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A month-long, women-only jazz festival winding up at New York’s Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola highlights the many talents of jazz’s female music-makers. Despite the high notes, women’s unequal status on the broader jazz scene is still being played out.
Female DJs are making it in a formerly man’s world. But while it’s no longer a novelty to see a woman on deck at a club, women still often feel pressured to prove they can spin, cut and scratch as well as the guys.
As the government shows more interest in seizing reproductive health histories, women are becoming more tight-lipped with doctors. The most recent governmental effort to access abortion records gained ground on May 30 in Indiana.
If those who fight for justice are truly blessed, then Angela Bonavoglia must be nearing sainthood. In “Good Catholic Girls,” she tells her own charged story and that of other faithful women who seek equality and reform from within the Catholic Church.
Rock ‘n’ roll camps for girls are spreading across the country like swamp pop fever, encouraging fledgling female rockers to turn up amplifiers, bang on drum sets, make raucous music and feel good about themselves.
Marta Rojas witnessed some of the most significant events in recent Cuban history while breaking new ground for women and swimming against the machismo tide of the Caribbean island.
Women’s choral groups are becoming increasingly popular in the United States as more women discover music written by and for women.
In five western states where women have little representation in the professional and political sectors, female-owned small enterprises are doing particularly well. A study suggests this is because women are finding less resistance there.
A network of women in New York provides temporary shelter to women who have no where to stay while they are in the city to undergo second-trimester abortions.
“Words of Choice” opens in Boston June 12. The dramatization exploring the “right to choose” abortion may be particularly charged after the arrest of suspected clinic bomber Eric Rudolph and last week’s House vote on so-called “partial-birth” abortion.