By Samhita • 17 years ago

Why waste time on the women’s vote?

Now whenever I come across creepy freeperdom I am forced to pause and read, frown and cry.
via Echidne.

Now this is interesting: A Biblical justification for limiting suffrage to men (or even to men with property). It started with one of those games where people are asked to answer questions, and the blogger answered a question about what she’d like to change in the world like this:
If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt and politics, what would you do? Hoo-boy, this is where I get in trouble, and that starts with “T” and that rhymes with “P” and that stands for “pool.” I’d like to jump in a pool right now. Some may ...

Now whenever I come across creepy freeperdom I am forced to pause and read, frown and cry.
via Echidne.

Now this is interesting: A Biblical justification for limiting suffrage to men (or even to men with property). ...
By Samhita • 17 years ago

Teenagers having less babies.

I am all about that. According to an annual study called the Kids Count, that measures the health and well-being of children and teens, less teenagers are having babies or dropping out of high school. Yet more teenagers are living in poverty. Hmmm.

The report measures each state’s progress on 10 statistics, including infant mortality, poverty rates, single-parent families and babies born with low birth weights.
States in the Northeast and upper Midwest scored the best. At the top: New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Minnesota and Iowa. Southern states did the worst: Mississippi, Louisiana, New Mexico, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Nationally, there were improvements in eight of the 10 measurements in the 1990s, when the economy was booming, government-sponsored health care ...

I am all about that. According to an annual study called the Kids Count, that measures the health and well-being of children and teens, less teenagers are having babies or dropping out of high school. Yet ...
By Ann • 17 years ago

CDC committee recommends HPV vaccine for girls age 11-12… but the battle’s not over

Contributed by Madeline Halperin-Robinson
This afternoon the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) unanimously voted to recommend routine vaccination against HPV for girls age 11-12. The committee’s recommendations are non-binding – it is now up to each state to decide whether or not to put these recommendations into practice and make the vaccine mandatory for all 11-12 year olds before they enter school.
But more hurdles to access must be cleared before we can declare victory over the STI that can cause cervical cancer. Typically, the committee’s recommendations are adopted by each state and used as a guide for government and private insurers to decide whether or not to cover the vaccine. But ...

Contributed by Madeline Halperin-Robinson
This afternoon the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) unanimously voted to recommend routine vaccination against HPV for girls age 11-12. The committee’s recommendations are non-binding – it is now ...
By Samhita • 17 years ago

Kuwaiti election includes women.

After gaining the right to vote and run in parlimentary elections back in May 2005, women will be participating in the Kuwaiti elections this Thursday for the first time.
How exciting!

Kuwait holds parliamentary elections on Thursday in which women can run for office and cast votes for the first time in a national poll in the oil-producing Gulf Arab country.
More than 250 candidates are standing, including 28 women determined to make headway despite daunting odds against any female candidate beating seasoned male opponents, many of them former parliamentarians seeking re-election.
“The participation of women in the elections makes this a historic day for Kuwait,” said U.S.-educated female candidate Fatima al-Abdali. “The success of any woman will be a victory ...

After gaining the right to vote and run in parlimentary elections back in May 2005, women will be participating in the Kuwaiti elections this Thursday for the first time.
How exciting!

Kuwait holds parliamentary elections on Thursday in ...
By Jessica • 17 years ago

CDC panel votes on HPV vaccine today

The national Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is set to vote today on whether a promising cervical cancer vaccine should be part of the standard shots that adolescent girls receive.
As you already know, conservative groups have been less than enthusiastic about the vaccine, claiming that it could make girls promiscuous (I know). Let’s hope the panel makes a judgment based on science and health, not politics.

The national Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is set to vote today on whether a promising cervical cancer vaccine should be part of the standard shots that adolescent girls receive.
As you already know, ...
By celina • 17 years ago

No Net Neutrality

Still amazed and saddened by how little media coverage this, you-would-think, very important topic has gotten by mainstream media. OH, wait, who owns mainstream media? Oh, yeah, that’s right.
Check this out:

The Senate Commerce Committee Wednesday rejected a network-neutrality amendment, handing cable and phone broadband-access providers yet another victory over a coalition that has demanded the application of strict nondiscrimination standards against entities that control access to millions of Internet users.
The panel voted 11 to 11 to defeat an amendment sponsored by Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.), who had backing from Google, Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon, Microsoft and other firms that deliver voice, video, and information services and applications.
Under Senate rules, a tie vote ...

Still amazed and saddened by how little media coverage this, you-would-think, very important topic has gotten by mainstream media. OH, wait, who owns mainstream media? Oh, yeah, that’s right.
Check this out:

The Senate Commerce Committee ...
By Samhita • 17 years ago

“Peacebuilding cannot be successful if half the population is excluded…”

Beyond Victimhood: Women’s Peacebuilding in Sudan, Congo and Uganda, a new report out on the remarkable peace building work that women are doing, discusses how women are being left out of the peace-building process and what needs to be done to incorporate more of the work and resistances of these women.

In all three [countries], an array of women’s organisations and leaders are doing remarkable work, under difficult circumstances, especially in community organisations and informal conflict resolution mechanisms. Still, women remain marginalised in formal peace processes and post-conflict governments. Donors and others in the international community all need to do much more to offer sustainable support rather than just rhetoric.
“Peacebuilding cannot succeed if half the population is excluded from ...

Beyond Victimhood: Women’s Peacebuilding in Sudan, Congo and Uganda, a new report out on the remarkable peace building work that women are doing, discusses how women are being left out of the peace-building process and what ...
By Samhita • 17 years ago

I should really quit smoking.

This is not the first time I have read about this.

Women metabolize nicotine faster than men do — especially women who are taking oral contraceptives — according to a new report. The researchers say this could affect women’s smoking behavior, as well as their response to nicotine-based quitting aids.

And let us not even get started on the corporate culture of addiction, marketing and big corporations that support it (and why I really, really need to quit smoking).

via Reuters.

This is not the first time I have read about this.

Women metabolize nicotine faster than men do — especially women who are taking oral contraceptives — according to a new report. The researchers say this could affect ...

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