Grrrly News 3/13/05
Current Events
GOP Senators Seek Victory on Abortion Vote
Their ranks strengthened in last fall's elections, Senate Republicans are seeking victory on the first abortion-related vote of the new Congress, one day after rejecting any increase in the minimum wage.
U.S. Engages in Tug-of-War at Beijing Plus 10
As delegates across the globe assess the progress of women in the past decade, the United States delegation created uproars by trying to amend the basic document with anti-abortion language. Fifth in a seven-part series on the Beijing Platform.
Foreigners Vie to Adopt Black U.S. Babies
The State Department says the number of Americans adopting babies from overseas has more than doubled in the last 10 years, with couples often citing a dearth of American babies.
But there are plenty of American babies who need homes — African-American babies. And more and more of those children are finding homes abroad, especially in Canada, according to people who work in the U.S. adoption field.
Wal-Mart Jobs and African-American Dreams
The Wal-Mart model of low costs, underwritten by low wages, has cast a shadow on Dr. King's dreams of an American economy that provides stability and prosperity for all workers.
Seven Mistakes Superheroines Make
Why the latest action-babe flicks flopped. Fighting demons: good. Fighting inner demons: bad.
Newsweek's latest cover features a fake photo of Martha Stewart – any wonder people are losing faith in the news?
A week without women? Reality show stirs up town
In Britain, where “Big Brother” and many other reality TV concepts were born, the drive to come up with the next smash series has left a village divided.
The BBC had arranged to remove the womenfolk from Harby in northern England for seven days to see how their men managed without them for a new show called “The Week the Women Went.”
Women Around the World
Apron-wearing women storm parliament
Protesting women wearing aprons and waving kitchen utensils invaded a parliament building in Brazil.
They staged their protest at Sorocaba after a local MP made sexist comments, reports Estado de Sao Paulo
Turkey vows probe into clashes at women's demo
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul announced an investigation into what the EU termed "disproportionate" use of force by the Istanbul police as it quashed a women's demonstration.
Sex-Assault Continues Unchecked in Congo
In the jungles and border towns of eastern Congo, a civil war staggers on, largely ignored. So far tens of thousands of women and girls have been sexually assaulted during this humanitarian crisis, according to Human Rights Watch.
Lesbian Activists in Jamaica Tell Horror Stories
Lesbian advocates in Jamaica are reaching out to the world, bringing public attention to conditions that make them fearful, even in their own neighborhoods
Russian Women Struggle to Survive Domestic Violence
In Russia, 14,000 women are killed each year in acts of domestic violence, and human rights activists are dissatisfied with the government's enforcement of laws against the crime. Sixth in a seven-part series on the Beijing Platform.
Saudi Women Push Dialogue on Rights
On International Women's Day, Rita Henley Jensen reflects on her recent trip to Saudi Arabia, where feisty, educated women are challenging the nation's system of strict gender apartheid.
Taking the Gender Apartheid Tour in Saudi Arabia
Women's eNews Editor in Chief Rita Henley Jensen traveled to Saudi Arabia, to attend an economic forum. She was aware of the many restrictions on women, but once there, appreciated for the first time that the nation practiced gender apartheid
Japan WWII sex slave redress call
Taiwanese women forced to become sex slaves by the Japanese during World War II are campaigning for Japan to take legal responsibility for the crime.
Rape ruling in Pakistan suspended
An Islamic court in Pakistan has suspended a High Court ruling that acquitted five men in a high-profile rape case.
Cash offer to one-girl families
Families having a single girl child in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh will be given 100,000 rupees ($2,300) in an attempt to boost the female population.
In Săo Paulo the march counted on the presence of 35 a thousand women, about 110 buses had all come of the country bringing women of diverse social movements. It was organized in sections of solidarity, equality, justice and peace, freedom having represented the axles of the Letter
Ten years after the U.N. recognized that women's participation in media was a critical area of concern, trailblazers in rural India are telling stories from the margins of society.
Women Voters Turning Against Blair - Poll
Women voters have turned against Tony Blair despite Labour’s family-friendly policies, a poll revealed today.
Women singers continue to dominate Viet Nam’s music scene, while male singers struggle in the background.
Voices
Hillary Rodham Clinton criticizes Bush abortion stance
The Bush administration's policy of withholding aid from overseas groups that perform abortions is hurting women and forcing clinics to close, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday.
For Women, Violence a Universal Threat
As the media buzzed about whether the U.S. would sign onto an important document, women at the actual U.N. meeting focused on violence against women around the world. Last in a seven-part series on the Beijing Platform.
What began with a murder outside a Belfast bar has escalated into the biggest crisis faced by Irish Republicanism in recent years. But just why have Robert McCartney's five sisters made such a huge impact?
