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Angola’s Mendes Urges Making Wife-Beating a Crime

By Nosarieme Garrick ● Arts & Culture ● May 25, 2010

At 23, Susana Mendes became the first female editor in chief of Angola’s leading investigative weekly. The paper routinely covers domestic violence and she’s making a personal effort to pass a bill to treat it, for the first time, as a crime.

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TV Soap Dramatizes Islam’s Cultural Clashes

By Rima Abdelkader ● Arts & Culture ● May 24, 2010

“El Clon” is a tele-drama about a young woman’s effort to span her cultural and personal identities across modern and traditional Muslim societies. One New York fan says it offers great fodder for cross-cultural exchange.

Novartis Must Pay Up; Priest Denied Church Burial

By WeNews Staff ● Arts & Culture ● May 22, 2010

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Elena Kagan Hailed;Female Pols Sink in U.K.

By WeNews Staff ● Arts & Culture ● May 14, 2010

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Baseball Makes Play to Women, But Not as Players

By Regina Varolli ● Arts & Culture ● May 14, 2010

As part of its growing outreach to women, Major League Baseball will celebrate tennis great Billie Jean King this weekend for her promotion of gender equity in sports. But the Major Leagues still score zero when it comes to its own fielding of women, says one female player.

Lactation Breaks, Always Commendable, Are Now Law

By Molly Ginty ● Arts & Culture ● May 10, 2010

Working Mother magazine’s “Best Companies for Hourly Workers” all support employees who want to pump breast milk on the job, something health reform will start requiring of companies with more than 50 employees.

States Stall Anti-Choice Laws; Iran Resists CEDAW

By WeNews Staff ● Arts & Culture ● May 7, 2010

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(WOMENSENEWS)–Political authorities in Kansas and Oklahoma this week held the line against bills that would have further limited women’s access to abortion.

Atlanta Women’s Soccer Gets Stadium to Call Home

By Shahnaz Mahmud ● Arts & Culture ● May 5, 2010

The year-old Women’s Professional Soccer scores today when the Atlanta Beat unveils the first soccer-specific stadium for the league. The commissioner says the stadium demonstrates the new league’s franchise business approach.

Light Candles and Make Wish: Pill Hits 50th B-Day

By Elaine Tyler May ● Arts & Culture ● May 4, 2010

The pill wasn’t the magic drug many envisioned, but it has helped women gain more control over their lives, says Elaine Tyler May in her latest book, “America and the Pill.” In this excerpt, she shares the history of the pill that celebrates its 50th anniversary this week.

‘Sex and the City 2’ Extends Its Marketing Ploys

By Jennifer Merin ● Arts & Culture ● May 3, 2010

“Sex and the City 2,” opening at the end of the month, is grabbing the limelight among this month’s film releases. Carrie and crew take a girls-go-wild vacation to Abu Dhabi that, for political reasons, is really shot in Morocco.