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Pay People to Cook at Home

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By KRISTIN WARTMAN - May. 11 (Opinion) - But how do we get there? For many of us, whether we are full-time workers or full-time parents, this home-cooked meal is a fantasy removed from the reality of everyday life. And so Americans continue to rely on highly processed and refined foods that are

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Officials, Citing Miscarriages, Weigh Death Penalty in Ohio Case

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Trip Gabriel, Steven Yaccino - May. 09 (News Report) - As more grim details emerged Thursday about the long captivity of the three women rescued from imprisonment in a dilapidated home here, one official compared the victims to survivors of a P.O.W. camp, and prosecutors said they would seek murder charges against the man held in the abductions, accusing him of forcing at least one of the women to miscarry.

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Prices Cut for HPV Cervical Cancer Vaccines for Neediest

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. - May. 09 (News Report) - The two companies that make vaccines against cervical cancer announced Thursday that they would cut their prices to the world’s poorest countries below $5 per dose, eventually making it possible for millions of girls to be protected against a major cance

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Best of the Web Today: 'Stop Being a Baby'

Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - May. 09 (Opinion) - Infanticide and the infantilization of women.

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Pentagon Study Finds 26,000 Military Sexual Assaults Last Year, Over 70 Sex Crimes Per Day

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - May. 08 (Special Report) - A shocking new report by the Pentagon has found that 70 sexual assaults may be taking place within the U.S. military every day. The report estimates there were 26,000 sex crimes committed in 2012, a jump of 37 percent since 2010. Most of the incidents were never reported. The findings were released two days after the head of the Air Force's sexual assault prevention unit, Lt. Col. Jeffrey Krusinski, was arrested for sexual assault. We air highlights from Tuesday's Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on military sexual assault and speak with Anu Bhagwati, executive director and co-founder of Service Women's Action Network. "The numbers are outrageous, and I think we've reached a tipping point," Bhagwati says. "The American public is furious."

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Chief of the U.S. Air Force Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Charged with... Sexual Battery

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Katie McDonough - May. 08 (News Report) - Krusinski is accused of drunkenly fondling a woman in a parking lot, according to Arlington County police

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Islamists Demand that Bangladesh's Women Stay at Home

Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Global Voices - By Pantha Rahman Reza, Rezwan - May. 05 (News) - Members of a radical Islamist party in Bangladesh attacked female journalists on assignment as the group marched in the country's capital to demand strict Islamic law, including a ban on free mixing of the sexes. Until its demands are met, the party has promised to cut off the city of Dhaka from the rest of the country on May 5, 2013 by stationing its activists at all six entry points into the city.

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Pakistan's women face battle for the right to vote

Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Tracy McVeigh - May. 04 (News) - Female activists plan to deploy protection teams to polling stations in forthcoming elections Fears over the safety of women voting in next week's elections in Pakistan are rising after letters have been circulated in regions of the country warning men not to allow their wives, sisters and daughters out to the polling stations. In an increasingly fraught and violent runup to the 11 May vote, leaflets are appearing stating that it is "un-Islamic" for women to participate in democracy. Now a group of young female activists are planning to challenge what they call the government's inability to protect women's right to vote by organising their own protection teams at individual polling stations in tense and volatile Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, one of the four provinces of Pakistan, formerly known as the North West Frontier Province. In what is being called Pakistan's youth election – almost a third of the electorate is between 18 and 29 – a growing tide of young women are determined to overcome ...

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Prude or prudent? The debate over access to Plan B

Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Kathleen Parker - May. 04 (Opinion) - They lost me at the word “women.” As so often happens in contemporary debate, arguments being proffered in support of allowing teenagers as young as 15 (and possibly younger) to buy the “morning-after pill” without adult supervision are false on their premise. ...

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Climate change hurts women. Wall Street Journal sneers. - Grist

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Grist - By John Upton - May. 02 (News Report) - Women in the developing world, many of whom work in agriculture, are vulnerable to climate change. Apparently the idea of girls being sold off into early marriage and women being pushed into prostitution is fucking hilarious.

