Arts & Culture
Women May Be Buying More Guns
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Firearm retailers say gun sales rose, especially among women, after Sept. 11, but gun-control groups and some women’s rights activists say those statistics are exaggerated.
Labor
Plan to Close Working Women’s Offices Draws Fire
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The 10 regional offices of the Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau could be closed, eliminating important outreach on women’s rights, discrimination, pay equity, non-traditional employment and child care.
Leadership
Women Denied Talk Show Rite of Political Passage
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Agenda-setting Sunday talk shows invite remarkably fewer women guests, thus denying political women access to these high-media-power seats. Before Sept. 11, women constituted only 10.7 percent of the guests. Now even those numbers have dropped.
Leadership
Women Worry Aloud About War, Consequences
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Some women lawmakers say military force will not end but increase terrorism, while others support a decisive well-planned military strategy. Still others say Americans should turn inward, re-examine U.S. foreign policy and ask, “Why are we so hated?”
Business
Women’s Numbers in Professional Schools Still Low
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While women are the majority of first-year law school students, they remain underrepresented in many professional fields. Advocates say stereotypes about nurturing cause women to be channeled to predictable fields, like pediatrics or human resources.
Commentary
Jobs May Not Be Enough for Families’ Basic Needs
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A new study indicates that many families living on earnings less than the median for their region have experienced critical hardships, such as going without food. Those headed by women are even more at risk.
Health & Science
Peruvian to Senate: Gag Rule Means More Abortions
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Bush administration relents, permitting a Peruvian activist muzzled by the global gag rule to speak about abortion–but only before Congress. She still may not speak in her own country. She said the gag rule will not reduce abortion, but increase it.
Parenting
Welfare Law Heightens Need for Child Care
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While drawing up the 1996 welfare law, Congress apparently believed many mothers on welfare would marry and end their reliance on aid. What is becoming clear is that most remain single, and now the need for child care is greater than ever.
Arts & Culture
Wade Horn Says in Senate Hearing He Was Wrong
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Wade Horn told a Senate committee that he has reversed his stand that married couples should be given top priority in welfare benefits and other programs–but how his strong ideology will affect other programs remains unclear.
Arts & Culture
Fatherhood Movement Has Range of Ideology, Agenda
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Bush has named two members of this movement to important posts. Some preach imposing a Father Knows Best lifestyle on low-income mothers; others are bitter opponents of mothers winning custody battles. Some promote good parenting.