Sex-Selection
Abortions, Female Infanticides Create Social Problems. [LifeNews.com] A new
study that focuses on the problems of sex-selection abortions and female infanticides has
found that cultures where those practicse occur have bred a surplus of men who will
struggle to find sexual partners and could find themselves marginalized in society. They
say the phenomenon is leading to organized crime and terrorism. In a statement
LifeNews.com obtained, they warn that measures to reduce sex selection and change cultural
attitudes are urgently needed.
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New
Study Sheds Light On Female Prisoners. [RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Czech
Republic] There are more than half a million imprisoned women and girls around the
world, according to the "World Female Imprisonment List," published for the
first time today by the International Center for Prison Studies at King's College in
London. Anton Shelupanov, a research associate at London's King's College who helped
produce the report with its author, UN consultant Roy Walmsley, says one curious fact to
emerge from the report is that two-thirds of the world's imprisoned women are in only four
countries: the United States, China, Russia, and Thailand.
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- Why Women
Still Need Their Own Month and Their Own Colleges. [Collegenews.org] Thirty-three
years ago, a high school teacher named Molly Murphy MacGregor proposed instituting a
women’s history class that would be taught over the course of one semester. A fellow
teacher suggested that the course only required one hour, not an entire term,
“because what have women ever done, anyway?” Fortunately for her students –
and subsequently millions of others across the country – Ms. MacGregor was not
dissuaded. She taught that class to great acclaim and went on several years later to
co-found the National Women’s History Project, which celebrates accomplishments by
women in the arts, science, education and politics. MacGregor’s work culminated in
1987, when the U.S. Congress passed a bipartisan resolution establishing the entire month
of March as National Women’s History Month. Today, lectures, dramatic performances
and interactive programs devoted to women’s history are held throughout March in
schools, libraries, workplaces and other venues around the nation.
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