USA Today's Marisol Bello reports on a new social networking site for Latinas to help them "find their voice": "It has become an online plaza where Latinas nationwide, and a few from Canada and Mexico, gather to network, share experiences, trade job information, plug community events and professional efforts, and seek advice on everything from getting a divorce to obtaining a mortgage."
Read More...USA Today's Mimi Hall reports on how some insurers allowed to charge women more for the same policies: "Women's health groups, legal organizations and some female senators are fighting for a host of little-known provisions in the health care legislation being debated in Congress that they say will dramatically improve health care and insurance coverage for women."
Read More...NOW Action Vice President Erin Matson speaks with LA Times about Letterman's inappropriate workplace affairs: "The talk show host's revelation that he had relationships with female employees sparks impassioned discussion about hypocrisy and sex in the workplace."
Read More...Watch NOW President Terry O'Neill on Washington, DC CBS affiliate, WUSA on the Letterman controversy: "The President of the National Organization for Women, Terry O'Neill, said here Monday night that it is possible late night talk show host David Letterman may have violated federal equal employment statutes when he engaged in sexual affairs with female members of his staff."
Read More...Julianne Malveaux's opinion in USA Today on why women need health care reform: " For all we say about caring for women and children, women get the short end of the stick where medical insurance is concerned. Women use the health care system more than men, partly because of their reproductive needs. Yet women are less able to afford care than men because we earn, on average, 77% of what men earn."
Read More...NOW President Terry O'Neill is interviewed by CNN International Reporter Richard Greene in response to the study's new finding: "Support for abortion rights has fallen sharply in the past year, with Americans now split roughly 50-50 between those who back legal access to abortion and those who oppose it, according to a new survey."
Read More...CNN.com's Lisa Respers France interviewed NOW President Terry O'Neill about many people are outraged over Hollywood's support of Roman Polanski: "While several high-profile actors and directors have rallied around Roman Polanski, not everyone in Hollywood believes he should be freed and forgiven."
Read More...NOW President Terry O'Neill was interviewed by New York Times reporter Tina Kelley about a disturbing trend on girl-on-girl bullying: "...news of a 'slut list' at a top-ranked New Jersey high school last week highlighted two disturbing points: the increasingly explicit and sexual nature of the taunts, magnified by the Internet. And, in another twist, the perception that allegations of promiscuity — however fictional — are a badge of honor, a way into the cool group, and not a cause for shame."
Read More...NOW President Terry O'Neill speaks out about the Polanski controversy in a Washington Times article by Jennifer Harper: "The rekindled legal case of film director Roman Polanski has set off a noisy culture war, pitting Hollywood values against traditional American decency, feminists, international officials and the proverbial long arm of law."
Read More...The New York Times published an editorial arguing that: "In a rational system of medical care, there would be virtually no restrictions on financing abortions."
Read More...Donna St. George writes in The Washington Post: "A first census snapshot of married women who stay home to raise their children shows that the popular obsession with high-achieving professional mothers sidelining careers for family life is largely beside the point."
Read More...The editors of The Washington Post published an editorial arguing that: "Sexual assault on a 13-year-old girl isn't 'a little mistake.'"
Read More..."The women's movement had been in full adrenaline overdrive for almost two decades and federally protected equality had been tantalizingly close when, in 1982, the ERA fell three states short of ratification," writes Kamala Lopez on the Huffington Post.
Read More..."Roman Polanski raped a child. Let's just start right there, because that's the detail that tends to get neglected when we start discussing whether it was fair for the bail-jumping director to be arrested at age 76, after 32 years in 'exile,'" writes Kate Harding for Salon's Broadsheet.
Read More..."Lack of health insurance kills 45,000 American adults a year, according to a new study published in the American Journal of Public Health. . . . Even with health insurance, many Americans are a medical crisis away from bankruptcy," writes Holly Sklar (distributed by McClatchy-Tribune News Service).
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