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United Nations establishes "UN Women"

After four years of negotiations the United Nations (U.N.) has finally voted to establish a new entity to deal help women...
July 19, 2010

Sarah Palin Embraces the F-Word: Feminist

The great journalist and satirist, H.L. Mencken, was once recorded as saying, "On one issue at least, men and women agree...
July 7, 2010

Utah Legislature Votes to Prosecute Some Miscarriages

Lawmakers in Utah passed a bill last week that leaves women who have miscarriages open to criminal prosecution...
March 3, 2010

The League of Women Voters Celebrates 90 Years

This past weekend was full of a number of celebrations, including the opening ceremonies for the 2010 Winter Olympics, Va...
February 15, 2010

Start Treating Women Like Adults

It was Mark Twain who once famously said: "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick...
February 8, 2010

Women's Equality Day

August 26th is not one of the nation's more well known days of observance, but its importance and place in the history of...
August 26, 2009

Women in the Workplace

Last month the Fair Employment and Housing Commission awarded a Los Angeles woman, Marina Chavez, $20,000 for emotional d...
August 3, 2009

HB 252 Forbids Abortion Without Father's Consent

Ohio State Representative John Adams (R-Sydney) introduced a bill into the House last week that would prevent a woman fro...
July 29, 2009

Kuwait Elects Four Women to Parliment

This week history was made when Kuwait elected four women to parliament. The election came only four short years after wo...
May 20, 2009

Women's Issues to the Forefront

Last week Rep. Jackie Speier(D-Ca) introduced H.R. 1887, a piece of legislation to create a Presidential Commission on Wo...
April 13, 2009
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