New Meds Slow Breast Cancer; U.S. Curbs Plan B
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Breast cancer experts cheered two new medicines that significantly delay the time until women with very advanced cases get worse, reported Bloomberg Businessweek Dec. 7.
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Sportswomen Find Place in Halls of Their Own
Tributes and honors for female athletes are cropping up around the nation. While many are limited to exhibits inside larger museums, a new planned center named for Billie Jean King provides the first-ever hall of fame just for female athletes.
New Congress Raises Hopes for Women’s D.C. Museum
Women in Congress are reviving a bill to move the Web-based National Women’s History Museum into a building on Pennsylvania Avenue. The support of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi raises their hopes.
Museum Displays Contraceptives from Past Eras
A new mini-museum in Cleveland puts the history of contraception–from crocodile dung to the pill–on display. Launched quietly in March, it emerges as the new federal budget threatens the access of millions of women to contraceptive services.
Museum Devotes Exhibit Just to Girls
A museum pulls girlhood artifacts out of closets and, through vintage Girl Scout uniforms and a 1945 Girl’s Bill of Rights, puts the often-obscured subject of girls’ history on display.
Feisty Early Women Artists Given Boston Show
A new Boston exhibit, “A Studio of Her Own,” shows how early women artists struggled to learn anatomy in hospitals, refused to wear veils while sketching nude male models and scoffed at critics who said women could not accurately sculpt men’s legs.
Military Women Honored at Arlington
Nurses and soldiers alike played an important, although often ignored, role in America’s military history from the Revolutionary War forward. Today, military leaders will pay homage to the brave and seek out the unknown.
Museum Makes Women’s Suffrage Battle Come Alive
The on-line exhibit at the Women of the West Museum explores women’s battle for political rights, lest we and our children forget the ferocious struggle it took to claim the territory of political autonomy.
