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Writer Wrestles With Visit to Long-Necked Thai Tribe

Overcomes angry tour guides, conscience

Aug 23, 09 6:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Most travel companies refuse to take tourists to Thailand’s Burmese Padaung tribe—whose women wear neck coils that artificially elongate their necks—arguing that the practice is exploitative. But Amit R. Paley, writing for the Washington Post, ultimately found a guide and wrestled down his conscience. "My ability... More »

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travel • Thailand • tourism • women • tribes • Burma • exploitation

BOOK REVIEW

Hotties Hate Marriage
in Prospect Park West

Get ready to meet the scheming gals of Prospect Park West

Aug 23, 09 4:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - Kudos to Carrie Bradshaw for seeking sex in the city, because marriage in the city apparently stinks, Annie Karni writes in the New York Post. Author Amy Sohn’s dark new tome about marriage and motherhood, Prospect Park West, is garnering praise as the next Sex and the City, following... More »

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women • Sex and the City • book reviews • Carrie Bradshaw

OPINION

 Women, 
 Time to 
 Compete 
 Against 
 the Men 

Eliminating divisions will solve gender identity issues in sports

Aug 23, 09 12:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Female athletes will always be inherently inferior to their male counterparts unless they can directly prove their mettle against them, Dominic Lawson writes in a provocative column for the Times of London. His solution: “Let there be no male or female athletics championships. Instead, let men and women—and... More »

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gender • sports • women • men • athletics • Olympics • gender confusion • Caster Semenya

glossies

 World's Most Powerful Women 


Aug 19, 09 9:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - German leader Angela Merkel keeps her spot as the world's most powerful woman for the fourth straight year on the annual Forbes list. Other notables in the top 100: Michelle Obama debuts at 40, just ahead of Oprah (41) and Queen Elizabeth (42). Hillary Clinton is 36, down from 28... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Hillary Clinton • Angela Merkel • Queen Elizabeth • Michelle Obama • women • Oprah Winfrey • Sheila Bair • Sonia Sotomayor

(AP) - The number of women charged with driving under the influence has increased nearly 30% during the past decade, Transportation Department officials said today, while the number of men fell 7.5% in the same period. The department says the number of impaired women involved in a fatal crash increased in... More »

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women • drunk driving • arrest • statistics • Department of Transportation • Ray LaHood • Diane Schuler

(Newser) - PETA has rolled out a new ad campaign that does not sit well with the more portly among us, the Huffington Post reports. A billboard in Jacksonville, Fla., features a cartoon of an overweight woman in a bikini with the message: “Save the whales, Lose the Blubber: Go Vegetarian.... More »

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obesity • women • PETA • vegetarianism • overweight • swimsuit • People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals • Tracy Reiman • beach body

Ahmadinejad Names 3 Women to Cabinet

But female ministers are hardliners, unlikely to please reformers

Aug 17, 09 5:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today he would nominate three women to join his cabinet, reports the Guardian, attempting to soften his image after the brutal crackdowns following his disputed re-election. The decision is significant in a country where just eight of 290 MPs are female. But the two women whose names... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • women • Muslim women • Iranian politics • Iranian election

 41 Women, Kids Die in 
 Kuwait Wedding Blaze 

Guests stampeded to party tent's only exit

Aug 16, 09 12:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - A fire at a wedding near Kuwait City claimed the lives of 35 women and six children today, the BBC reports. Another 60 women and children were also injured as a tent holding the wedding caught fire and caved in over the course of just 3 minutes, causing a brutal... More »

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women • children • wedding • Kuwait • stampede • fire • injured

OPINION

 Ladies, Pick Up Thy Power Tool 


Aug 13, 09 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sara Mosle “came of age betwixt and between,” she writes on DoubleX—after feminism had freed women from the need to learn “traditional female skills” but before “they had begun to make real inroads into traditional male pastimes and professions.” So that left her with... More »

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feminism • housewives • work • women • home • physical activity • carpentry

OPINION

 It's Time to Start 
 Taking Hillary Seriously 

She's still trivialized as she fights to empower women

Aug 13, 09 8:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton’s trip to Congo was meant to help fulfill a promise to focus on women’s issues, but it seems to have turned on one woman's issues. Though “there could have been no more dramatic setting,” writes Judith Warner in the New York Times, “back... More »

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Hillary Clinton • women • women's rights • State Department • secretary of State • Bill Clinton • beer • Congo • Dana Milbank • women's issues

