January 2001
January 22-31
Michele Landsberg: Breast-feeding a human right for mom, baby - Toronto Star.
Starving baby like a toy to mother, inquest told - Toronto Star.
Daughters' hopes crushed as second jury finds their father killed their mother - Seattle Times.
An overextension of maternity rights - National Post.
The government should pledge to introduce universal childcare - The Guardian.
Kuwait's highest court rejects women's rights case - Chicago Tribune.
Gender equity and the GOP - Chicago Tribune.
Senate: Senate women gain stature - Chicago Tribune.
Congress: House leadership jobs elude women - Chicago Tribune.
FDA: Politics puts some drugs on the slow track - Chicago Tribune.
Rita Hoover: A cold walk to a moment of utter clarity - Chicago Tribune.
More good news on breast-feeding - Chicago Tribune.
A-TEN-shun: It's time to register women for draft - Boston Globe.
Jennifer L. Pozner: You're soaking in it - The Scotsman.
Back to the cave, girls - The Scotsman.
I was sold to a man ... is this Islam? - The Guardian.
Has choice lost support? Abortion rights groups say that the pro-life president is in the minority, but polls suggest that could be changing - Salon.
What's causing early puberty? New findings point to environmental estrogens - Salon.
Study reports campus rape rates: The Justice Department estimated Friday that 1.7 percent of U.S. college women were raped during the 1996-97 school year and another 1.1 percent were victims of attempted rape - Salon.
Gimme a V-I-C-T-I-M! - Salon.
Teenage Girls and Alcohol - New York Times.
Stonings, Beheadings and Political Repression Haunt Women: For women in some of the world's staunchly Islamic countries, stonings still happen and they don't have the right to vote to effect change - ABC News.
Speaking up for girl power - Sunday Times.
Childless Britons use US rent-a-womb - Sunday Times.
Bush divides U.S. more than ever about abortion - Orlando Sentinel.
Young Women Not as Confident in Computer Skills - New York Times.
A review of Sacred Pleasure: Dominator vs. Partnership models - Connections Journal.
Fetal Pain: Tip of the iceberg - Lifesite.
Carnal Knowledge: Studies say women who are well educated have more varied sex lives than those who are not - New York Times.
Strengthen Social Security for Women - NOW.
Rape documentary leaves 'em reeling - New York Post.
Anti-Abortion Cause Draws Hope From Bush - Yahoo News.
Hague wounded by schoolgirl's military question: Do you think women should be allowed to fight in the front line? - The Times.
Girlie, Interrupted: The generational progress of feminism - The New Republic.
Is it a good thing when women beat the crap out of men at the movies? Perhaps the sight of women beating people up reinforces men's secret belief women are in control of our society - Salon.
As birth rate drops, age of mothers rises - Boston Globe.
Breakup led Pahokee man to kill ex-girlfriend, himself - Sun-Sentinel.
For abuse victims Miami-Dade, help is at fingertips - Sun-Sentinel.
Geraldine Bedell: Dear Dr Greer, we don't all want to live alone - Independent.
Yvonne Roberts: The feminist aim is not about joining the system, but changing it - Independent.
Victorian sensibilities: Queen Victoria was not only our longest reigning monarch but lent her name to an era that, arguably, marked the apogee of Western civilization - Ottawa Citizen.
Watching Bush on women's issues - Philadelphia Inquirer.
Mother-of-two jailed for air rage madness - The Scotsman.
The continuing courage of Abby Drover - Vancouver Sun.
Unwed Mothers: The Myths and the Facts - Washington Post.
Bush Reverses Abortion Aid: U.S. Funds Are Denied to Groups That Promote Procedure Abroad - Washington Post.
Women in the military are here to stay, but how best to use them? - Boston Globe.
When a parent abducts a child: Nothing can protect you against having your child stolen by a disgruntled partner - Irish Times.
Bush to block funds for international abortions - Arizona Republic.
Inmate Sex Scandal Roils South Carolina: The scandal raging over the state's Department of Corrections began with a revelation from convicted child-killer Susan Smith - Washington Post.
January 15-21
Ann Coulter: If Americans support abortion, let's vote - Jewish World Review.
Suzanne Fields: What women want in the new millenium: men to read their minds - Jewish World Review.
Doug Bandow Ending silicone breast implant saga- Jewish World Review.
Bush's Wife Rejects Idea of Overturning Legality of Abortion - International Herald Tribune.
Suffragette Pankhurst will take place of honour at Westminster - Sunday Times.
