Alone in Silence: European Women in the Canadian North Before 1940.(Book...

Northern Review;  June 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Alone in Silence: European Women in the Canadian North Before 1940...0-7735-2292-1. Kelcey provides an overview of European women's experiences in the Canadian North...that at least five hundred white, European women were in the region between 1867 and...

Myth and Reality; Forget all the talk of equal opportunity. European women...

Newsweek International;  February 27, 2006 ;     700+ words ......attitudes toward women. It's not that European women are stuck in the house. (After...lawsuit in the United States, European women are less likely to fight back...result is a system where most European women do some kind of work outside the...

European women say no to war

Herizons;  April 1, 2003 ;     251 words ...The European Women's Lobby, representing over 3,000 women...women's rights. At a recent meeting, European women called for: - The rejection of unilateral...resolution and sustainable peace. Source: European Women's Lobby, Brussels

How the other half works. (employment of European women)

The Economist (US);  June 30, 1990 ;     700+ words ......of them do so now than in 1980. Quantity, not quality Women's share of employment has grown accordingly. Men lost almost 3m jobs in the EC between 1980 and 1987; women gained almost as many. This is not pure gain, however...which em ploy almost three-quarters of Europe's working women. But it also ...

EuroFem: European Women Take Action

WE International;  January 1, 1999 ;     650 words ......Liisa Horelli In 1994, European women set up EuroFEM. This network...can have on the lives of women, children and men. EuroFEM...roFEM's vision. Funded by the European Union, EuroFEM also set out to evaluate 16 "women's" projects which: 1...

EUROPE-WOMEN: EUROPEAN WOMEN'S GROUPS FEAR A LETDOWN AT BEIJING

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  August 23, 1995 ;     700+ words ......here fear that key issues for European women, like decision-making rights and...Hefferlich, general secretary of the European Women's Lobby, an umbrella group of...to equal treatment with Western European women. "Conditions for women in Central...

European Women and Preindustrial Craft

Business History Review;  July 1, 1996 ;     405 words ...European Women and Preindustrial Craft. By Darryl M...5; paper, $14.94, ISBN 0-253-20943-9. European Women and Preindustrial Craft shows how much we still have to learn about women in craft occupations. The ten papers included...

Siemens Survey: European Women Are Receptive to UMTS

Wireless News;  December 2, 2003 ;     243 words ......News 12-02-2003 Siemens Survey: European Women Are Receptive to UMTS WIRELESS NEWS-2 December 2003-Siemens Survey: European Women Are Receptive to UMTS (C)2003...it comes to mobile messaging, European women like to be in the loop, according...

EUROPEAN WOMEN EARN HALF OF FAMILY'S INCOME.(Lifestyles/Spotlight)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  March 7, 1996 ;     209 words ......Three out of five working women in Europe take home at least...a survey unveiled by the European Women's Lobby said this week. The...organization, interviewed 6,781 women and men in Britain, France...ill-suited to the role of modern women. The European Women's Lobby said it ...

NEW ORGANISATION TO PROMOTE EUROPEAN WOMEN.

European Report;  December 15, 1999 ;     125 words ......Association for the Promotion of European Women was launched on December 9. The...the aim of making the actions of European women more visible and to celebrate the action of notable European women. Rodi Kratsa (EPP/Greece) and...

EU survey: European women get higher education than men but fail to get...

AP Worldstream;  March 6, 2006 ;     450 words ......Dateline: BRUSSELS, Belgium European women achieve a higher education...officials said before International Women's Day on Wednesday. The report...1998 and 2006, showed that women were more likely to be unemployed...than men. The jobless rate for women was 9.6 percent compared to...

WOMEN'S RIGHTS: NEW PRESIDENT FOR EUROPEAN WOMEN'S LOBBY.(Lydia la...

European Report;  October 2, 2002 ;     208 words ......been elected President of the European Women's Lobby (EWL) for a two-year...the biggest coalition of women's organisations in Europe...EDF). I want to guide the European Women's Lobby in a direction wherein...opportunities and rights for all women, not only on the labour market...

Conferees discuss violence against European women.

United Press International;  May 8, 2000 ;     282 words ......Portugal, May 6 (UPI) A European Union study cited at a Lisbon...conference on violence against women Saturday says one in four European women is a victim of serious violence...than half of all murdered women were killed by husbands...issue of violence against women has barely even ...

Sex Slavery Flourishes In Kosovo; E. European Women Forced Into Brothels

The Washington Post;  April 24, 2000 ;     700+ words ...The sex-slave traffic in East European women, one of the major criminal...and troops have rescued 50 women--Moldovan, Ukrainian, Bulgarian...in sexual servitude. "These women have been reduced to slavery...Kosovo that has rescued 23 women on raids of brothels in Pristina...

Russian and West European Women, 1860-1939: Dreams, Struggles, and...

Canadian Slavonic Papers;  March 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......Russian and West European Women, 1860-1939: Dreams...and West European women, this work may be...presents a picture of women separated by class...Russian and Soviet women. On several occasions...one or more of the European nations is cursory...