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Runners Without Borders provides a dose of normalcy that’s not always easy for its members to handle. “Some of our friends think that this is disloyal to the Palestinian cause,” says the mother of one girl. “It isn’t always comfortable for us.”
Be thankful it’s November. “Pale Male” flies into theaters Nov. 24 and before then the calendar offers a banquet of films by-for-about women. The spread began Nov. 4 with “Another Happy Day” and includes the stunning French film “Tomboy.”
Shops, restaurants, hotels and airlines are saying no to kids. During a long, harsh winter Allison Stevens says the hostility has made motherhood isolating and turned the nearest family-friendly IKEA into a beacon.
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
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.
At the only degreed midwifery program in Mexico, women train and then return to their rural roots. It is right in line with a recent United Nations push to fill a global shortfall of 334,000 midwives and improve maternal health outcomes.
Watch out, tradition: online matchmaking has put power in the hands of Muslim women looking for the right man. But some are still too embarrassed to admit this route to matrimony.
Women in Black have been publicly mourning Israel’s military occupation of the West Bank for 20 years. As members mark the anniversary amid the latest peace talks, they say their message is still timely even if their street protests have dwindled.
Women’s eNews has launched an eight-part series on women and how they are making inroads into higher education institutions in Africa. The research and production of the series is supported by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Lack of child care partly explains why the majority of women with substance-abuse problems aren’t getting treatment, officials say. In New Jersey, researchers found that nearly half of the women who abuse drugs and alcohol are mothers.