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Urban Girls Jump Into the Title IX Gap

By Carla Murphy ● Uncategorized ● March 8, 2009

Thirty-seven years after the passage of Title IX, urban girls of color lag behind the general surge in female sports. A double-dutch season starting this month in New York schools is one effort at catching up. First of two parts.

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Girl Talk: Why We Cut and Burn Ourselves

By Emma Pearse ● Health & Science ● April 15, 2004

As the problem of young women cutting and burning themselves gets mainstream attention, female teens are logging on to the Internet to talk about why they injure themselves. Women’s eNews corresponded with a few of them for this story.

Senators Approve Abortion Ban

By no-author ● Arts & Culture ● October 25, 2003

More Women, Girls Needed in Tech Fields

By Phoebe Nobles ● Uncategorized ● November 29, 2001

Experts at a conference on “Women and Girls in the High Tech Economy” called for a drive to train more women and girls, saying that though business now is sluggish, the economy will rebound and business will be inseparable from technology.

Global Education of Girls Is Key to Development

By Stephan Faris ● Arts & Culture ● September 24, 2001

It’s back to school everywhere, but uneducated girls continue to swell the ranks of the world’s 1 billion illiterate adults–two-thirds of them women. Of 100 million children worldwide between 6 and 11 who are not in school, 70 percent are girls.