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women's rights stories: 62 news summaries

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OBITUARY

Pulitzer Winner
Nan Robertson Dead at 83

She wrote of her own battle with toxic shock syndrome

Oct 15, 09 1:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Nan Robertson died yesterday at 83, apparently of heart disease. Robertson is best known for a vivid recounting of her battle with toxic shock syndrome in the Times Magazine, which netted her the Pulitzer in 1983, and The Girls in the ... More »

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New York Times • women's rights • alcoholism • obituary • reporter • gender equality • Nan Robertson • toxic shock

 Strip Clubs, Lap Dances
Part of Corporate Life in UK 

Report finds widespread use of strip clubs for entertaining is 'threatening equality'

Sep 18, 09 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The sex industry has become a mainstream part of corporate culture in Britain and is damaging workplace equality, a report from a  women's group finds. Researchers found that many firms authorize the use of expense accounts for entertaining clients in lap dancing and strip clubs, and that most strip clubs... More »

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women's rights • sexism • workplace discrimination • strip club • Britain • stripper • sex industry • lap dancing

 Sudan Woman Tried for Pants 
 Gets Fined, Not Flogged 

Lubna Hussein plans appeal to country's constitutional court

Sep 7, 09 9:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Sudanese woman arrested in July for wearing pants has been fined around $200 but will not receive the 40 lashes once threatened, CNN reports. Lubna Hussein, an erstwhile UN worker who resigned in order to waive immunity and challenge her prosecution, says she will not pay the fine and... More »

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Sudan • women's rights • indecency • appeal • pants • constitutionality • verdict • fine • flogging • Lubna Hussein

(Newser) - Afghan women streamed to the ballot boxes five years ago, and in some districts female turnout was even higher than male. But the flood of women voters that delighted aid groups dried up this year, reports the Washington Post, and many of the segregated female polling stations had few if... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • women • women's rights • Afghanistan election

Mali's President Bails
on Women's Rights Law

Protests force him to send it back for review

Aug 27, 09 8:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Mali's president says he won't sign a controversial new law that gives more rights to women, the BBC reports. President Amadou Toumani Toure says he supports the so-called family law, which Muslim leaders have denounced as the devil's work, but is sending it back to parliament for review. "I... More »

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Africa • women's rights • marriage • protests • Muslim • parliament • Mali • Amadou Toumani Toure

 Afghan Elections a 
 Setback for Women 



Low female turnout could mean leaders even less responsive to women

Aug 24, 09 10:17 AM CDT
(AP) - For women, Afghanistan's recent elections appear to have been more of a setback than a step forward. Early reports strongly suggest that voter turnout fell more sharply for women than for men in last week's polls. Election observers blame Taliban attacks, a dearth of female election workers, and the closure... More »

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Afghanistan • Taliban • women • women's rights • polls • voter intimidation • poll workers • Afghanistan election

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

OPINION

 Thank Women for 
 Iran's Revolution 


Jun 23, 09 10:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Americans like to thank Barack Obama or George Bush or even Twitter for Iran’s revolution, but the real movers and shakers are Iran’s women, writes Anne Applebaum in the Washington Post. They’ve spent years organizing and campaigning for equal rights, and their presence in the... More »

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feminism • women • women's rights • Iranian election • Mir Hossein Mousavi • Zahra Rahnavard • Iranian protests • Iranian women • equal rights

OPINION

Obama the Messiah
Twists History

Hovering from on high, he finds fault with US: Krauthammer

Jun 12, 09 8:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - "He's sort of God," a Newsweek writer said of Barack Obama on MSNBC recently, which for Charles Krauthammer is only a mild overstatement of how the president sees himself: "hovering above mere mortals, mere country, to gaze benignly upon the darkling plain beneath him." In his... More »

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Barack Obama • Islam • Muslims • women's rights • Cairo • Muslim women • President Obama

Turkey Loses Milestone Gender Case

Domestic violence ruling marks women's rights breakthrough

Jun 10, 09 8:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Europe’s human rights court has ruled against Turkey in a key gender-discrimination case, holding that the country was too lenient toward a man who attacked his wife and killed his mother-in-law. The case marks the first time the Court of Human Rights has labeled such a case gender discrimination,... More »

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Turkey • women's rights • domestic violence • gender discrimination • European Court of Human Rights • Nahide Opuz

(Newser) - President Obama skillfully made the case for women's rights in the Muslim world during his Cairo speech today with the help of the hijab, or head scarf, writes Tracy Clark-Flory in Salon. "I reject the view of some in the West that a woman who chooses to cover her... More »

