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Women the World Over Demand End to Violence, Poverty

By Elizabeth Randolph ● Politics ● October 18, 2000

In a groundbreaking global effort, women from Hong Kong to Jamaica rallied against poverty and violence in a march at the United Nations where delegates presented a petition outlining 17 demands.

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A Coal Miner’s Daughter Is Fighting King Coal

By Dan LeRoy ● Commentary ● October 16, 2000

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.

Moms on Welfare Face Obstacles to Higher Education

By Ellen Birkett Morris ● Arts & Culture ● September 25, 2000

Women’s advocates want to reform welfare-to-work, making post-secondary education a priority to help women get off welfare–for good. They say current laws and callous caseworkers discourage higher education while pressuring women into low-wage jobs.

How to Grade Your Child’s School On Gender Equity

By David Sadker ● Commentary ● September 13, 2000

A school’s commitment to gender equity can be easily discerned from bulletin boards and display cases, athletic fields, curriculum content, classroom seating and whether teachers encourage girls to develop a public voice–and boys a “public ear.”

Advocates Say California’s Bias Rules Too Narrow

By Victoria Graham ● Politics ● July 13, 2000

Women’s advocates say proposed regulations prohibiting sexual discrimination in public schools fail to adequately protect girls and boys from sexual harassment. The new rules also fail to protect pregnant and parenting teens, as well as gay students.

Public Funds for Experimental Single-Sex Ed?

By Cindy Richards ● Politics ● June 29, 2000

Women’s advocates staved off efforts to seriously undermine Title IX, which mandates equal access for both sexes in public education. But they signed on to a Senate compromise opening the door a crack for single-sex programs or schools.

A Great Dad Is Redefined: A Fighter for Title IX

By Sarah L. Rasmusson ● Arts & Culture ● June 22, 2000

A new organization of fathers has awarded a Michigan school official for his consistent efforts to level the playing field for girls’ sports. The event is part of Dads and Daughters, a campaign to make the world a more equitable place for female children.

Women’s Studies: Alive, Well and Still Kicking

By Sheila Tobias ● Politics ● June 21, 2000

Women’s studies scholars met and rubbed shoulders with the stars of the 1970s movement and pondered both emerging international issues and–in the true sign of the maturity of the discipline–retirement concerns.