When I first heard it, about two weeks ago, it sounded like an American propaganda radio station, complete with announcers with American accents (female)and announcing that this was an historic breakthrough, a new radio station-for women
Women in Hand-to-Hand Combat: The Atlanta Incident
The murder of a judge, court recorder, and a deputy on Friday morning in Atlanta might have never happened if two issues had been addressed years ago, without the politically correct remedy that some saw as the ticking time-bomb it turned out to be.
1. There are some jobs women can do.
2. There are jobs women shouldn’t do.
I’m sure that I’m inviting a Larry Summers response, but someone has to say it.
Lily Tomlin's Evolutionary Career
Together Tomlin and Wagner—who wrote the scripts for most of Tomlin’s routines, including 1985’s Tony-winning one woman show, The Search for Signs…(which Tomlin successfully revived in 2000)—are rather famously partners in life and love as well as in comedy. The Gay and Lesbian Center in Los Angeles even established a new performing arts center in the couple’s name: The Lily Tomlin Jane Wagner Cultural Arts Center, and proceeds from ticket sales there go to providing health services for HIV positive patients.
Health Issues
Chemical Soup and Federal Loopholes
Toxic cosmetics ingredients were recently banned in the European Union. Here in the U.S., the $35 billion cosmetics industry is fighting a similar ban tooth and nail.
China begins HIV vaccine trials
China has begun its first human trials of a new HIV vaccine, the state news agency Xinhua news agency reports.
Breast- and bottle-feeding: Is 'better' always best?
When new mothers find that 'informed choice' is no choice at all, it's time for a real debate.
Smoking, drinking among young white women high
"Women at Risk: The Health of Women in New York City," structured around the city's Take Care New York health policy, found that almost a third of college-age white women report having smoked "at least 100 cigarettes" in their lifetime, compared to 1 in 10 of their black counterparts and one in five Hispanics.
Costs Keeping Lesbians From Health Care
A new national survey shows that health care costs and the lack of adequate health insurance are the most common reasons why lesbians have delayed obtaining health care.
Science and Technology
A `geek girl' sees doors opening again
n the late 1990s, when she co-founded software start-up Marimba, Kim Polese was a poster child of the new high-tech economy, landing glamour shots in magazines from Vogue to the Red Herring.
Sundaes and Science aimed at girls
Whether it's learning about the habitats of bats or giving a health check to a golden retriever, fifth- through eighth-grade girls and their moms will have a opportunity to experiment with science without having their male counterparts around.
Business and Financial
Better time-off deal is cold comfort for new parents
More help for working families is likely to be a strong theme of Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown's Budget on Wednesday. The Government has just begun consulting on more generous benefits for mothers and fathers when their children are born. And Brown remains convinced tax credits for parents are the right way to help families in work.
Feminist Pork: Marketing Misery and Fear
The issue of intimate partner abuse has been reduced to the level of an advertising campaign. Utilizing techniques most often used to market sportswear and household cleaners, major corporations and entertainers are now allowed to benefit financially from the propagation of misinformation and fear.
Networking event offers women a comfort zone
With their first "women-only" business after-hours function on Thursday, women at the Greater Southington Chamber of Commerce are increasingly networking among themselves to promote female business ownership
Married Women Stuck With McJobs
With their husbands’ jobs insecure and household debts and education expenditures mounting, a growing number of Korean mothers look for low-paid and grueling so-called McJobs. The number of married women working in casual jobs increased by 150,000 over five years from 536,990 in 1999 to 688,000 in 2003. Another statistic shows that as of late last year, 31,000 married women tried to find a job.
Religion
Judge: Christian frat
can ban homosexuals
A federal court has ordered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to reinstate a Christian fraternity which had been denied recognition because its officers refused to sign the university's nondiscrimination policy requiring the group to allow homosexuals to join
Much of the religious right's agenda is in direct contradiction to Christ's own teachings – and most devout Christians know it.
Muslim Women Can Lead Some Prayers: Scholars
Muslim women can lead women in prayers, and children in supererogatory prayers, but they are not allowed to lead the Friday prayer, which is not obligatory on women, said a member of IslamOnline.net's Fatwa team.
The Next Generation
A high school senior has her picture rejected from the yearbook because she's wearing a tuxedo. In most schools, it's still true that blue is for boys, and pink is for girls. What about the kids in lavender?
The children featured in Born into Brothels are growing up fast. Filmmakers Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman hope to give them some tools to navigate with.
Comprehensive Sex Ed Helps Teens Make Smart Choices
We hope our health classes would at least provide the facts. But the truth is, many schools use “abstinence-only” sexuality education, which means that a lot of vital information is either deleted—or worse—distorted.
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