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No better time than Labor Day to take a new critical look at the nation’s first Paid Family Leave Act. I hailed our state’s law in this space over a year ago. Today I want to backtrack and emphasize the crying need for awareness and implementation.
Reebok drops hip-hop artist Rick Ross due to his misogynist lyrics. Also, two female teens, one in the United States and the other in Canada, committed suicide after making allegations of sexual assault.
The U.S. appeals court in Boston ruled that the federal Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional, while the anti-choice group Live Action released a video against Planned Parenthood.
In this excerpt from “Manning Up,” Kay S. Hymowitz gives background on modern belief that work can be enriching in, “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Businesswomen.” In the first part of the chapter, she makes the case that in the past, work failed to utilize both men and women’s capabilities.
The FDA’s recent expansion of gastric-banding weight-loss surgery to millions more Americans could burden the nation’s E.R. with complications that patients discuss in online forums, such as vomiting and abdominal pain. The third of three stories.
Bangladesh is singled out from neighboring India and Cambodia for taking stronger measures to stop acid attacks on women in a report released Thursday. The attacks to disfigure and isolate victims are called acts of gender terrorism.
A low-cost ultrasound system is on its way to Uganda in early summer. Produced by students at the University of Washington, it’s intended to help midwives battle the high death rate in the country’s rural areas.
(WOMENSENEWS)–Some years ago, while reading through the letters of 19th century suffrage leaders, I uncovered a sad but shocking fact: It was largely men who funded the suffrage movement.
Lindsay Shea didn’t know her own wealth for decades. After mastering her own finances she began funding projects for women, some of which offer financial literacy training to others.