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Drug Agency Lowers Age For Next-Day Birth Control

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Pam Belluck - Apr. 30 (News) - The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it would make the most widely known morning-after pill available without a prescription to girls and women ages 15 and older, and also make the pill available on drugstore shelves, instead of keeping it locked up behind pharmacy counters.

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TIMELINE: Deinstitutionalization And Its Consequences

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Deanna Pan - Apr. 29 (Investigative Report) - 1773 The first patient is admitted to the Public Hospital for Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds in Williamsburg, Virginia. The rebuilt Public Hospital for Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds in Williamsburg. Wikipedia 1841 Boston schoolteacher Dorothea Dix visits the East Cambridge Jail where she first sees the horrible living conditions of the mentally ill. Believing they could be cured, Dix lobbies lawmakers and courts for better treatment until her death in 1887. Her efforts lead to the establishment of 110 psychiatric hospitals by 1880. Dorothea Dix Wikipedia 1887 On assignment for New York World , Nellie Bly feigns lunacy in order to be admitted to the Women"s Lunatic Asylum on New York"s Blackwell"s Island. Her exposé, " Ten Days in a Mad-house ," detailing the appalling living conditions at the asylum, leads to a grand jury investigation and needed reforms at the institution. Wikipedia 1907 ...

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Unemployment among UK women rising to 25-year high, survey finds

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Amelia Hill - Apr. 24 (Opinion) - Almost three times as many women as men have become long-term unemployed since 2010, says Fawcett Society Almost 1.5 million women could be unemployed by 2018 if the government's current plans for job growth continue as planned, according to a new survey. Women's unemployment is rising to a 25-year-high, while men's is decreasing, with 60% of new private-sector jobs since the first quarter of 2010 going to men. The report by the Fawcett Society , which campaigns for gender equality on pay, pensions, poverty, justice and politics, found that almost three times as many women as men have become long-term unemployed in the last two and a half years: 103,000 women compared with 37,000 men. The report found that women have not only already borne the brunt of cuts to the public-sector workforce but that, with 75% of the cuts yet to be felt, the future is even bleaker. Ceri Goddard, chief executive of the Fawcett Society, said: "The labour market is in the midst of enormous change. Almost a ...

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India Considers Banning Pornography as Reported Sexual Assault Rises

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Neha Thirani Bagri, Heather Timmons - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - India Ink: India Considers Banning Pornography as Reported Sexual Assault Rises

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After rape of 5-year-old girl, India debates even stricter punishments

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - Apr. 21 (News Analysis) - India recently passed tougher sentences for rape convictions. After this latest case, protesters want even harsher penalties put in place, but analysts argue police reform is more ...

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Afghan Girls School Poisoning: 74 Girls Poisoned in Suspected Taliban Gas Attack

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

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Orphan Fever: The Evangelical Movement's Adoption Obsession

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By Kathryn Joyce - Apr. 15 (Comment) - IN 2005, SAM ALLISON, a Tennessee housepainter in his 30s, arrived at Daniel Hoover Children's Village , an orphanage outside Monrovia, Liberia. He'd come to adopt three children, but ended up with four: five-year-old Cherish; her nine-year-old brother, Isaiah; their 13-year-old sister, CeCe, who had taken care of them for years; and Engedi, a sickly infant whom Sam and an adoption broker had retrieved from "deep in the bush." The older children's father had sent them to Daniel Hoover during Liberia's 14-year civil war, after their mother died in childbirth.

