession
A Japanese government panel has started debating whether women could take the throne in response to a succession crisis in the Imperial Household.
Tracing the last WWII heroines
A search has begun to find Britain's surviving World War II heroines before a monument to them is unveiled in July.
Female governor, two senators mean women rule in state
Never before has a state had a woman in the governor's mansion and both U.S. Senate seats. Also, all of the state Senate's leadership positions are held by women.
Women encouraged to wear red Friday
Wear Red Day, as it is called, is a component of Go Red For Women, the association's national campaign to raise awareness of heart disease in women and encourage women to take charge of their health.
Hollywood tries to turn women's boxing into something it isn't
You see, Rijker is too real for Hollywood's portrayal of women's boxing, a fantasy world where Swank knocks out 12 straight opponents in the first round and then splits a million dollar title fight purse with the ferocious looking Rijker.
WONDER WOMEN, Local home improvement stores headed by female managers
Thirty years ago, people took note as women became managers. Today, as marketing trends show the highly-charged purchasing power of women, companies strive to reflect their customer bases in their workforces. Statistics show that more and more women are becoming managers.
More black women putting off kids to focus on career
More and more black women like her are waiting longer to have children, one of the reasons that the fertility rate has plummeted among blacks since the past decade.
Fertility rates have declined for American women of all races, but an analysis of birth and fertility data shows that the downward trend has been more noticeable and consistent for black women than for any other racial or ethnic group.
Militia Kills 16, Kidnaps 34 Girls in the East
Militiamen armed with guns and machetes killed 16 people and kidnapped at least 34 girls in attacks last week in a remote area of eastern Congo, a U.N. spokesman said.
Women told, 'Work
in brothel, or else'
A provision in the German welfare system is forcing out-of-work women to chose between taking jobs in the sex industry or losing their unemployment benefits.
Once one of the most generous systems in Europe, Germany's unemployment program has been reformed to require those out of work to take jobs for which they are qualified, or lose benefits. In the case of women, females below the age of 55 who have been out of work for a year or more must take any available job offered.
Bunny Flap: PBS Yanks Cartoon Featuring Lesbian Couples
A homosexual advocacy group says President Bush's new education secretary is promoting ignorance about families headed by same-sex couples. The education secretary says PBS is going too far in featuring same-sex couples in kids' cartoons
Bank of America survey asks workers about sexual orientation
Bank of America is urging its more than 175,000 employees to fill out an online survey about job satisfaction. Question 64 asks respondents to "indicate which one of the following best describes yourself."
Iran allows women to run for presidency
Women can run in June's presidential election, Iran's legislative watchdog said yesterday, clearing up an ambiguous article of the constitution
Iran's constitution says candidates should be "rejal," an Arabic word for men
What's wrong with the World's Oldest Mum?
t might be selfish and unnatural - but a woman in her 60s should have the choice to have a child.
Do genes play a role in science gender gap?
Harvard president Lawrence Summers created a firestorm this month when he suggested that may be the case. Studies indeed show that men's and women's brains aren't exactly the same. The question is whether those differences matter.
Pakistani doctor's alleged rape prompts new calls for women's rights
A string of horrific sexual abuse cases in Pakistan, including the alleged gang rape of a female doctor by an army captain and three security guards, has sparked fresh calls for action to tackle widespread violence against women.
SOMEONE send a map to the feminists: They ended up in Cambridge when they should have been in Washington D.C.
Social Security: The Female Problem
As the public debate intensifies over the Bush administration's drive to privatize Social Security, women have a special stake in the outcome.
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