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Olympic Committee Leaves Female Ski Jumpers Out in the Cold
Jessica Jerome is the U.S. champion in ski jumping, but unlike her fellow American athletes Ryan Malone (hockey), Sasha Cohen (figure skating) and Apolo Anton Ohno (speedskating), she is not training for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver. The International Olympic...
Three Leading Women Activists Perished in the Haitian Earthquake
Among the deceased in Haiti are three feminists who dedicated their lives to working for such rights for women. Myriam Merlet, Magalie Marcelin, and Anne Marie Coriolan founded three of the country’s most significant women’s advocacy organizations. Merlet, former...
Blog for Choice 2010: Trust Women
Thirty-seven years ago today, the landmark Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade guaranteed American women the right to choose abortion. The decision held that a woman had the right, with her doctor, to choose to terminate a pregnancy in the first months without...
Controversy over New York State Bar Association’s Women in the Law Conference
The New York State Bar Association will be hosting a symposium [PDF] on January 26 to address specific problems women face in the legal profession. At this conference, two panels will discuss the issues facing female lawyers in a “changing legal market where...
Is Refusing Bed Rest a Crime?
That’s the question posed by Lisa Belkin at the New York Times, as she covers the case of Samantha Burton, who, after refusing her doctor’s advice to go on bed rest during her pregnancy, was not allowed to be released from a Florida hospital. The answer is obviously...
