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Female banana packers in Central America work long hours for the lowest pay in the industry. But inside the unionized sector of the work force, women since 1985 have slowly been gaining ground and are now sharing a gender-justice curriculum.
Latino groups fighting domestic violence have grown from memorializing a murdered bride to actively recruiting men to their cause. Third in “Dangerous Trends, Innovative Responses” series.
Venezuela’s Chavez has publicly embraced Iran’s reactionary President Ahmadinejad. Jennifer Fasulo says this shows how women’s lives are maneuvered on the playing board of nationalist realpolitik.
Around the world, 51 million girls and teens are married so young that they face special health risks and higher rates of poverty. A Senate bill asks for more funding to fight child marriage and advocates say the practice hinders development goals.
Britain may soon begin to prosecute parents who force their children into marriage by making it a specific criminal offense. The practice largely affects South Asian immigrants, where it’s a divisive cultural issue.
Advocates working against domestic violence say some of the hardest women to reach are migrant Latina women. One organization in Florida, which offers one-stop services and Spanish-speaking counselors, provides a model for outreach success.
UPDATE Sept. 11: The parole of Flozelle Woodmore–a battered woman incarcerated during the 1980s–was denied today by the governor of California.This story was filed when his decision was still pending.
A new report says Hispanic women encounter stereotypes and a lack of mentoring in the workplace. In addition, they often have difficulty balancing family obligations.
A new study finds that Hispanic girls, a group usually thought to be in a low-risk category for suicide because of the strong family ties, are now increasingly likely to attempt to take their own lives.
Aug. 9 Update: Woman Denied Abortion Miscarries(WOMENSENEWS)–A 23-year-old Pennsylvania woman who was briefly denied an abortion after her ex-boyfriend sued to force her to carry the pregnancy to term has suffered a miscarriage.Tanya Meyers, who was 10 weeks pregnant, was hospitalized Monday because she was bleeding, her mother, Tracey Curry, told The Associated Press. An ultrasound revealed the miscarriage, shesaid.”Tanya said she would make the right decision when the time came,” Curry said. “But God made the decision.”That same day, a judge gave Meyers the go-ahead to get the abortion. The father, John Stachokus, had successfully convinced another judge the week before to issue a temporary injunction preventing her from having the procedure.”No person–not an abusive ex-boyfriend and not a state court trial judge–has the right to veto an adult woman’s decision to terminate her first-trimester pregnancy,” said Linda Rosenthal, an attorney at the Center for Reproductive Law and Policy who represented Meyers.The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in multiple cases that a woman can terminate her pregnancy until about 24 weeks.