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Women in Leadership Worldwide
Via Feminist Law Professors, here's a website that tracks women in leadership positions throughout the world. According to the website, there are "192 members of the United Nations, 2 independent states outside, a few self-declared de-facto independent states and many...
DIY Abortions in the Dominican Community
Last Sunday, the New York Times published an article about the incidence of women in the Dominican community in New York using alternative herbs or drugs to end pregnancies. According to the article: Two new studies by reproductive-health providers suggest that...
Good News for Equal Pay
Here's some good news for equality in the New Year: Paycheck Fairness Act and the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act were the first bills to pass the House in the new session (article from the Feminist Daily News Wire is available here). Ms. Ledbetter became a de facto...
Rising Efforts to Combat Teen Domestic Violence
The New York Times published an interesting in-depth look at rising efforts to combat teen violence around the country. According to a 2007 report from the Centers for Disease Control that surveyed 15,000 adolescents, 10 percent reported physical abuse by a romantic...
Jobs protected for Philadelphians who are survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence
Some good news for the new year: Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter signed the policy that the Philadelphia City Council passed in October requiring employers to provide up to eight weeks of unpaid leave for survivors of domestic and/or sexual violence, and it went...
New year, same cash assistance benefits
Happy New Year! We hope you enjoyed your holidays. While January 1 marked the beginning of a year in which we'll see a new president sworn in and more women in high-ranking positions in the U.S. government, it also marks the 19th year in which cash assistance benefits...
Obama's Choice of anti-LGBT Pastor Draws Fire
Members of the LGBT community across the nation have been expressing outrage at President-Elect Obama’s choice of Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at his inauguration. Mr. Warren heads a megachurch in California and has been a strong opponent of equality for gays...
Bush Enacts Anti-Abortion Regulation
The Bush administration has enacted the Provider Conscience Regulation we blogged about in the past. This policy allows a wide group of medical personnel to refuse providing any medical service to which they object on moral grounds. But even before the Bush...
FDA Advisory Panel Approves New Female Condom
The Food and Drug Administration's advisory panel voted 15-0 last week to approve sales of a new female condom in the United States. The new condom is quieter, made of softer material, and will most likely be less expensive than the current female condom on the...
Vatican Perpetuates Misinformation about Abortion
Last week the Vatican issued a sweeping treatise on bioethics (in PDF). In the document, in addition to condemning abortion, it took aim at the morning-after pill, IUDs and RU-486, saying that these too can result in abortions. RU-486 can, indeed, be used to induce...
