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On the eve of high-level meetings for the United Nations' general assembly, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attended an event on Monday afternoon designed to highlight the importance of women's participation in public life.
Together with a selection of major female world leaders, including Catherine Ashton, the European Union's top diplomat, and Michelle Bachelet, the former president of Chile and the head of U.N. Women, Clinton put her name to a document calling for developing countries --...
Israel boasts a female opposition leader, high-profile women soldiers, and a female former prime minister. But walk the streets of Jerusalem these days and, in some areas, you’ll see gender-segregated sidewalks, buses, health clinics, and supermarkets—and few billboards or ads depicting women. The capital city has become increasingly segregated as ultra-Orthodox rabbis fight back against what they see as secularization, the AP reports. In one of several examples, the AP notes that Jerusalem...
Tradition holds Mount Athos, a spiritual oasis on the Grecian peninsula of Halkidiki, was a gift of God to the Virgin Mary. Her picture is present throughout the Holy Mount, but she is the only woman the 1,700 Athonian monks living in 20 monasteries will see on the land.For more than 1,000 years, in respect of a monastic tradition separating the sexes to allow them to focus on their spiritual tasks, women have been banned from Mount Athos. Time may no longer be on their side.A growing number of...
"When the Supreme Court voted to legalize abortion and, in my words, bring it out of the backwoods and put it in the hospitals where it belongs, I thought it was a great, great decision." - Betty Ford, R.I.P.
Three decades ago, medical and public health students at UCLA were sometimes taken on a tour of an old hospital ward, previously dedicated to women suffering the aftereffects of illegal abortions. I believe there had been something like 70 beds then and the veteran professor who...
It looks like City Hall may be emerging from the Dark Ages when it comes to offering paid maternity leave to pregnant women.
Tucked away in the memo from Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s chief of staff about the sweeping review of employee leave policies currently under way is one line that’s likely to warm the hearts of thousands of women on the city payroll.
“Importantly, the rules regarding the issuance of administrative leave must be reviewed, considering as well a maternity leave policy,” chief of...
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana is not allowed to cut off Planned Parenthood's public funding for general health services solely because the organization also provides abortions, a federal judge said Friday in blocking parts of the state's tough new abortion law.
U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton Pratt's ruling granted Planned Parenthood of Indiana's request for a preliminary injunction on the state's move to defund the organization. It also sided with federal officials who said states cannot restrict...
