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Four years ago two journalism students in Austin, Texas, decided that young U.S. Latinas need a magazine to call their own. Today they produce a Webzine and run workshops that train girls and teens to report, edit and keep asking questions.
South Dakota’s far-reaching abortion ban has spurred many women into the political running. Beyond the politics of reproduction, they are also seizing the chance to talk about living conditions in a state where many women hold down two jobs.
As the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina nears, crowded post-storm housing conditions worry police and advocates about rising risks of domestic violence and sex assault. A Louisiana project is preparing a report on preventing disaster-related violence.
A new domestic violence program in Texas signals a shift in the treatment of batterers. Increasingly, ex-offenders are leading recent offenders to confront how their own decisions to use violence are linked to an underlying belief in male dominance.
Leaving a domestic violence shelter is tough at the best of times, but it’s especially precarious during a hurricane. Using lessons learned from Hurricane Katrina, 60 Texas shelters helped house women and children from 15 closed coastal centers.
An ambitious 10-year study of women’s diet and supplements winds up this month. But lack of funding puts next-generation studies in doubt. Money problems, meanwhile, are also preventing development of the FDA’s gender database.
Female physicians face a surprising killer; themselves. Although no research has been conducted on reasons for their especially high suicide rate, people close to the problem suspect heavy work-life burdens and gender bias in the profession.
Many questions remain unanswered about racial and ethnic disparities in breast cancer, but now researchers have an important biological clue that may lead to better breast cancer treatments, especially for African American women.
Native American women are snapping up a health-advice book written, in the tradition of “Our Bodies, Ourselves,” by and for them. Editors say interest in the book is fueled by historic abuses of indigenous women’s reproductive rights.
Female teens seeking birth control are less likely to undergo pelvic exams. Doctors say that young women’s dread of the invasive procedure prevents them from seeking not only contraceptive counseling, but gynecological care in general.