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India Urges Men to Woo Brides by Having Toilets

By Bhakti Bapat Mathew ● Arts & Culture ● June 26, 2013

With an eye to lowering India’s high maternal mortality, a national ad campaign and one state’s mass wedding program shifts the longstanding sanitation push to men. “Men control the household economy,” says one health activist.

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Migration Has Bright Spots for Girls, Female Teens

By Hajer Naili ● Employment ● May 14, 2013

Sex trafficking and exploitative employers are serious hazards. But a May 14 report also finds that families free daughters from early marriage when households depend on them for remittances.

Judge Strikes Plan B Limits; Abortion Laws Passed

By WeNews Staff ● Uncategorized ● April 6, 2013

Volunteers in Uganda Defuse Household Violence

By Beatrice Lamwaka ● Uncategorized ● January 17, 2013

The effects of a 2012 project continue to be felt in northern Uganda. Some volunteers are local leaders who have learned counseling is better than 12 strokes of the cane to resolve household disputes. Story provided by our partner, Global Press Institute.

Laws Hurting Bangladesh Women Linger on the Books

By Aruna Kashyap ● Uncategorized ● December 21, 2012

Successive governments in Bangladesh have allowed harsh, discriminatory personal laws to persist. After a year of interviews, Aruna Kashyap finds women trapped in abusive marriages or propelled into poverty after divorce or separation.

Romney Plays Gender-Race Card, Cites Welfare Law

By Mimi Abramovitz ● Uncategorized ● August 10, 2012

Romney attacks welfare policy around the same time that a prominent journalist links single motherhood to the nation’s glaring class divide. Mimi Abramovitz says this distracts from what really keeps single mothers and their children down and out.

Bride Spurns Veil, Redefines Nuptials

By Holly Hughes ● Arts & Culture ● April 7, 2012

In the anthology, “Here Come the Brides! Reflections on Lesbian Love And Marriage,” co-editors Audrey Bilger and Michele Kort offer an array of intimate insights. In this excerpt, performer Holly Hughes finds it’s easier to get married on Facebook.

1998: Gingrich Falls on His Own $10 Million Sword

By Nancy L. Cohen ● Arts & Culture ● January 28, 2012

Newt Gingrich may score his second win in Florida Tuesday, all the more reason to reflect on his role in the Clinton-Lewinsky uproar, as Nancy L. Cohen does in this excerpt from her book “Delirium: How the Sexual Counterrevolution is Polarizing America.”

Marriage for All, But Not This 20-Something

By Krystie Lee Yandoli ● Arts & Culture ● November 21, 2011

She’s an ardent proponent of marriage equality, but the ideal gets fuzzy in her own life. Krystie Lee Yandoli meditates on her part in the trend by 20-something women to delay or forego marriage.

Inter-Caste Marriage Tears Indian Family Apart

By Seema Chowdhury ● Arts & Culture ● October 14, 2011

Defying the practice of arranged marriage in India can tear families apart, particularly when young people go outside their castes. The Supreme Court has sided with the young couples, calling the caste system a “curse on the nation.”