Friday, January 27, 2012

Women's Views on News

Women's Views on News

Making a (breastfeeding) tit of ourselves?

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Sarah Cheverton WVoN co-editor Alright, quit your noise already, Interpipe. We're owning it. We ran a story from a satire site alleging Newt Gingrich's wife caused the arrest of a breastfeeding woman on the grounds of obscenity. The story was barely up a few hours before we first removed, then corrected it. Yet over 200 [...]

Liverpool women encouraged to “Get Active”

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Summary of story from liverpool.gov.uk, January 26, 2012 A grant of £493,000 from Sport England is set to encourage women in Liverpool to become more active. The three-year programme, to be provided by Liverpool Sport and Outdoor Recreation Service, is aiming to help 3,400 women and will focus on those with children. Programme manager James McGinn [...]

Extravaganza honors supporters of Delaware women’s athletics

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Summary of story from delawareonline, January 26, 2012 The annual Diamond Extravaganza was set up three years ago by Candy Young, Delaware State’s associate athletic director and senior administrator. It aims to recognise those who have contributed to the continued growth of women’s athletics throughout the state. Young knows from experience just how new such [...]

Olympics committee member resigns over deal with Dow Chemical

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Summary of story from Reuters, January 26,  2012 Meredith Alexander, a member of the Committee for a Sustainable London 2012, has resigned on live television in protest at the London 2012 Olympics sponsorship deal reached with Dow Chemical because of its association with the 1984 Bhopal disaster in India. Dow Chemical has been contracted to manufacture [...]

Ireland to debate quotas for women at next election

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Nan Sloane Director, Centre for Women and Democracy  Imagine the scene. Lined up on the platform in front of over 300 women and rather fewer men are the general secretaries of all the major political parties. In an overflow room another 60 people watch on a video link. One by one, each general secretary pledges [...]

Head of faulty breast implant firm arrested

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Summary of story from The Guardian, January 26, 2012 The founder of the French firm that produced the faulty breast implants at the centre of a global health scare (see WVoN coverage)has been arrested in the south of France. Jean-Claude Mas, 72, head of Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), has admitted on French radio he had [...]

House of Lords reject ‘unfair’ charge on single parents

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Summary of story from The Guardian January 26, 2012 The UK's Coalition Government's welfare bill has suffered a sixth defeat as the House of Lords rejected a provision to charge single parents for use of the child support agency (CSA). The proposed charge had been seen as a way of discouraging single parents from using the [...]

Kirchner says she will keep to diplomacy in islands dispute

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Summary of story from AFP, January 26, 2012 Just back at work after medical leave, Argentina's President Cristina Kirchner plunged back into one of her country’s most sensitive and longest-running disputes: the South Atlantic islands Britain has held since 1833, and Buenos Aires considers its own. She accused British Prime Minister David Cameron of portraying Argentina [...]

Cross hair sticker concern at state’s capitol building

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Summary of story from Colombia Daily Tribune, January 25, 2012 Orange stickers with an image of rifle cross hairs have been found on the office nameplates of several female Democratic state senators, prompting an investigation by Missouri Capitol Police, Senate Administrator Jim Howerton said. The stickers were near the doors of all four Democratic women [...]

Too many leaders in the UK voluntary sector are men

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Alison Clarke WVoN co-editor  A report published today about women’s representation in the UK voluntary sector has found that, despite being dominated by women, only 27 per cent of chief executives of major charities are women. “Close to Parity: challenging the voluntary sector to smash the glass ceiling” by Clore Social Fellow Rowena Lewis (pictured), [...]

Saudi campaigner was not killed in car crash

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Summary of story from The Guardian, January 25, 2012 The woman who was reported in some news outlets as having been killed in a car crash in Saudi Arabia has told the Guardian she is alive, and the real victim was an unnamed member of a desert community. Manal al-Sharif, the figurehead of a Saudi [...]

Doin’ it in public: remembering the Woman’s Building

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Rosy Moorhead WVoN features editor  "The past is never totally past. “What we did in the 70s has turned out to be of interest continually… I am still trying, through the work I make, to model an open society where everyone can participate equally and can speak and be heard." That is according to Sheila [...]

Breastfeeding mother allegedly arrested for ‘obscenity’ in Virginia seems to be a fake

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WVoN update, January 26, 2012 We posted a story  yesterday from Weekly World News about a Virginia woman who was allegedly arrested for breastfeeding her one-month-old son near the home of a Republican Presidential hopeful. It said that Callista Gingrich, the wife of the Presidential runner and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, called 911 to [...]