On Thanksgiving, cooking the feast remains women’s work for those who get paid top dollar and for those who do it without pay. Could it be because the holiday is really about maintaining relationships? Also, thousands in Mexico protest unsolved murders.
In Spain, an accountant accused her boss, the mayor, of sexual harassment and refused to back off, and was willing to endure a trial. The resulting uproar handed women’s rights activists a major victory. Also, calls to remove spermicide from condoms.
Women’s rights activists are urging Mexico’s President Fox to support reform of labor laws to bar sex bias in the workplace. Also, in Pennsylvania, a judge lifted a court order and permitted a woman to have an abortion opposed by her companion.
A Mexican mass-media campaign is tapping into the power of advertising to challenge the country’s pervasive gender bias and declare that it is time for a change.
Many women’s groups criticized the document produced by leaders at the U.N. International Conference on Financing for Development, saying that too little money is promised within it and it relies on private investment rather than state action.
In 1999, a 13-year-old Mexican rape victim was intimidated out of getting an abortion. Now advocates want to take her case to international court, arguing that impeding a woman’s access to a legal abortion violates her human rights.
In a landmark decision, Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice upheld a Mexico City law that ends criminal prosecution of women who have abortions in certain situations such as when the pregnancy is the result of rape or in cases of fetal defects.
Women in Mexico are seeking to take charge as political changes sweep the nation, running for top offices, talking about forming their own parties and openly campaigning for women’s rights.
During the past eight years, the bodies of an estimated 250 young Mexican women, all poor, most under age 19, were dumped near the Texas border. Advocates say the unsolved murder cases illustrate an acceptance of violence against women.
Women comprise more than half of late-onset diabetes sufferers and more than half of them are African American–at special risk, doctors say, because many are overweight. The enemy is stress and diets that may be comforting but are also high in fat.
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