Optimistic Women Face Lower Heart Disease Risk

Subjects less likely to die of any cause over set period

Aug 11, 09 10:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Women 50 and up who see the glass as half full have a lower risk of getting heart disease—or dying of any cause—than their half-empty peers, a study suggests. Researchers found that over 8 years, the most optimistic subjects in their 97,000-woman-strong study faced a 9% lower... More »

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health • women • heart disease • psychology • optimism • health research • health study • postmenopausal women • attitudes • women's issues

(Newser) - Hundreds of women marched through Kathmandu yesterday to protest a government plan to offer $600 to anybody who marries a widow, the Independent reports. The government says the scheme will help overcome social stigmas attached to widowhood, but the women say it is insulting and warn that it will lead... More »

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women • protests • Nepal • human trafficking • widows • women's issues

ANALYSIS

 Female Sex Crimes: 
 Society's Last Taboo 

Gender myths, unreported cases allow problem to persist unchecked

Aug 8, 09 6:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - A mother’s love is supposed to be sacred, which may explain why Britain is struggling to face up to child molestation at the hands of women, Charlotte Philby writes in the Independent. Stats are hard to come by, but one UK abuse organization says 11% of callers in 2004—... More »

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United Kingdom • women • child molestation • sexual abuse • taboo • pedophilia

(Newser) - The gunman in this week's Pittsburgh shooting hated women, but the nation seems not to care much about the rising number of such cases fueled by misogyny, Bob Herbert writes in the New York Times. He recalls the similarly motivated 2006 slayings in an Amish schoolhouse: “There would... More »

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women • United States • domestic violence • Pittsburgh • mass shootings • misogyny • George Sodini

(Newser) - GOP senators may have pooh-poohed Sonia Sotomayor’s “wise Latina” comment, but wise Latinas everywhere are wearing the phrase like a badge of honor, the New York Times reports. From t-shirts to blogs, women of Hispanic heritage have warmed to the phrase much like other minority groups appropriate... More »

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women • justice • Hispanic • US Supreme Court • racial slurs • t-shirts • vernacular • Sonia Sotomayor • women's issues • Wise Latina

Women of the Future: Powerful, Stressed

Women feel overworked amid gains in economic clout

Aug 6, 09 5:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Women are gaining economic clout, but they’re also feeling overburdened, a survey of 12,000 women in 21 countries finds. Women spend some 70% of consumer dollars globally and are set to produce 70% of household income growth in the next 5 years—meaning entrepreneurs who can help them... More »

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women • study • business • power • stress • market • survey • happiness • economy

Domesticated Swedes Make Best Husbands

Brits, Americans land
in top 5 on 'egalitarian index'; Aussies last

Aug 3, 09 6:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Swedish men make the best husbands, while Australian men, preferring beer and sports over housework, rank lowest on an “egalitarian index” outlined in a study of 12 developed nations. Domestic roles carry less stigma in egalitarian societies, one researcher tells the Telegraph, “so the likelihood of forming a... More »

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Australia • women • men • study • marriage • United States • Norway • Oxford University • Sweden • Britain • marriage equality • household chores

 Men Spend a Full Year 
 Ogling Opposite Sex 

Males ogle women for a solid year of their lives, study finds

Aug 3, 09 4:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Men check out 10 women every day, spending an average of 43 minutes with their eyes fixated on a member of the opposite sex—adding up to a full year over a lifetime, researchers tell the Sun. A Kodak Lens Vision study found that the wandering eye is not unique... More »

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women • men • Kodak • sexuality • female sexuality • beautiful women • male sexuality

(Newser) - A humorous glossary, or lexicon of despair? Labels used to describe women's bodies at a certain age "can seem as offensive as teenage behaviour, prompting a need for strict control," Sarah Hampson writes in the Globe & Mail:
  • The Bitch Wrinkle: "Also known as Chapter
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women • body • lexicon

China Reports 13M Abortions Annually

Health officials blame lack of birth control for unmarried women

Jul 30, 09 7:06 AM CDT
(AP) - China performs about 13 million abortions every year, mostly for single young women who experts say know little about contraception, according to a rare disclosure by government health officials. China imposed strict birth controls in the 1970s, limiting most couples to just one child, but the policy tends to overlook... More »

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China • abortion • contraception • women's health • women • sexual health • Chinese officials

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