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Report: Female Detainees in Egypt Forced to Take 'Virginity Tests'
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsWeeks after Egypt's vibrant, youth-led revolution, disturbing details are emerging about the treatment of some young female protesters briefly detained by Egyptian soldiers. Some of the women say they were strip-searched, photographed naked, beaten and forced to undergo "virginity tests" on threat of prostitution charges. At least 18 women were captured and held in military detention after army officers violently cleared Cairo's Tahrir Square on March 9, nearly a month after pro-democracy protesters ousted President Hosni Mubarak from power. After their release days later, several of them ...
International Women's Day: The 5 Worst Countries to Be Born Female
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsOver the years a number of organizations have attempted to list the "worst countries for women," often to coincide with dates such as International Women's Day. One immediate challenge: What makes a country "worst for women"? Some researchers focus on humanitarian issues, others on educational attainment and literacy rates. Then, of course, there are health statistics to consider, as well as cultural biases and economic conditions. And no matter how accurate the underlying data are, numbers can only go so far in telling us what real women experience on a day-to-day basis. Those caveats ...
Women's History Month Hero -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
By not in system - AOL NewsCourtesy of Meg Waite Clayton Meg Waite Clayton wrote "The Wednesday Sisters" and "The Language of Light." The fight for women's suffrage started, as so many things do, with women talking to each other around kitchen tables. The result was the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in July 1848. There, Elizabeth Cady Stanton presented the Document of Sentiments: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal." It was written -- primarily by Stanton -- at a three-legged table now residing at the very respectable Smithsonian. But at the ...
Wisconsin's Fight Against Labor Hurts Women More Than Men
By Joanne Bamberger - Politics DailyI don't want to see a conspiracy where there isn't one, but as some politicians push to cut reproductive and economic rights for women, it's hard not to view other efforts that would disproportionately impact women through that same lens of attack. So when labor statistics suggest that moves to weaken unions at the state and local level would impact women more than men, it's tough not to judge Gov. Scott Walker's (R-Wis.) apparent union-busting crusade as anything other than the latest swipe at American women. Related Stories Overnight Protesters in Wisconsin ...
Susan B. Anthony: 5 Facts About the Legendary Women's Rights Pioneer
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsOn this day in 1820, Susan Brownell Anthony was born in Adams, Mass. The daughter of a Quaker abolitionist, Anthony went on to become a powerful voice for women's rights, a leader in the fight for women's suffrage and an activist in the anti-slavery and temperence movements. Surge Desk has five facts in honor of Anthony's 191st birthday. 1. She began her activism in the temperence movement After fifteen years as a schoolteacher, Anthony immersed herself in the temperence movement. In the late 1840s, after her family had settled in Rochester, she became involved with the Daughters of ...
Delta Sigma Theta Celebrates 98 Years: 5 Famous Women Who Pledged Delta
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsOn this day in 1913, a group of women at Howard University founded Delta Sigma Theta. Now the world's largest African-American sorority, Delta Sigma Theta has over 200,000 college-educated members in 900 chapters worldwide. The founders of Delta Sigma Theta adopted a mission of education and public service that continues today. Since its founding, the sorority has devoted itself to a number of issues, including women's suffrage, civil rights, financial literacy, women's health and international development. As Delta Sigma Theta celebrates its 98th Founders' Day, Surge Desk remembers five ...
Opinion: Empowering Women -- A Path to Prosperity
By not in system - AOL NewsIn many ways 2010 was the year of women in American politics: Female candidates were among the most visible in the midterm congressional elections, and more women became governors than ever before. In our country, women have a prominent voice in the debates that matter: political, economic and social. But in much of the developing world the story is different, as a recent report funded by Britain's Department for International Development makes clear. In these countries, women often lack essential legal and social rights, such as the right to own land or access credit on the same terms as ...
Supreme Court Justice Scalia: Women's Rights Not in Constitution
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailySorry to tell you this, but Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court's conservative stalwart, says the Constitution does not protect women or gay Americans from discrimination. The 14th Amendment to the Constitution -- equal protection under the law -- does not apply to sex discrimination, Scalia said in a recent interview, the Washington Post reports. Fielding a question from California Lawyer magazine, the justice said: "You know, if indeed the current society has come to different views, that's fine. You do not need the Constitution to reflect the wishes of the current society. Certainly, the ...
Report: Iran Could Lift Stoning Sentence Against Woman
By not in system - AOL NewsTEHRAN, Iran -- Authorities reviewing a death by stoning sentence against an Iranian woman convicted of adultery could still halt the punishment, a senior judiciary official said Sunday as Iran struggles to mute an international outcry over the case. The comments, however, offered no clear evidence that Iran's judiciary would commute the sentence against Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, who was taken from prison late Saturday to meet with journalists in another bid by Iran to highlight her purported confession of helping her lover kill her husband. Ashtiani - who has previously appeared on ...
Geraldine Hoff Doyle, Inspiration Behind 'We Can Do It!' Poster, Dead at 86
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe woman whose face inspired the famous "We Can Do It!" poster that became a symbol of female workers during World War II and, later, American feminism has died. Geraldine Hoff Doyle, thought to be the model for the famous poster, died Dec. 26 in Lansing, Mich., of complications from severe arthritis. She was 86 years old. National Archives Doyle was cast as the face of "Rosie the Riveter" in 1942 when a photo of her at work in a Michigan steel factory -- complete with a red polka-dotted bandanna -- was made into a propaganda poster to rally women to the war effort. Years ...
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