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Penn State has raised the national volume on school silence about sex harassment. But the AAUW’s Linda Hallman says many administrators still seem clueless about their legal responsibility to protect under Title IX.
At 23, Susana Mendes became the first female editor in chief of Angola’s leading investigative weekly. The paper routinely covers domestic violence and she’s making a personal effort to pass a bill to treat it, for the first time, as a crime.
Young women still don’t understand the importance of cervical cancer screening, a recent report indicates. Various health advocates are taking steps to combat this lack of awareness during Cervical Health Awareness Month.
World Breastfeeding Awareness Week is in August and Aisha Qaasim flags the need for stronger cultural support in the United States, particularly for African American moms. Negative attitudes, she says, are making our children sick.
As Kenya heads toward December elections women’s advocates are touring the country and trying to curb the dangers of electoral violence and intimidation facing female candidates. Second in a series on the rule of law and women in Africa.
Researchers are conducting clinical trials of a non-invasive, pin-prick procedure that is the first to catch ovarian cancer in its initial stages.
A treaty ended Angola’s civil war last month, yet women are still struggling to feed themselves and their families. In the nation’s capital, 70 percent of residents are unemployed and many women enter the informal market, selling even themselves.