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Compared to 20 years ago, one doctor says the public is more likely to understand this as a mental illness that comes in various forms and can afflict anyone. But insurance barriers remain, particularly for inpatient treatment centers.
While adult educators say dress codes are good prep for the real world, female students say they are just designed to discourage male attention. “It’s not our responsibility to make sure boys aren’t distracted,” says one senior.
An Indiana case, which ended in a plea agreement, could have set a dangerous precedent of setting a separate legal standing for pregnant women if it had gone to trial, says one legal advocate. Meanwhile, doctors say that depression impacts up to 1-in-5 pregnant women.
A 21-year-old magazine editor in Australia joins a movement against women’s magazines that publish digitally altered images of super-thin models. Critics say these publications are literally sickening for young women vulnerable to eating disorders.
Only five of the 100 national teen teams competing at Saturday’s Team America Rocketry Challenge are all-female. One contestant said that doesn’t faze her–male competitors stopped intimidating her in grade school.
Thirty-plus years have passed. Now the director of federal contract compliance for the Department of Labor is focused on getting U.S. women a 7-percent piece of all skilled trade jobs performed, a goal first set in 1980.
Decades after the enactment of Title IX, two longtime gender-gap number crunchers can relax and celebrate the huge gain in women’s sports participation. But as they think about winding down, there’s still a big problem with coaching.
Jennifer Knapp and Marsha Stevens, both top-billed Christian singers at one point, went public about being lesbian decades apart. But Knapp’s recent rejection has been just as harsh as it was for Stevens in 1980.
Sharon Blair lost her daughter to an overdose of painkillers, an increasingly common cause of death in the U.S. She has successfully lobbied for an Indiana law that forces abusers into treatment programs and wants to do the same in Florida.