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Murphy has no patience for hand wringing over the release of the Ohio rape-case video. These technological advances, she says, give a huge boost to rape prosecutors who currently put a mere 2 percent of alleged rapists in jail for even one day.
Diabetes and obesity are big problems for Hispanic women in New York, particularly those in low-income areas such as the South Bronx. Nutritionists say lessons in healthier eating and cooking begin with a cultural understanding of food.
When women suffering anorexia stop having their menstrual periods many think they no longer have to worry about birth control. But the recent discovery of a higher rate of unplanned pregnancies among women with the disorder turns that thinking on its head.
The Center for Reproductive Rights studied what would happen if Roe v. Wade fell and protection for abortion was left up to the states. In a report issued Thursday, the group finds a majority of states would ban the procedure.
Margot Wallström starts March 1 her two-year stint as special U.N. representative on ending conflict-zone sexual violence. She says she’ll be going right away to the Democratic Republic of Congo, a global epicenter of mass rape.
Summer 1967: Female activists help push rising opposition to the Vietnam War and campaigned door-to-door.
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Women increased their presence on the radio dial this week. GreenStone Media, an all-woman commercial talk radio network, was launched in New York by Gloria Steinem, Jane Fonda, Carol Jenkins and others. The media network has started to offer programming at radio stations in four states and says it will target a market dominated by male hosts and audiences.
Steinem told Reuters the woman-run network is "more about information, about humor, about respect for different points of view and not constant arguing."