Confronted by often desperate circumstances back home, West African women are bucking their traditional roles and seeking better lives in the United States–often without their husbands.
South Africa’s teachers, most of whom are women, are among the casualties of the country’s AIDS crisis. After years of denying the problem, the government now says it’s time to intervene.
In South Africa, where more people are affected by AIDS than anywhere else in the world, rape and other violence is putting women at increased risk of contracting the disease.
Sports fans: Be ready to tune in to the 90-minute cablecast of the Women’s U.S. Open Bowling Championship. Once threatened with no airtime and half the pay of their male equivalents, the women bowlers united and scored money and airtime.
It’s back to school everywhere, but uneducated girls continue to swell the ranks of the world’s 1 billion illiterate adults–two-thirds of them women. Of 100 million children worldwide between 6 and 11 who are not in school, 70 percent are girls.
The phrase “sanctioned off” is now commonplace among those touched by the 1996 welfare law. It refers to a family losing its only source of revenue for infractions of welfare regulations, sometimes for as little as being 10 minutes late.
Living wage campaigns are spreading with success in 60 cities and 70 others are in range. The premise: The federal minimum wage is equivalent to less than $10,000 annually and is not sufficient for families to pay for rent, food and medical care.
Women’s advocates want to reform welfare-to-work, making post-secondary education a priority to help women get off welfare–for good. They say current laws and callous caseworkers discourage higher education while pressuring women into low-wage jobs.
The Boy Scouts vow to continue to exclude homosexuals, a position upheld by the Supreme Court, however the Girl Scouts and others organizations have anti-discrimination policies while barring sexual interactions between leaders and children.
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