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Elder-care jobs are booming as the U.S. population ages. A rule to extend federal wage protections to this predominantly female work force is in public comment stage; advocates push five reforms; one for each finger of a caring hand.
The rise of the bike in the late 1800s changed women’s approach to both private and public life, Sue Macy says in this adaptation of an excerpt from her new book “Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom.”
(WOMENSENEWS)–As the recession takes a deeper toll on jobs, income and wages, more Americans are filling out forms for jobs, unemployment insurance, Medicaid and food stamps.
The Feb. 20 protest at a leading U.S. mosque ended peacefully and unresolved. Demonstrators seeking to remove a partition blocking women’s view of the prayer leader say they will persist with their decade-long push.
After withstanding years of silence, Cypriot families–both Greek and Turkish–are beginning to learn about the relatives they lost to political violence and to reclaim their remains. Sevgul Uludag has spurred that process of national healing.
The proposal for the federal budget for 2006 released this week contains billions of dollars of cuts in Medicaid funding and a restructuring of the health care program that would put millions of American women at risk.