Robin Morgan's Saturday's Child: Memoirs by women writers get personal with a host of issues, from politics to pregnancy to parent care - Seattle Times.
Bringing together math, science and girls - Seattle Times.
Men may be the weaker sex - MSNBC.
Record number of women killed last year in domestic disputes - Star Tribune.
Women's issues still getting short shrift: Sociologists have charcterised Slovakia's society as a patriarchal one - Slovak Spectator.
Times International: Breasts, beer jests: Women's groups and sociologists have denounced the publication as another example of Slovak society's tolerance of degradation of women - Slovak Spectator.
Alamo settles bias complaint - Miami Herald.
Office Depot Hosts First Annual Women`s Business Conference - Stockhouse News.
Female trouble: Despite promising cast and concept, Showtime's `A Girl Thing' drowns in cliches - Boston Herald.
Women hold the new world in their hands - The Advertiser.
Women to get 33% representation in Zakat bodies - The Dawn.
Greer blasts Blair's Babes: Germaine Greer, the Australian feminist icon, startled political and academic circles yesterday when she launched an attack on Cherie Booth, the lawyer wife of Prime Minister Tony Blair - The Advertiser.
Figures show big gender wage gap: In the UK, a woman's average weekly income is less than half that of a man's - The Times.
Bringing women's issues to the fore: Newly-appointed Women's Affairs Minister Datuk Shahrizat Abdul Jalil said women's issues will no longer be treated in isolation in national policies - The Star.
Working on the pay gap: Imagine a field in which women are paid well and make almost as much as their male counterparts. Then imagine that most women are shunning these jobs - CNN.
Hysteria as children taken from homes - Scotsman.
Sex abuse at day care alleged: Woman who cared for young children and infants reportedly spoke of abuse and tried to prostitute them - Star News.
FCC: Deregulation hurts telecoms owned by women, minorities - C|Net.
Holdup by girls shocks B.C. police: Were girls influenced by Dixie Chicks? - Globe And Mail.
IT pay: Women get short end of stick: A new study shows women start out on a salary par with their male counterparts early in their careers, then fall behind - ZDNet.
If Girls Don't Get IT, IT Won't Get Girls: High school girls show the same level of competence in technology as boys, but are five times less likely to consider IT careers - ACM TechNews.
Government abandons law allowing 'no fault divorce - Independent.
Mahathir names two new ministers in cabinet shuffle: Mahathir finally announced a new cabinet lineup that includes creation of a Ministry of Women's Affairs - Kyodo News.
Maureen Freely: Equality? We still have a long way to go - Independent.
Disrespectful ads under fire from Grace - USA Today.
Laws governing working women must be modernised: Arab laws concerning women's work should be adjusted to reflect economic, social and political changes - Gulf News.
Women's Groups Attacking Ashcroft Receive Taxpayer Money: Radical Groups Take Tax Dollars, Then Run Political Smear Campaign - Concerned Women for America.
NOW Press Release: President Patricia Ireland Joins Other Women's Leaders in Opposition to Ashcroft and Thompson - National Organization for Women.
DA prosecutes mom who gave son condoms - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
January 8-14
Bashir Says Sudan Will Not Sign CEDAW Convention - All Africa.
The politics of protection: Are women who flee domestic violence political refugees? - Salon.
Linda Stasi: Men don't suffer labor pains - New York Post.
Ex-POW says she's no Gulf War hero - Chicago Sun-Times.
Teen, mom struggle to regain lost years - Boston Globe.
Movie gals get macho: - New York Daily News.
Women gain more first class degrees: Figures from Britain's universities and colleges show that women are out-performing men for the first time since degree classification was introduced - This Is London.
A bittersweet reunion: After 14 years, mother finds son; father charged - Boston Globe.
Assailant caught after his victim wrote down his car registration number in mud - The Mirror.
Women are now behind a third of new firms - The Mirror.
Woman who murdered eight-year-old Anna Climbie may have killed two other children - The Mirror.
Canadians salute latest trend in fashion - fake erect nipples: What's next, cod pieces for men? - Sunday Times.
Women still hit by bias in media - Sunday Times.
Women will dominate future army - Sunday Times.
NOW Action Alert: Oppose Ashcroft Nomination for Attorney General - National Organization for Women.
China to allow lawsuits against erring spouses - Times of India.
Census to pay attention to women's status - Times of India.
Why 'the founder of the refuge movement' has got me worried: Never underestimate the value of an ad hominem attack - The Scotsman.