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Barack Obama • Middle East • Muslims • women's rights • Egypt • Cairo • speech • President Obama

 'Candid' 
 Laura Bush 
 Tells Her Story 

Met with historians to discuss her little-known legacy

May 24, 09 10:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Shortly before the election last November, Laura Bush sought to shape her somewhat hazy legacy. The former first lady spoke to historians, reporters, and other DC insiders in a 3-hour “legacy lunch,” at which she was called “candid,” “funny,” and “open” as she... More »

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women's rights • Laura Bush • literacy • history • historian • first lady • legacy

Women Candidates Shut Out of Iran's Presidential Race

Council chucks out applications from all 42 female hopefuls

May 21, 09 1:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran's vetting board has once again rejected every female candidate from the nation's upcoming presidential election, Time reports. Women made up almost a tenth of the 475 hopefuls who signed on. The rejection is widely blamed on the Guardian Council's interpretation of a word in Iran's constitution which they have... More »

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Iran • women • women's rights • candidacy • Guardian Council • Iranian politics • Iranian election

Saudi Crackdown Sends Female Gym Rats to Sidelines

Religious leaders say sports are unfeminine

May 14, 09 3:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Though obesity and diabetes are on the rise in Saudi Arabia, officials there are cracking down on women-only sports clubs because they lack licenses—which no government body will actually issue. Leaders say their opposition is based on Islam, but, Caryle Murphy writes for GlobalPost, it stems as much from... More »

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obesity • sports • Islam • Saudi Arabia • diabetes • women's rights • athletics • fitness • Jay-ZTV

 Lavish Wives 
 Deserve a Slap: 
 Saudi Judge 

His comments are met with protest at domestic violence conference

May 11, 09 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Saudi judge says women who spend lavishly on items like designer abayas (black gowns) deserve to be slapped by their husbands, Arab News reports. His comments at a domestic violence conference invoked loud protests from women in the audience. The judge also lamented that "nobody puts even a... More »

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Saudi Arabia • women's rights • sexism • domestic violence • judge

This Mother's Day, She's
Likely at Work

Women take on role
of breadwinner as
4 of 5 lost jobs hit men

May 10, 09 10:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - She's chef, cheerleader, and Florence Nightengale to scraped knees, but with the economy stinking like a previously enjoyed diaper, Mom is more and more often also a family's breadwinner, reports NPR. As male-dominated industries hemorrhage jobs, 14% of working moms are taking second jobs, a survey suggests. The recession has... More »

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layoffs • men • women's rights • recession • working mothers • job market • job • equal pay

Afghanistan Changing 'Legalized Rape' Law

Afghan prez says he hadn't been aware law was on the books

Apr 17, 09 8:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Afghanistan will revise a law that critics say legalizes marital rape, President Hamid Karzai tells CNN. Karzai said he was unaware of the provision, part of a 270-page piece of legislation covering the country's 6 million Shiite Muslims. "Now I have instructed, in consultation with clergy of the country,... More »

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Afghanistan • women's rights • Hamid Karzai • sexual assault • marital rape

(AP) - A group of some 1000 Afghans today swarmed a demonstration of 300 women in Kabul protesting a new conservative marriage law. The women were pelted with small stones as police struggled to keep the two groups apart. The law, passed last month, says a husband can demand sex from his... More »

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Afghanistan • Shiite • law • women's rights • stoning • protesters • marital rape

Saudis to Crack Down After Man Weds 8-Year-Old

Child marriages will be 'regulated'; no evidence they'll be barred

Apr 15, 09 8:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Amid an uproar over an adult man’s marriage to an 8-year-old girl, Saudi Arabia will begin regulating child marriage, the BBC reports. The country’s justice minister wants to end the “arbitrary” process, he said, though he didn’t say such matches would be banned. A court upheld... More »

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Saudi Arabia • women's rights • marriage • children • arranged marriage • forced marriage • dowry • child brides

(Newser) - Pressure from British and German leaders over legalized rape in Afghanistan has pushed President Hamid Karzai to order a review of a law governing Shiites, Reuters reports. Karzai said the Justice Ministry would scrutinize the Shiite Personal Status Law and send it back to parliament if necessary. But he said... More »

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Afghanistan • women's rights • Gordon Brown • Hamid Karzai • rape • domestic violence • sexual assault • Shiite Personal Status Law

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