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A new study details the issues facing New York City’s women of color–now a majority in the epicenter of diversity. While each group has distinct experiences, they share the common experiences of poverty and inadequate education and health care.
A presidential commission begins hearings Tuesday on Title IX, the federal law that requires schools to provide equal opportunity in sports to both genders. The commission has issued a list of questions that puts advocates for women on edge.
At a recent off-off-Broadway festival, the brightest stars were two women writers who are the exception to the rule that women playwrights, composers and theater directors are finding fewer opportunities.
Confronted by often desperate circumstances back home, West African women are bucking their traditional roles and seeking better lives in the United States–often without their husbands.
The Republican-controlled New York Senate passed a bill that will require insurance of a wide range of women’s health needs. Advocates hope the far-reaching law, passed after two years of sometimes bitter debate, will become a national model