About 222 million women in the developing world do not have access to contraception. Birth control isn’t just good for women, says one advocacy group, it’s key to economic prosperity.
The only federal program dedicated to family planning will be critical to the job of providing and expanding women’s health care under the Affordable Care Act. But several states are attempting to restrict Title X at the very time it is needed most.
Every day dozens of Syrian female refugees living in Jordan sign up to return home. Some say they can’t make ends meet living abroad. Others want to find male relatives who didn’t make it through the border or were left behind.
The Supreme Court said stores must restrict sales of acid used to maim at least 1,000 women a year, but that deadline was just blown. Most names and identifying details in this article have been changed to protect the privacy of the victims.
There are a growing number of Latinas, and other women of color, in office, defying expectations and explanations, says Christina E. Bejarano in this excerpt from “The Latina Advantage.”
The family friendly ordinance passed this month gives workers with caregiving responsibilities the right to request changes to their working conditions, including requests for predictable scheduling. A similar law was also passed in Vermont.
The four women running for gubernatorial reelection are playing up their accomplishments like all incumbents. But on this remaining frontier of female political leadership this emphasis is considered particularly important. The second of two stories.
A retired female tennis pro sees nothing wrong with players such as Maria Sharapova and the Williams sisters using “all their assets.” Younger players, meanwhile, rave over some of their outfits. But a trainer regrets the trend in exposing more flesh.
Under the leadership of Taina Bien-Aime, the Women’s City Club is monitoring the sex harassment case of two seasonal workers in the New York Parks Department, signaling a new emphasis and direction for the good-governance group.
The GOP’s steady drumbeat of laws restricting abortion signals the party’s strategy to make an election issue out of a social issue that–unlike same-sex marriage –still finds Americans still deeply divided.
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