Arts & Culture
Pandering to Female Voters of Yesteryear
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By Liza Donnelly, http://lizadonnelly.com/
Arts & Culture
Millions Goes to Girls; Taliban Shoots Teen
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International Day of the Girl
Credit: Ontario Women’s Directorate on Flickr under CC 2.0
(WOMENSENEWS)–
Politics
Zambian Women Accept Marital Violence
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The latest Zambia Demographic and Health Survey revealed that not only is marital violence common here, but many wives also believe they deserve it. The Zambian parliament is discussing a bill to provide shelters for women and children fleeing abuse.
Work
Let’s Give to Girls and Women; Let’s Build a Movement
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Philanthropy headlines in the past year have focused on billionaires giving in two different ways.
Crime & Law
Somali Keeps Her AIDS Secret Despite Wedding Plans
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A Somali woman in Kenya faces an arranged wedding knowing she could infect her husband with HIV-AIDS. She contracted the disease through unsafe anal sex to preserve her virginity.
Politics
Syrian Women Reflect on Rare Political Victory
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This story was published with the help of Sarah Shourd’s mother and colleagues while the author was imprisoned for over a year in Iran. Shourd was released in September 2010. Her two fellow hikers remain in prison
Health & Science
Clothing Stores Adjust for Recession-Weary Women
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Women’s clothing retailers are making bearish, long-term bets on the longevity of frugal shoppers in a cash-strapped, uncertain economy. “The overbuying mentality is gone,” says the president of retail consultancy.
Arts & Culture
Women of Faith Called to Invest in Women, Girls
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Women of faith recently joined secular feminists, social activists and philanthropists at a meeting in Dallas. Deborah Richardson says they came away resolved to put their collective spirit and financial power behind the sacred needs of women and girls.
Books
Two Moved Mountains of Money for Global Health
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When the Bush Administration decided to withhold $34 million from a U.N. agency focused on reproductive health, Jane Roberts and Lois Abraham took matters into their own hands. An excerpt from Sheryl WuDunn and Nicholas D. Kristof’s “Half the Sky.”