Prepare to weep and smile. This week, Women's Enews will host commentaries from brilliant writers on Beijing + Five, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, the war crimes trials at The Hague and the Republican and Democratic national conventions.
Just nine of the U.S. Senators are women, and 13 percent of the House is female. Those numbers are both historically high and shamefully low, say the women. True, opponents and media may dismiss them, but it's lack of money that cripples them.
The Williams sisters' Wimbleton triumph is inspiring, yet the fact remains that women athletes of color still face the double barriers of race and gender when they wish to establish mature careers in sports.
Republicans are holding fire against their favorite targets-immigrants, gay men and toddlers in Head Start-but are letting loose against women. We may want to give Clinton a smack in the head by voting for Bush, but women do so at their own peril.
A woman who was set afire and allowed to burn to death in front of the bustling Mumbai Railway Station is but one gruesome example of the abiding and even increasing violence against women in India where laws are enlightened but people are not.
The state's highest court rejected ballot initiatives similar to those passed in other states that outlawed affirmative action. Ruling unanimously, the court said that voters were entitled to the “full truth” before casting their ballots.
A former prosecutor who worked at the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal, where the first war crimes case focused on rape is in progress, urges that both the Bosnian women who are testifying and those who have remained silent deserve our respect.
New studies indicate that while wage gaps between women and men in entry-level jobs are slight, working mothers are paid 70 cents for every dollar that men receive. For childless women, the gap is 10 cents on the dollar.
