YES TO WOMEN'S COLLEGES

The Boston Globe;  October 4, 2006 ;     700+ words ...TWO WOMEN'S colleges, Regis College and Randolph-Macon Woman's College, announced...they will become coeducational. Does this matter? Haven't today's women "made it"? Are women's colleges still relevant today? Yes, every bit as relevant, and in...

Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia.(Book Review)

Canadian Journal of History;  August 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia, by Wendy Z. Goldman. Cambridge, Cambridge University...23.99 US (paper). Though labour historians have written about Soviet industrialization, few focused on women's experiences specifically. Women represented the principal source of new labour ...

Women essential to rebuilding Iraq

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  April 20, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Women essential to rebuilding Iraq By NOELEEN HEYZER Sunday, April 20, 2003 As groups of Iraqi people meet to...compromise, amid the divisive complexities of Iraqi society, is to ensure the extensive participation of women. Indeed, the perspectives of women offer the best promise of meaningful ...

Bridging the confidence gap: here's how banks have been working to help...

Bank Marketing;  April 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ...Although women's assets have been increasing in recent...bankers are devoting greater attention to women's financial services needs. From retirement...substantive research efforts to ensure that women are not stereotyped as a catchall market...

WOMEN IN THE DAYS OF THE CATHEDRALS.(Review)

Theological Studies;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...WOMEN IN THE DAYS OF THE CATHEDRALS. By Regine Pernoud. Translated...classical antiquity and the beginning of the 14th century, women exercised greater personal, political, and economic liberties...a Catholic perspective, she identifies as a key factor in women's higher status the liberating influence of ...

The health of women - a global perspective. (Women and Health)

WIN News;  March 22, 1993 ;     700+ words ...CONTENTS: Women's Health: The Price of Poverty // Mother and More: A Broader Perspective on Women's Health // Women's Nutrition Through the Life Cycle: Social and Biological Vulnerabilities // Infection: Social and Medical Realities // Family Planning...

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 ...

Women and the Powers That Be

The Washington Post;  March 29, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Women journalists around the world say that decisions about what is news are most often made by men and that women's perceptions of what is important are only vaguely factored...according to a report released this month by the International Women's Media Foundation, which polled women journalists at ...

Money: Girls get going as men sit tight Jasmine Birtles asks if women are...

The Independent on Sunday;  October 13, 2002 ;     673 words ...Women are 10 per cent more likely than men to switch their bank...National from the "big Four" banks in the last six months, with women outstripping men. This apparent astuteness is good news for those who have been shaking their heads over women's apparent lack of understanding of personal finance issues...

Women, work, and family in America

Population Bulletin;  December 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Women are on center stage as America approaches the 21st century. More women than ever are in the labor force, more are having children outside of marriage, and women and their children are more likely to be living in poverty...

Narrative and women's ritualizing.

Women and Language;  March 22, 1996 ;     700+ words ...Ritualizing Women Recent years have witnessed an upsurge of interest...a new subfield of ritual studies and liturgics. As women increasingly seek religious meaning in deliberately women-centered spirituality, religionists and others are...

Study finds women need family planning data for economic...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  August 17, 1995 ;     700+ words ...WASHINGTON _ The women of the world would be $11 trillion richer...unpaid labor they perform. But unless more women in developing countries have access to...before history's largest international women's meeting, in Beijing. One report, by the...

Women in the Trees: U.S. Women's Short Stories about Battering and...

Transformations;  March 31, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Women in the Trees: U.S. Women's Short Stories about Battering and Resistance, 1839-1996. The publication of Susan Koppelman's first collection, Images of Women in Literature (1972), established her as one of the founding voices...

Women and Faith: Catholic Religious Life in Italy from Late Antiquity to...

The Catholic Historical Review;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Women and Faith: Catholic Religious Life in Italy from Late Antiquity...to the twentieth century and focus on the relationship of women with the Catholic Church, its institutions and teachings...deal with Italy, they cast their nets widely. The history of women in one part of Europe thus becomes ...

For women only: making the case for gender-specific treatment.

Addiction Professional;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...The women's movement has increased society's understanding and respect for women. It has provided opportunities for women that may not exist otherwise. Pay rates for women have never been better. However, is it possible that the women's movement...