By Vanessa • 19 years ago

Check it.

Reuters released a scary report about some research in Scotland showing that although women are at less risk to get a heart attack than men, they are more likely to die afterward. Their research also suggests that it may be because women receive inferior health care.
The findings were published in the medical journal Heart, where a study was conducted in Scotland of over 1500 men and women between 1994 and 2000 who were admitted with a first heart attack to the hospital.
During a follow-up time period of three years, 41 percent of men and 51 percent of women died. Even though the initial inquiry showed a heightened death risk for women, this dissipated after ruling in ...

Reuters released a scary report about some research in Scotland showing that although women are at less risk to get a heart attack than men, they are more likely to die afterward. Their research also ...
By noauthor • 19 years ago

Post-Saddam Things Aren’t Looking Any Better for Iraqi Women

Amnesty International’s latest report, Iraq: Decades of Suffering–Now Women Deserve Better, found that the status of women has *not* improved in Iraq over the last two years. For all the women’s lib rhetoric that Bush likes to throw around, it’s just not true. While the war succeeded in getting rid of Saddam, it replaced him with violence & religious conservatism. Not exactly a net gain for women.
According to Amnesty, “The lawlessness and increased killings, abductions and rapes that followed the overthrow of the government of Saddam Hussein have restricted women’s freedom of movement and their ability to go to school or to work.”
And of course Iraqi women ...

Amnesty International’s latest report, Iraq: Decades of Suffering–Now Women Deserve Better, found that the status of women has *not* improved in Iraq over the last two years. For all the women’s lib ...
By noauthor • 19 years ago

Dems & Abortion: The New Republican Light?

Check out the Philadelphia Inquirer’s piece, Democrats Sound A New Note On Abortion. The article focuses on the Democratic Party’s shift towards the center on the issue of choice, and the growing *inside* movement to dismantle reproductive rights from the party’s core platform.
William Galston, a former policy adviser to the Clinton administration explains that: “Those who won’t ever compromise on ‘choice’ should spend a bit more time with folks who aren’t 100-percenters. Because if the 100-percenters keep insisting on total obedience, they will end up dominating a party that will never again win another national election.” I don’t believe it. I think that Emily’s List is much more on point in noting ...

Check out the Philadelphia Inquirer’s piece, Democrats Sound A New Note On Abortion. The article focuses on the Democratic Party’s shift towards the center on the issue of choice, and the growing *inside* movement ...
By noauthor • 19 years ago

The Religious Right Strikes Again…

But this time they are lashing out at their own. According to the Washington Post, evangelicals are up in arms at the latest translation of Today’s New International Bible (TNIV).
Evangelicals claim that the translation committee was misled by feminist theology and distorted biblical teachings through their use of gender neutral language. Randy Stinson of Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood, alleges that the use of gender neutral language, “undermines significant things about fathers, about manhood, about brothers, about relationships between men and women, and the way that the Bible fundamentally teaches from cover to cover about the role of men leading in the home, about the role of men leading in the church.” ...

But this time they are lashing out at their own. According to the Washington Post, evangelicals are up in arms at the latest translation of Today’s New International Bible (TNIV).
Evangelicals claim that the ...
By Vanessa • 19 years ago

Life’s A Bitch When You’re An (Ex-)Executive And Female

There was an interesting article in The Washington Post yesterday (free subscription) questioning what happens when a female chief executive leaves her position. More specifically, will her departure call more attention than when a male chief executive falls? The author examines the presence of corporations led by women and the stigma that comes with their (sadly) rare existence.
After all, there’s only about one percent of female chief executives in the Fortune 500. The author uses Carly Fiorina as an example — the chief executive who just resigned from her successful tenure of six years at Hewlett Packard Co. But the author questions, “Will her departure also just be another ‘aha, see?’ moment in Corporate America?”
Betty Spence, ...

There was an interesting article in The Washington Post yesterday (free subscription) questioning what happens when a female chief executive leaves her position. More specifically, will her departure call more attention than when a male ...
By Jessica • 19 years ago

Check out…

Maureen Dowd’s piece, Where’s the Road Beef?, on some of the lovely things men say about women and how beauty standards haven’t changed much. At all.
Here’s a snippet:
At the dawn of feminism, there was an assumption that women would not be as severely judged on their looks in ensuing years. Phooey. It’s just the opposite. Looks matter more than ever, with more and more women spending fortunes turning themselves into generic, plastic versions of what they think men want, reaching for eerily similar plumped-up faces and body shapes.

Maureen Dowd’s piece, Where’s the Road Beef?, on some of the lovely things men say about women and how beauty standards haven’t changed much. At all.
Here’s a snippet:
At the dawn of feminism, ...
By noauthor • 19 years ago

Sexual Assault in the Military. Again.

Check out yesterday’s article in The Washington Post on sexual assault in the military. The article highlights the Miles Foundation, an *awesome* non-profit that provides support to victims of violence within the military. According to the Miles Foundation, only about one third of the 307 sexual assaults that were reported to them have received official documentation. Well, thanks to the Miles Foundation at least these soldiers feel like they have someone to tell without fear of retribution.
In January, the Pentagon pledged to start taking sexual assault in the military more seriously. Let’s just say I’m not holding my breath…

Check out yesterday’s article in The Washington Post on sexual assault in the military. The article highlights the Miles Foundation, an *awesome* non-profit that provides support to victims of violence within the ...

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