Margaret Sanger Starts First Birth Control Clinic
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Women’s Businesses Get a 21st Century Boost
Women’s business centers are popping up all over the United States, helping women-owned businesses grow, 21st-century style.
Sept. 11’s Immigrant Widows Lose U.S. Visas
For many foreign nationals who lost spouses in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, their U.S. residency status remains murky. Most will be required to leave unless their spouses had applied for a permanent residency before the attack.
Fearing ‘Honor Killing,’ Woman Seeks Asylum
A battered Turkish woman is seeking asylum on grounds that if she were forced to return to Turkey she would face certain violence and quite possibly death in an “honor killing” because she filed for divorce and fled her abusive husband.
Lynne Seeks Public Role; Hadassah Shuns Spotlight
The job description requires the Second Spouse to always look admiringly at the Veep and the Prez whenever cameras are near, always look well-dressed but not fashionable, and to take up a good, non-controversial cause. Here are the two candidates.
A Coal Miner’s Daughter Is Fighting King Coal
Mountain Party candidate for governor, Denise Giardina, is taking on West Virginia’s coal industry and demanding an end to brutal mountaintop removal that she calls a sin. The incumbent, a former coal company executive, is considered a likely winner.
Feminist Mexican-American Artisan Leaves Legacy
Just four days before her death this summer, Dona Agueda Martinez, 102, was just beginning her latest weaving when she told the writer, Adelita Medina, how her literal and metaphoric “dance on the loom” kept her mind “strong and focused.”
