Mindy Kay Bricker, Author at Women's eNews

EU Pay Case Opens Legal Door on Wage Gap

By Mindy Kay Bricker ● Politics ● January 15, 2007

A U.K. labor union plans to bring a barrage of cases that will test the significance for female workers of a recent European Court of Justice decision. Advocates hope it will ease the penalty for taking time out of the paid work force.

Activists Blow Trafficking Whistle on World Cup

By Mindy Kay Bricker ● Arts & Culture ● June 6, 2006

Germany expects 3 million soccer fans during the World Cup tournament over the next month. That has provoked concern about the trafficking of women into the country, which legalized prostitution in 2002.

Project Lifts Curtain on East Bloc Women’s Past

By Mindy Kay Bricker ● Uncategorized ● February 27, 2006

The untold stories of everyday women in the former Soviet bloc are being brought out from behind the curtain of obscurity. A women’s oral history project has been going on for 10 years and spans at least eight countries.

After Genocide, Women’s Work Is to Rebuild

By Mindy Kay Bricker ● Uncategorized ● July 17, 2005

Last week thousands visited the field in Bosnia and Herzegovina where husbands, sons and brothers were killed in the largest European genocide since World War II. Now the women of Srebrenica go back to making life’s work out of devastation.

In Czech Schools, B Is for Biased Books

By Mindy Kay Bricker ● Arts & Culture ● June 15, 2005

A Czech initiative to study schoolbooks for gender bias wrapped up late last year. Activists see the government effort as a step in the right direction. Seventh in a series on women and education.

Czech Republic, Germany Battle Over Sex Traffic

By Mindy Kay Bricker ● Uncategorized ● March 26, 2004

As the May deadline for the Czech Republic’s European Union entry approaches, the issue of girls and prostitution along the border between Germany and the Czech Republic has become a source of controversy.

Women from Post-Conflict Countries Meet in Vienna

By Mindy Kay Bricker ● Arts & Culture ● November 13, 2003

Women Without Borders opens today its first international conference in Vienna. Focusing on women from post-conflict countries, planners hope the two-day meeting will give participants strength in numbers and fortify democracy around the world.

Roma Women Organize to Fight Triple Bias

By Mindy Kay Bricker ● Uncategorized ● July 3, 2003

Roma women are banding together to fight the triple bias that increases their rates of poverty and shortens their life span by as much as 17 years. The new organization of Roma women is the first to involve representatives from across Europe.

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