Latest Story

Landmark Title IX law turns 40 Sport law expert: Women’s athletics still under-resourced

January 27, 2012
By

Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012
By Julie Titone, College of Education

PULLMAN, Wash. – Forty years after gender equity in education became federal law, opportunities for female athletes still don’t match those for males, says a Washington State University expert in sport law.

“If male and female participants were to trade places, would the males be happy with the opportunities and resources they would have?” asked Professor Cathryn Claussen. “When the answer is yes, we’ll know we’ve arrived at the full potential of Title IX.”
Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 states: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.”

Those simple words have proven difficult to implement for financial and cultural reasons. Read More

Hispanic National Bar Association Proudly Announces the Veterans Legal Initiative Program

January 24, 2012
By

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — The Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) is proud to announce the new HNBA Veterans Legal Initiative Program (“Veterans Initiative”), a new effort to provide free legal services to the men and women of the American armed services and their families. Started as part of National President Benny Agosto, Jr.’s “Year of the Advocate”, the Veterans Initiative will organize HNBA members to volunteer at local Departments of Veterans’ Affairs, American Legion posts, and Veterans of Foreign Wars locations, as well as opening their own free legal clinics to offer assistance to veterans who are unable to afford legal services. Read More

 

Planned Parenthood fight: What does it mean for women’s health?

April 9, 2011
By

CBS News
Nothing more, nothing less. by Voice of Reason 2012 April 8, 2011 2:39 PM EDT The conservatives are becoming the ultra-conservative Sharia Law they fear. by freepress6 April 8, 2011 2:13 PM EDT I believe anti-abortion Republicans have blinked.  READ>>

History Revisited: Yale sexual harassment complaint echoes Title IX case from 1970s

April 9, 2011
By

Connecticut Law Tribune
Alice Buttrick, a 2010 graduate of Yale’s Jonathan Edwards College, sat on the board of the school’s Women Center when the “Pre-Season Scouting report” was sent out. She is currently working from Olivarius’ London law office on the Rhodes Project.  READ>>

 

 

Proposals for a new law on domestic violence:

April 9, 2011
By

Hurriyet Daily News
In consequence, the name of the law should be promptly changed to “Protection of Women against Domestic Violence.” Therefore, restrictive and different interpretations excluding women for their marital status, or non-marital for that matter.    READ>>

 

 

California prison reform should start with women

April 6, 2011
By

Timothy P. Silard,Lateefah Simon,an Francisco Chronicle

If we want to fix California’s broken criminal justice system, let’s start by changing our approach to incarcerating and rehabilitating women. That is one of the key proposals offered in March by a panel of law enforcement and social justice leaders on California Attorney General Kamala Harris’ transition team. Here’s why:

California holds the largest number of female prisoners in the country and is home to two of the largest women’s prisons. Focusing on this population, a manageable part of the overall prison population, would have an undeniably big impact.

How we re-enter women into society affects entire families and communities. Roughly three-fourths of the 9,500 women in California’s prisons are mothers – many are single parents. Incarcerated women who are unable to maintain relationships with their children are more likely to become repeat offenders, and children of incarcerated women are far more likely to eventually end up behind bars themselves.To read the complete article, please click here

Call for equal rights for women in Bahamian law

February 23, 2011
By

Caribbean360
NASSAU, Bahamas, Wednesday February 23, 2011 – Minister of Social Services Loretta Butler Turner is championing for equal rights for women to transfer dual citizenship rights to their children and make other legal decision.

“There are some very important, fundamental things we haven’t done, and as long as we continue to sit on it, we will continue to remain where we are,” she said at a recent Bureau of Women’s Affairs forum which engaged non-governmental women’s organizations.To read the complete article, please click here

Japanese women seek right to their own identity

February 13, 2011
By
Japanese women seek right to their own identity

Straits Times Press Feb 13, 2011

TOKYO - FOUR Japanese women will go to court on Monday to challenge a law that now compels almost all females to drop their maiden names and assume their husbands’ surnames when they marry.

The group – plus one of their husbands – want a civil code clause from the late 1800s declared unconstitutional and are seeking financial damages for their emotional distress at the Tokyo District Court. To read the complete article, please click here

Half of women in prison there for drugs

February 13, 2011
By

Tulsa World: GINNIE GRAHAM World Staff Writer

Emily Linville grew up hearing how to illegally call in a drug prescription. It was that knowledge that landed her, a sister and their mother in Tulsa County’s Drug Court at the same time. But only Linville has graduated from Drug Court.

Her sister, Mary Beth Linville, 25, violated program rules and was sent to prison in January to serve four years for prescription drug fraud and bogus checks. To read the complete article, please click here

Divorce on the rise in India, but archaic laws leave women cast aside

February 8, 2011
By

STEPHANIE NOLEN

NEW DELHI— From Monday’s Globe and Mail

The first year of Rajesha Hamar’s married life was peaceful. In the second, her husband began to drink. Then he started to punch and throttle her when they argued. Then he began to sexually assault her, in front of the relatives with whom they shared their one-room home in a Delhi slum.

After 18 months of this, Ms. Hamar fled to her mother’s house with her baby daughter. She left everything behind, including the dowry her family had paid with most of their savings – clothes, dishes, a motorbike, and her gold jewelry.

In the year since she left, Ms. Hamar’s husband has paid her nothing in maintenance and contributed nothing to the care of their child. She keeps her toddler, Sakshi, fed with the $25 a month she earns housecleaning. Her husband, the neighbors tell her, is still drinking and has voiced no remorse for beating her. To read the complete article, please click here

Translate

EnglishFrenchGermanItalianPortugueseRussianSpanish

First

“First female U.S. Attorney General
In 1993, Janet Reno became the first female U.S. Attorney General following her nomination by President Clinton.”

Our Sponsors

womensbusinessbriefs.com.- womensbusinessbriefs.com
womenspoliticalbriefs.com.- womenspoliticalbriefs.com
andersonsinsuranceconsultants.com-

Book Recommendations