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Report: Big Drop in Intimate-Partner Violence

By Hajer Naili ● Uncategorized ● November 27, 2012

Findings compare 1993 and 2010 and offer no explanation of the sharp decrease in crimes that include rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault and simple assault.

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Protests Surround Abortion Clinic in N. Ireland

By Claire Mc Cormack ● Uncategorized ● October 23, 2012

The Marie Stopes clinic is operating well with the law of Northern Ireland, but protesters see it as a foothold for expanding abortion rights.

Women Probably Dominate Romney’s ’47 Percent’

By Samantha Kimmey ● Uncategorized ● September 19, 2012

Women are more likely to live in poverty, earn less and outlive men. All that means they are probably the majority of the 47 percent of Americans disparaged by GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney in a videotape published earlier this week.

Sports Researchers Detail Uneven Playing Field

By Anna Halkidis ● Uncategorized ● September 4, 2012

Decades after the enactment of Title IX, two longtime gender-gap number crunchers can relax and celebrate the huge gain in women’s sports participation. But as they think about winding down, there’s still a big problem with coaching.

Olympic Boxing Firsts, U.S. Women Outmedal Men

By Samantha Kimmey ● Arts & Culture ● August 10, 2012

Women win their first gold medals in boxing at the Olympics, the second Saudi Arabian woman debuts and eyes are on Caster Semenya as she prepares to compete in the 800-meter final.

Haitian Women’s Employment Stuck in Aftershock

By Lynda Michel ● Employment ● June 11, 2012

Women in Haiti report they have yet to recover economically in the two years after the earthquake. Memories of the disaster are still fresh, and the losses have left their incomes significantly smaller.

She Works Hard for the Money: Spotlight on Women’s Working Lives

By Rita Henley Jensen ● Employment ● May 26, 2012

As I write this, I am humming the late Donna Summer’s hit “She Works Hard for the Money” and remembering the scenes from the video, featuring a middle-age single mother, an everywoman, scrubbing floors, waiting tables, running a machine in a garment factory, feeding her preteen kids and falling into bed exhausted.