India: Women of UP, Unite!

Women's Feature Service;  July 5, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Lucknow, (Women's Feature Service) - Political skirmishes...not include the approximately 78 million women of the state. As political parties floated...promises were few and far between for the women of UP. The manifestoes had conveniently...

THE WOMEN'S CENTER

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  December 1, 2002 ;     167 words ...THE WOMEN'S CENTER United Way provides necessary...community for the past 25 years, The Women's Center has come to rely greatly...charge: emergency shelter for abused women and their children, transitional living, group and individual counseling, on-site and respite child care, ...

International Women's Day.(Brief Article)

Pravahini-WERC News Letter;  June 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...International Women's Day celebrated each year on March 8, remains as a vibrant day in the women's calendar. Women's organisations have continued their struggle against the many aspects of women's lives that still keep them burdened with problems...

Nepal: 'Our Leaders Want Weak Women'

Women's Feature Service;  September 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Women's Feature Service 940 words Kathmandu, (Women's Feature Service) - Women played a major role in Nepal's 'Rhododendron Revolution' (named after the ubiquitous rhododendron - to signify...

Shelter aids battered women

Chicago Sun-Times;  November 24, 1986 ;     302 words ...Battered women can be as young as teenagers or...coming in," Garretson said. "Some women have lived with it for 40 years...day. Last month, we helped 70 women, 20 children, 12 men and provided 15 nights of shelter. "We have individual counseling and support groups for women. The groups ...

Women--deconstructed but still here.(Women's Studies for the Future:...

The Women's Review of Books;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Women's Studies for the Future: Foundations, Interrogations, Politics...Elizabeth Kennedy, an established author and senior scholar in women's studies, and Agatha Beins, a graduate student in the field...problems that drive contemporary scholarship and pedagogy in women's studies in the United States. They ...

Carmakers battle for women buyers

Chicago Sun-Times;  January 23, 1986 ;     700+ words ...Women and the car market have become a hot topic. In the early...percent of the cars sold in the United States were delivered to women as owners and/or principal drivers. That wasn't a high percentage...estimated $46 billion - that were under direct influence of women buyers. Automakers fight for each sale ...

Rethinking radicalism. (Tanzania and Uganda).(women's movements)

off our backs;  March 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Women all over the world are not safe. The level of threat, intimidation, coercion and fear in women's lives makes it hard to remember that security of person...prevent domestic violence. I have learned that the lives of women everywhere reflect the compromises, the concessions and the...

Bad choices by too many women

Sunday News Lancaster, PA;  January 27, 2008 ;     700+ words ......East Hempfield, Manheim Township and Bent Creek; women who are doctors, educators and politicians. At every socioeconomic level, there are women who are willing to sell their souls so they do not have to be alone. Women accept abuse, estrangement from their family and...exchange for a "family," status ...

SPOTLIGHTING AIDS AS A WOMEN'S ISSUE : CLINIC WILL SERVE ALL-FEMALE...

Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  December 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......Northeast Valley clinic will help encourage more women to seek treatment and testing, Jackson-McCarty said...myself, it's just more privacy,'' she said. ``Some women who come in are embarrassed. You need to be able...specializes in female HIV symptoms.'' It is not the only women's clinic in the Valley. ...

Women still a minority in upper management positions

The Mississippi Business Journal;  June 16, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Women want to see the value of their work reflected in their paychecks...the U.S. Dept. of Labor. For African American and Hispanic women, the statistics are even less. During a national interactive teleconference put on by the U.S. Department of Labor's Women's Bureau, working women aired their ...

Helping Women In Need;`Swamp' of Issues Addressed at Center

The Washington Post;  October 5, 1989 ;     700+ words ......costs. Mueller reports that attitudes of younger women toward divorce now are far more sophisticated than...mothers, many of whom were in the first generation of women to experience frequent divorce and the sudden need to rely on their own resources. As a result, young women increasingly are insisting on ...

BENEFICIARY: WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE

Boise Weekly;  August 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......safe beds for women and children...Education, advocacy, individual counseling, case management...five years, 945 women and 1,348 children...clients sought individual counseling; and 9,141 sessions...children sought individual counseling, and 2,694 sessions...as many as ...

Gender Equity in Televised Sports: A Comparative Analysis of Men's and...

Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Women's college basketball is enjoying unprecedented popularity in the United States. ESPN and other sports networks report results of both men's and women's games on their tickers and news programs (Tuggle, 1997) and NCAA Division I women's basketball games are available for viewing on a variety of ...

Women making inroads into traditionally male-dominated commercial real...

The Enterprise;  September 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Women are making inroads into a variety of high-power industries and the world of commercial real estate is no...are finding the doors opening wider every day. "I think at first there may have been some hesitation for women entering this business. Women are viewed differently in the business world," said ...