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- Palin pick highlights Clinton's importance to Obama
- Just when it seemed Hillary Clinton had been pushed to the back bench of the presidential campaign, she's being asked to step up her appearances on behalf of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama. The request came in the wake of presidential candidate John McCain's announcement Friday that he had chosen...
- Research articles 2008-09-02
- Polygyny and Christian Marriage in Africa: The Case of Benin
- Abstract: Since the arrival of European missionaries in Africa, there has been charged debate over people's marriage choices. This article outlines the major elements in the academic, theological, and popular discourses on marriage in Africa, focusing on two topics: the conceptual divide between monogamous Christian marriage and African polygyny, and...
- Research articles 2008-09-01
- Electing Congress
- Electing Congress. CQ Press 2008 175 pages $45.00 Paperback JK1976 This compact guide, renamed and updated from the 2000 edition, covers a remarkable amount of material on who elects congress, who gets elected, how campaigns are financed and run, and who designs the...
- Research articles 2008-08-01
- Children's books become ideological battleground in Sweden
- STOCKHOLM AFP — Two new publishing houses for children's books have sparked debate in gender-equal Sweden over their professed aim of instilling the country's open-minded social values in the next generation. "Our goal is for all people, regardless of gender, sexuality, ethnicity or other such things, to have the...
- Research articles 2008-07-30
- Survey: Men, women differ on approach to health care
- Women (58 percent) were more likely than men (47 percent) to find paying for health-care premiums and out-of-pocket costs a challenge, according to a recent insurance-company survey report. However, women (51 percent) are more likely than men (42 percent) to have done some retirement health-care planning, according to the "Benefits...
- Research articles 2008-05-30
- Congress OKs ban on genetic bias
- WASHINGTON -- Congress sent President Bush a bill Thursday forbidding employers and insurance companies from using genetic tests showing people are at risk of developing cancer, heart disease or other ailments to reject their job applications, promotions or health care coverage, or in setting premiums. Bush was expected...
- Research articles 2008-05-02
- Race vs. gender fight could hurt Democratic Party's chance
- Former congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro can make all the personal attacks on Barack Obama she wants, but she should remember that she was chosen to be Walter Mondale's running mate in 1984 because she was a woman. Some might also argue that Mondale's selection was also a way to spice up...
- Research articles 2008-03-17
- Gender enders
- DeAnn Dekuna, a writing instructor at Johns Hopkins University, is the latest in a long line of grammatical idealists trying to eradicate English's gender-specific pronouns. Her alternative is hu (pronounced "huh"). "I think hu is superior to yo," she says, referring to the gender-neutral pronoun born on the nearby mean...
- Research articles 2008-03-01
- Tears at work not recommended
- Sen. Hillary Clinton may or may not have been on the brink of tears in a highly publicized moment on the eve of the New Hampshire primary. And that moment of emotion may or may not have helped her to a come-from-behind win at the polls. ...
- Research articles 2008-01-18
- Privatization, efficiency, gender, development, and inequality—transnational conflicts over access to water and sanitation
- Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace by Vandana Shiva. Boston, MA: South End Press, 2005. Gender, Water, and Development edited by Anne Coles and Tina Wallace. New York: Berg, 2005. Dams and Development: Transnational Struggles for Water and Power by Sanjeev Khagram. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004....
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- Matthew Shepard Foundation: 'If Not Here, Where? If Not Now, When?'
- To: POLITICAL EDITORSContact: Matthew Matassa of Communications Director of Matthew Shepard Foundation, +1-303-830-7400 x14, +1-303-588-2872, Matassa@MatthewShepard.org CASPER, Wyo., Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following release is being issued by the Matthew Shepard Foundation:Judy and Dennis Shepard on Withdrawal of Hate Crimes Legislation:We are truly dismayed to find that Congress now...
- Research articles 2007-12-06
- Japanese parents cannot change registered sex: top court
- TOKYO AFP — Japan's top court has ruled that people cannot change their registered sex if they have children, lawyers said Monday. The Supreme Court rejected a plea by Masami Osako, a 51-year-old born as a biological male who has gender identity disorder, to change her family registry entry...
- Research articles 2007-10-29
- Pilgrim's Pride Corp. in Pittsburg, Texas, Agrees to Pay More Than 5,300 Applicants $1 Million for Hiring Discrimination Based on Gender and Ethnicity
- To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: Diana Petterson or Elizabeth Todd, both of the U.S. Department of Labor, +1-214-767-4776, ext. 222 or 221 PITTSBURG, Texas, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Labors Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs OFCCP today announced that Pilgrims Pride Corp., headquartered in Pittsburg, has entered into...
- Research articles 2007-10-03
- The post-9/11 hijab as icon
- The integration and assimilation of second and third generation Muslims into U.S. society was expected to proceed according to a predictable trajectory noted among previous immigrant groups. The children of the immigrants would shed their parents' religious and cultural markings and become more Americanized, and if a reassertion of a...
- Research articles 2007-09-22
- True confessions of an ex-chauvinist: fodder for your professional reading on women and the military
- IT WAS 5 June 1953. One of the world's great feminists my mother pinned one of the yellow bars on my new uniform. Talk about working outside the home--a single parent, she had done that every day of her life! Talk about women in combat--I watched her knock out an...
- Research articles 2007-09-22
- Study Examines Linkages Between Gender and New Venture Performance
- To: NATIONAL EDITORSContact: John McDowell of U.S.SmallBusinessAdministration, +1-202- 205-6941, john.mcdowell@sba.gov Owners Goals and Expectations May Affect Business DevelopmentWASHINGTON, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gender may be linked to new venture entrepreneurial outcomes, according to the authors of a new study released by the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business...
- Research articles 2007-09-14
- U.S. Army women general officers and their strategies for ascension
- ABSTRACT A dearth of women General Officers exists in the Army. Only 4.3% of Army General Officers are women (U.S. Department of the Army, 2007). A qualitative phenomenological study was conducted using a modified van Kaam method by Moustakas with semi-structured, audio-taped, and transcribed interviews. The study explored the...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Kibris'ta kadin/toplumsal cinsiyet calismalari ve kadin hareketi uzerine bir degerlendirme
- Abstract This article deals with women's movements and studies in Cyprus, focusing on the latest developments in these fields. In Cyprus women's movements, academic women study groups, centres and initiatives have adopted the views of social gender that has been put forward by European Union and United Nations in...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- Church weddings for gays soon a reality in Sweden
- STOCKHOLM AFP — Sweden, already a pioneer in giving same-sex couples the right to adopt children, looks set to allow gays to marry in the Lutheran Church, with plans to introduce a new marriage law in January 2008. If the so-called "gender neutral" marriage legislation is adopted, the Scandinavian...
- Research articles 2007-06-27
- British protests over baby gender testing kit
- LONDON AFP — Right-to-life campaigners warned of a surge in abortions following the release this week of a new DNA testing kit which determines the sex of a baby six weeks into pregnancy, a report said Friday. The Early Gender Test, which went on sale on the Internet to...
- Research articles 2007-05-04
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