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...

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...

Women's Studies: A Model for a Specialty in Women's Health

Transformations;  September 30, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Women's Studies: A Model for a Specialty in Women's Health Barely more than two decades old, Women's Studies has held the status in academia of an emerging field. Because of its political connections...

Halifax conference looks at women's place in university

University Affairs;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Women's representation, the future of women's studies and leadership were among the wide range of topics presented at the international conference The future of women's studies and of women's postsecondary education were prominent...

Women use networking power.(Metropolitan Times)(Life Times)

The Washington Times;  February 18, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Women's networks go back as far as quilting bees and sewing circles, but leave it to Washington women worker bees to turn a women's group with no special focus into a national organization. Women of Washington (WW), a 5-year-old, nonprofit...

Women in Management.(Brief Article)

Public Personnel Management;  March 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Women have only recently begun to join the ranks of managers in large numbers. The emergence of women into the work force has precipitated many discussions. This paper discusses some of the major issues surrounding women in management and proposes some organizational and individual...

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 ...

IF WOMEN ASSERTED THEIR ECONOMIC CLOUT.(Business)(Column)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  April 25, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Women statistically don't earn as much as men. That much we know. But the fact that women collectively may have more purchasing power than men is not...Buying Guide'' (Plenum Publishing Corp., 1997, $19.95). If women realized how much spending power they had, they could harness...

Writing women into the curriculum.

Social Education;  May 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...TEACHING WOMEN'S HISTORY is still emphasized more at the...decades. (1) The major obstacles to teaching women's history at the elementary and secondary...experts in recent years have suggested that women's history should be integrated into the...

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...

Women's Consumer Network Partners with Women.com.

PR Newswire;  May 12, 2000 ;     586 words ...Women's Web Destinations Show Cooperation Works WASHINGTON, May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The Women's Consumer Network (www.womensconsumer.net), an online resource for busy, professional women and a top women's Web site destination, today announces a...

The fight for women's right to vote

Chicago Sun-Times (IL);  March 11, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Women's suffrage represented the first stage in the demands by women for political equality. Individual women demanded Women's Suffrage, the right of women to vote in political elections, as early as the 1600s...

Women and the Remaking of Politics in Southern Africa: Negotiating...

The International Journal of African Historical Studies;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Women and the Remaking of Politics in Southern Africa: Negotiating...240. $37.50/ 19.95/ euro28.00 / SEK 280 paper. In the 1990s women's representation in many Southern African parliaments significantly...attempts to assess the significance and problems of changes in women's formal governmental ...