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7 Chilling Facts About Retirement in America That Should Make Obama Tremble Before Cutting Social Security and Medicare

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Lynn Stuart Parramore - Apr. 09 (Opinion) - We are headed for a catastrophic retirement train wreck. A Wall Street-driven financial crisis has stripped millions of people of things like jobs, pensions and home equity that were supposed to deliver a dignified retirement after a lifetime of hard work. The crisis has also provided certain interests the opportunity to make false claims about the “unaffordability” of vital social insurance programs like Social Security and Medicare that help the 99% make it. These opportunistic “ Raiders of Your Lost Retirement” do not give a hoot if you starve in your golden years – this is about money to them

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Women hit back at India's rape culture

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Gethin Chamberlain - Apr. 06 (Comment) - A self-defence group in Lucknow have a simple message to the men who make their lives a misery – stop it, or else The male tormentor of the young women of the Madiyav slum did not spot the danger until it was too late. One moment he was taunting them with sexual suggestions and provocations; the next they had hold of his arms and legs and had hoisted him into the air. Then the beating began. Some of the young women lightly used their fists, others took off their shoes and hit him with those. When it was over, they let him limp away to nurse his wounds, certain that he had learned an important lesson: don't push your luck with the Red Brigade. Named for their bright red outfits, the Red Brigade was formed in November 2011 as a self-defence group for young women suffering sexual abuse in the northern Indian city of Lucknow, 300 miles south-east of Delhi. Galvanised by the gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old medical student in Delhi last December and the nationwide protests that followed ...

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American Woman Gang-Raped on Transit Van in Rio de Janeiro

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Simon Romero, Taylor Barnes - Apr. 02 (News) - The harrowing assault stunned many in Brazil, especially as Rio de Janeiro tries to promote itself as a city on the mend and prepares to host the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games.

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The Girl Who Fired an Outcry in India

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Shoma Chaudhury - Apr. 02 (Comment) - One horrible night, innocent victims, devastated families—and a country seething with rage and violence, stuck between feudal hierarchies and the modern economy.

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Indian court rejects Novartis cancer patent bid

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - Apr. 01 (News Report) - Healthcare activists welcome landmark ruling they say will give poor patients continued access to cheap medicines India's supreme court has rejected drugmaker Novartis AG's attempt to patent a new version of a cancer drug in a landmark decision that healthcare activists say ensures poor patients around the world will get continued access to cheap versions of lifesaving medicines. Novartis had argued it needed a patent to protect its investment in the cancer drug Glivec, while activists said the company was trying to use loopholes to make more money out of a drug whose patent had expired. The decision has global implications since India's $26bn (£17bn) generic drug industry supplies much of the cheap medicine used in the developing world. The ruling sets a precedent that will prevent international pharmaceutical companies from obtaining fresh patents in India on updated versions of existing drugs, said Pratibha Singh, a lawyer for the Indian generic drug manufacturer Cipla, which ...

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Novartis denied cancer drug patent in landmark Indian case

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:00 -0700

The Guardian - By Sarah Boseley - Apr. 01 (News) - The Indian supreme court has refused to allow one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies to patent a new version of a cancer drug, a decision campaigners hailed as a major step forward in enabling poor people to access medicines in the developing world. Novartis lost a six-year legal battle after the court ruled that small changes and improvements to the drug Glivec did not amount to innovation deserving of a patent. T

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Libertarians' Idea of the "Most Free" State Is One of America's Most Woman-Hating

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Alex Pareene - Mar. 30 (Special Report) - The Mercatus Institute, a libertarian-oriented — and Koch brothers-affiliated — think tank based out of George Mason University (a public university, for whatever that’s worth), regularly releases its ranking of American states in terms of “Freedom.” Their definition of “freedom” largely adheres to the standard American libertarian conception of “liberty,” which is to say it is oriented almost entirely around private property ownership and low taxation. As a result, America’s freest state this year turns out to be North Dakota. North Dakota has also been in the news for another reason recently. What was it, again? Oh, right, it passed the most restrictive antiabortion laws in the country. Including a law specifically aimed at shutting down the state’s lone abortion provider. It passed this law knowing it was unconstitutional.

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Bachmann’s Killer Health Care Claims

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - Mar. 23 (Fact Check) - Rep. Michele Bachmann claims that “vulnerable women, vulnerable children, vulnerable senior citizens” will all “pay more” under the federal health care law and get “less” in return. The law actually provides free preventive services for women, increases prescription drug coverage for seniors and extends funding for the children’s health program … More >>

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