VIDEO: Sharon Bialek the 4th woman to accuse Herman Cain of sexual harassment
Story from The Takeaway. Listen to the above audio for a complete report.Sharon Bialek, a former employee at the National Restaurant Association, became the fourth woman to say Republican Presidential...
View ArticleAmerican midwife discovers challenges of medicine in Haiti
Story from The World. Listen to the above audio for a complete report.Haiti is in desperate need of skilled medical workers, a need exacerbated by last year’s earthquake.Many Americans have volunteered...
View ArticlePennsylvania legislator Louise Bishop, 78, admits to being raped as a child
Story from Here & Now. Listen to the above audio for a complete report.In the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky's sexual assault scandal at Penn State, the Pennsylvania legislator held a public...
View ArticleVIDEO: 3 American students released as American journalist describes beating...
An Egyptian court on Thursday ordered that three Americans students detained in Cairo during the Tahrir Square riots be released, the Associated Press reported.There was no word immediately, however,...
View ArticleHip-hop artist Dessa breaks the mold
Critically-acclaimed musician Dessa is no stranger to the hip-hop scene.A member of the popular Doomtree Collective for hip-hop artists, the Minneapolis native has released three albums featuring her...
View ArticleVIDEO: Egyptian women sues army over forced virginity tests, abuse
Samira Ibrahim, 25, made a seven-hour train ride to Cairo Monday night, to hear the verdict in her case against the Egyptian army.She sued the army and accuses the miliaty of subjecting her to torture...
View ArticleTawakul Karman set to receive Nobel Peace Prize
Tawakul Karman looks like an average Yemeni woman: petite, unimposing, wrapped in a black abiya, with her husband standing nearby.But Karman has a relaxed presence about her. She’s quick-witted and...
View ArticleU.S. teen pregnancies reaching record-low levels
New research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds that fewer U.S. teenage girls are becoming mothers.The birth rate for American teenagers ages 15 to 19 has fallen 6 percent, to...
View ArticleNumber of adults getting married reaches all-time low
New research shows that fewer American adults than ever before are getting married.Statistics from the Pew Research Center, released Wednesday, show 51 percent of adults in the United States are now...
View ArticleIowans struggling with a legacy of never electing women as governor, to...
Just two states have never sent a woman to Congress, nor elected one as governor.But just one of them holds the distinction of being the first place in the nation where voters get to pass judgment on...
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Egyptian court orders military to stop virginity tests of women
An Egyptian court says the military must put a stop to its virginity tests of women it is holding in military custody.The decision comes as a result of a lawsuit filed by Samira Ibrahim, who was...
View ArticleIsrael's secular and moderate majority struggling with ultra-Orthodox minority
There's a deep divide in Israel — and it's not between Israelis and Palestinians.Rather, it's among Israel's Jewish population, between the ultra-Orthodox and the more moderate sects of Judaism.The...
View ArticleSusan G. Komen foundation reverses decision to defund Planned Parenthood
The Susan G. Komen foundation, the breast cancer awareness and fundraising organization responsible for turning baseball bats and and airplanes pink over the years, reversed course Friday, announcing...
View ArticleU.S. military prepares to open more military roles to women
The Pentagon announced new rules this week that will allow women to serve closer to the front lines in the Army and the Marine Corps. They're slated to be implemented later this summer. The changes...
View ArticleResearch shows after divorce, women more likely than men to lose health...
In the rush to divide the property the furniture and child custody in a divorce, a new study shows something else is getting left behind.A new study out of the University of...
View ArticleModerate politicians beat hasty retreat from halls of U.S. Congress
Republican efforts to regain control of the U.S. Senate in November became considerably trickier on Tuesday when Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe, a moderate Republican, announced she would no longer seek...
View ArticleSenate reject Blunt's amendment to repeal contraception mandate
A Senate effort to roll back the Obama administration's birth control mandate floundered on Thursday, 51 votes opposed to 48 votes in favor.The amenment to Senate Bill 1813, a highway bill, authored by...
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More Limbaugh advertisers cut support, while some businesses get caught in...
Rush Limbaugh's incendiary comments about Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke, calling her a slut and implying she was a prostitute, have cost his show more advertisers.According to the Associated...
View ArticleGOP candidates struggle to appeal to women voters
On Tuesday, Mitt Romney won the votes of single and working women in the Ohio GOP primary by a strong margin.About 45 percent of unmarried women voters cast their ballots for Romney, and he won the...
View ArticleIn Russia, women celebrated on International Women's Day
In Moscow on Wednesday, an unusually high number of people were clutching bouquets of flowers.Some were simple; a few tulips clearly already suffering from the freezing temperatures. Others were far...
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