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women stories: 275 news summaries

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Kidney Sales Brisk On India's Black Market

Desperate tsunami survivors
sacrificing their kidneys, getting ripped off by doctors and dealers

May 9, 07 10:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Women impoverished by the catastrophic tsunami of 2004 are selling their kidneys on India's lucrative black market in ever increasing numbers. Wired reports on an international organ-donor scandal in which desperate donors are often ripped off by unscrupulous doctors and dealers who take the organs and keep the money. More »

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organ harvesting • India • women • black market • organ donor • kidney • organ trafficking

Lefty Women Die Younger

Stunner Dutch study shows 70% higher risk
of dying from cancer

May 2, 07 12:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Left-handed women have a dramatically higher risk of mortality from just about every disease, a new study reported in the Telegraph shows. Dutch researchers who followed more than 12,000 women for nearly 13 years found lefties had a 40% greater chance of dying from any cause, 70% higher from... More »

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medicine • health • women's health • disease • women • lefties

Threats Force Women Out of Blogosphere

Virtual sexual harassment stifles voices, raises fears of real-world hostility

Apr 30, 07 10:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Violent, sexualized threats against female bloggers are forcing some of them out of the online community, reports the Washington Post. The problem, highlighted by the harassment that caused Kathy Sierra to suspend her popular technology blog, is frustrating at best; at worst, it causes women to fear for their safety... More »

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blogosphere • Internet • women • Kathy Sierra • sexual harassment • discrimination • blogging • blog

South Korean Women Get
In the Swing  

Pak blazes trail to top of pro golf world

Apr 25, 07 1:36 PM CDT
(Newser) - Men dominate business in South Korea, and the country has just 250 golf courses. Yet in the nine years since Se Ri Pak won four tournaments as an LPGA rookie, South Koreans have come to dominate the world's top women's tour, the Journal reports.  Ambitious parents even pull their... More »

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South Korea • golf • women • Se Ri Pak • LPGA

Stop Periods, Period?

They call it the curse, but women are mixed on birth control pill that stops menstruation

Apr 20, 07 11:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - Women may complain about their periods, but would they miss them when they're gone? The FDA is set to approve an oral contraceptive that suppresses periods entirely, sparking controversy—including a documentary making the rounds of college campuses—over the meaning of menstruation. More »

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contraception • FDA • health • women's health • women • birth control • birth control pill

Breast Cancer Decline Tied to Hormone Drop

Study links 'colossal'  reduction in cancer to women skipping estrogen

Apr 19, 07 9:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Researchers are linking a dramatic drop in the number of breast cancer cases to the decline in estrogen consumption by menopausal women. Women dropped hormone replacement therapy en mass after a 2002 study tied it to breast cancer risk. Other scientists argued that the decline—about 16,000 fewer new... More »

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cancer • medicine • health • breast cancer • women's health • women • hormone replacement therapy • ovarian cancer • estrogen • hormones • medical study

Study: Men Work Hard, Too

Apr 18, 07 1:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Men and women work about the same number of hours—if you count labor at home as well as on the job, a new study claims. Despite the popular wisdom that women do more heavy lifting, a broad survey of 25 countries, spanning the economic spectrum,  found that both... More »

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work • women • men • equality • study • labor • working mothers

To Work Or
Not to Work?

Provocative book worries about women giving up good careers to be trophy moms

Apr 3, 07 1:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - The feminist generation gap gets a sharp appraisal in "The Feminine Mistake," the new book by Leslie Bennetts that questions why so many upscale young women are abandoning careers for children. Joan Walsh finds it a refreshing rebuttal to recent paens to motherhood, especially since Bennetts recognizes that ... More »

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gender • motherhood • families • feminism • Feminine Mistake • Joan Walsh • housewives • women • children • Leslie Bennetts • working mothers • career

 Docs Tell Younger Women: Avoid Mammograms

Younger women should think twice before x-raying breasts, docs say

Apr 3, 07 8:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Forty-something women should consider skipping their annual mammograms, the American College of Physicians is suggesting after a new review of research. Docs point to danger from radiation and unnecessary biopsies, surgery and chemotherapy, thanks in part to a high rate of false positives.  "We don't think the evidence... More »

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cancer • technology • health • breast cancer • American Cancer Society • women • science • mammogram

Web Sexism Spurs Meltdown

Salon Editor offers
mea culpa for years
of telling women to
ignore it and "man up"

Apr 2, 07 7:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Salon Editor-in-chief Joan Walsh admits that sexist web trolls are a serious problem, despite her own longtime dismissal of the issue. Her mea culpa follows the implosion of programming instructor and game developer Kathy Sierra's blog after Sierra was assaulted, on her site and others, by crude sexual insults and... More »

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Internet • feminism • women • sexism • discrimination • blog

Teens Taught Fertility 101

Mar 21, 07 9:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new book teaches teenage girls how to determine when they are (and are not) most likely to become pregnant, but some adults are sure they want girls to have the information. Cycle Savvy,The Smart Teen's Guide to the Mysteries of Her Body by Toni Weschler, shows teens how... More »

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contraception • pregnancy • fertility • Toni Weschler • women • sex • birth control • teenager

Modern Moms Do More for Kids

Mar 20, 07 9:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - Modern mothers spend more time with their children than those in the June Cleaver era, a new study concludes. Diaries compiled for the study show that, despite working more, today's moms spend less time on things like housework, leisure, and sleep to devote four more hours per week to interacting... More »

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motherhood • fatherhood • families • parenting • women • children • mothers

Go Ahead: Drink a Little

Mar 20, 07 9:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Guardian columnist Zoe Williams strikes a blow for drinking in moderation during pregnancy, arguing against a proposed prohibition of the sort that has been in effect in the United States for years. It's insulting to the intelligence of women to ban all alcohol, she says, when it's only binge drinking... More »

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pregnancy • women's health • alcohol • women • baby • drinking • in utero

The Women's War

The Unprecedented Deployment of Women's in the Iraq War Has Created Unprecedented Challenges for Them and the Armed Forces

Mar 18, 07 8:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sara Corbett writes in The New York Times Magazine about the role of women soldiers in the Iraq war and the extraordinary toll it is taking on many of them. More »

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Iraq • women • harassment • US Army • soldier • PTSD • Iraq war

Afghan Women Choose Death by Fire

Mar 16, 07 11:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new human rights report suggests that self-immolation is on the rise among Afghan women, who believe setting themselves on fire is the only sure way to end their agonized lives. The study interviewed the family members of 800 such women, who reported that rape, domestic violence, and accusations against... More »

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Afghanistan • human rights • women • women's rights • domestic violence

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