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Today’s menu for many single mothers will be a poignant mixture of delight with their families with concern about their financial futures. With that in mind, two reporters backtracked to find two single mothers who had been featured in the past.
Women in and around the Republican National Convention are expressing wildly divergent views about Sarah Palin, a religious conservative selected as McCain’s running mate. Even GOP pro-choice advocates are divided.
Pennsylvania women are expected to keep Clinton in the running as they vote in a primary that shares the date with Equal Pay Day. But a Pittsburgh analyst says suburban Philadelphian women are unpredictable and might just give their vote to Obama.
The Supreme Court’s decision Wednesday upholding a law banning some abortions after 12 weeks, without a health exception, dismayed reproductive health advocates.
A case that tests an abortion ban in Nicaragua is being reviewed by the nation’s Supreme Court this spring. Activists say the law imperils the lives of women and it looms large as a symbol of the economic and health inequalities they routinely face.
Charges in the high-profile rape case at Duke University are being brought by a college student who is also an exotic dancer. Advocates say that women in sex-related work are more vulnerable to rape and the crime is a common campus danger.
Cuban women struggle with hardships that range from limited wages that drive many to prostitution to handling most of the housework. Women’s rights activists there say the U.S. trade embargo and other sanctions only make their burden worse.
(WOMENSENEWS)–CheersIn a landslide victory, Doris Matsui won a special election Tuesday in California’s 5th District, joining 68 other women in the 435 member House.She will fill the House seat previously held for 26 years by her husband and fellow Democrat, Rep. Robert T. Matsui. Robert Matsui died Jan. 1 of complications from a rare bone barrow disease.In her campaign, Matsui, a 60-year-old lobbyist and former Clinton administration official, emphasized her opposition to Bush administration initiatives on Social Security and taxes and her support for local concerns such as improved flood protection and transportation infrastructure.Matsui was sworn in on Thursday. She filled the only vacancy in the House, making the new partisan breakdown 232 Republicans, 202 Democrats and one independent.– Sen. Joe Biden, a Democrat from Delaware, and Sen. Richard Lugar, a Republican from Indiana, introduced a bill on Tuesday to protect women and children in areas hit by war and disaster. The bill urges the Secretary of State to cut off military assistance to countries who do not investigate allegations of sexual abuse and exploitation by their troops who are serving as U.N. peacekeepers, according to a press statement from Biden’s office.