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Women of Color Now a Majority in New York City

By: Marieme Daff | March 7, 2003

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.

Arts & Culture

Panel on Title IX May Debate How to Measure Equity

By: Marieme Daff | August 25, 2002

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.

Arts & Culture

Two Women Playwrights Are Stars at N.Y. Festival

By: Marieme Daff | August 22, 2002

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.

Politics

Women Taking Their Place in African Immigration

By: Marieme Daff | August 4, 2002

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 Nation

N.Y. Passes Break-Through Women’s Health Bill

By: Marieme Daff | July 9, 2002

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

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