Estrogen linked to lower scores: Women's mental skills vary during monthly cycle - Yahoo Daily News.
Baird, Wood, Chavez: A Not-So-Subtle Message to Women? - TIME.
College athletes - especially women - binge drink more than other students - Boston Herald.
Samsung Establishes Female Counselling Centers - Chosun.
While feminists have obsessed over Roe v. Wade, the real issue is availability - WorkingForChange.
Embracing a Youthful Feminism - Common Dreams.
Petition for victim of unjust alimony: Janet Blake, and her two children, ages 5 and 1 are about to lose their husband/father. Janet's husband, Alan, owes alimony that he cannot pay - Chicago Sun-Times.
Wendy McElroy: Where Feminist Theory Has Gone Wrong - ifeminists.com.
Help for wife mutilated by husband - Guardian Unlimited.
Nigerian government intercedes in planned flogging of teen - CNN.
German Women Gain Job Parity in Military - Washington Post.
Women CEOs On the Rise: Despite gender inequities, women are succeeding in corporate America - CareerBuilder.
Nancy Schaadt: Women in Top Management a Key to Success - Women's enews.
Esta Soler, Peter Sawires: New Federal Privacy Rules Aid Battered Women - Women's enews.
Betsy Hart: Feminine virtues are becoming more important than masculine ones - The Union Leader.
Battered Women: They're just dying to be rescued - Karen Selick.
Feminist Daily News Wire: Chavez's Record on Women is Appalling - Feminist Majority.
Lilly grant lets college launch women's center - StarNews.
Female slaves not women.
NOW: Despite his promise to be a "compassionate conservative," George W. Bush's Cabinet nominees are overwhelmingly radical right-wing ideologues - National Organization for Women.
Cathy Young: Gender-based leniency in courts - Boston Globe.
The fear that dare not speak its name: For some women these days, is a fear of other women - Saturday Night Magazine.
Child slapper agrees to prison - The Record.
Anonymous no more, Norma McCorvey no longer supports abortion rights - CNN.
ALP ability test: just flash us a bit of skirt, darlin' - Sydney Morning Herald.
Michele Landsberg: How long have we really come on women's equity? - Toronto Star.
Michele Landsberg: "Family Values" is a myth of the suburban '50s - Toronto Star.
Michele Landsberg: Rape crisis centre in B.C. endures assault - Toronto Star.
Michele Landsberg: Gender Analysis Helps Eliminate Budget Bias - Toronto Star.
Vancouver rape crisis counsellors get it wrong - Toronto Star.
Violence Against Women Formula Grants Program - U.S. Department of Justice.
Women 'taking over' German neo-nazi parties - Telegraph.
Women splintering the Mafia - New York Daily News.
Wives surrender all to cult of obedience - Sunday Times.
Under-age girls to be given morning-after pill at school - Sunday Times.
No jail time for Florida woman in teen abortion case - Star Tribune.
Ontario government continues efforts to prevent wife assault - Government of Ontario.
January 1-7
Women Tough As Nails in Face of Danger - Yahoo Daily News.
Mom on most-wanted list - Canoe.
Feminists will be out in force on Inauguration Day to demonstrate - National Organization for Women.
Trauma Risk Enough to Keep Abducted Children in U.S., 2nd Circuit Rules - law.com.
Harvard Professor Joins Feminist Plan to Alter the 'Nature' of Males - Massachusetts News.
Women's Health Crisis in C21? - Individual News.
Protecting Battered Women Saves Lives of Men: Efforts to protect women in the United States against domestic violence has had the ironic effect of reducing the murder rate of men by their partners by almost 70 percent over the past 24 years - LA Times.
Breast cancer linked with night shift work: Women who worked night shifts were one-and-a-half times more likely to develop breast cancer than those who worked during the day, Danish researchers have found - The Australian.
Claire Swire - the whole email saga that made her Claire and her boyfriend Bradley Chait famous.
Paternity lab tests branded unethical - The Age.
It's a snowperson: Donald Duck is far from innocent - LineOne.
Cathy Young: It's time for a gender equality movement - Salon.
Cathy Young: Wary of feminism? Ms. doesn't help - Detroit News.
Chinese Women and the Logic of American Feminism - Bad Subjects.
Feminist Majority Rule - Spectator.
Modern Feminism: A Guide to the Ideology and the Literature - Politically Incorrect.
There needs to be a ceasefire in the war between the sexes - The Daily Herald.
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