In the News | 1-15 July 2010 | Girls Action Foundation

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In the News | 1-15 July 2010

Thanks to friends, colleagues and tweeters for their fabulous news links and as ever, to the invaluable news round up from the Women's Funding Network.

HEALTH
HPV vaccine proves effective: Almost complete protection provided against genital warts and lesions causing cervical cancer (Zosia Bielski, Globe & Mail)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/hpv-vaccine-proves-effective/...

Competition Is a Double-Edged Sword for Teenage Girls (ScienceDaily)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100706082200.htm

A fifth of girls 'pregnant by 18' (The Press Association)
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5j8GA7wGacLfWp7kiT...

The New Abortion Providers (Emily Bazelon, New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/magazine/18abortion-t.html?_r=1&ref=ma...

Problems in Ottawa: The Ottawa Hospital cannot ensure trained staff are available to provide critical health care and administer the sexual assault protocol to victims who are taken to Emergency (Dammit Janet!)
http://scathinglywrongrightwingnutz.blogspot.com/2010/07/i-felt-total-de...

Illinois to test every rape kit (Chicago Breaking News)
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/07/pat-quinn-law-illinois-sex-cr...

The Creativity Crisis: For the first time, research shows that American creativity is declining. What went wrong—and how we can fix it (ewsweek)
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/10/the-creativity-crisis.html

Teen health deteriorating, survey shows (Laura Stone, Montreal Gazette)
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Teen+health+deteriorating+survey+s...

Que. turning immigrant kids into smokers: Study (Aaron Derfel, Montreal Gazette)
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/turning+immigrant+kids+into+smoker...

GENDER GAPS
Don’t Write Off Men Just Yet (Nicholas Kristof, New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/22/opinion/22kristof.html?_r=1&hp

The Rejection Gene: One of the reasons entrepreneurship so favors the male sex in early adulthood is because of the relationship of young males to risk and rejection (Chizoba Nnaemeka, MIT Entrepreneurship Review)
http://miter.mit.edu/node/188

Grilling, Guys And The Great Gender Divide (Meghan Casserly, Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/01/grilling-men-women-barbecue-forbes-woma...

Are Technology and Evolution Eliminating Gender Gaps? (Wayne Turmel, BNET)
http://blogs.bnet.com/management/?p=2595&tag=river-1

Venus May Be Rising, but Don't Neglect Mars (Whitney Johnson, Harvard Business Review)
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2010/07/venus_may_be_rising_but_dont_n.html

Women Will Rule the World: Men were the main victims of the recession but the recovery will be female (Jessica Bennett and Jesse Ellison, Newsweek)
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/07/06/women-will-rule-the-world.html

Vatican Declares Ordination of Women a Crime Against Faith (Ms Magazine)
http://www.msmagazine.com/news/uswirestory.asp?ID=12513

Vatican makes attempted ordination of women a grave crime: Revised Catholic rules put female ordination in same category of crime under church law as clerical sex abuse of minors (John Hooper, The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/15/vatican-attempted-ordination...

Businesses owned by minorities, women boomed before recession, census says (Carol Morello, Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/13/AR201007...

The Gender Pay Gap, by State (Catherine Rampell, New York Times)
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/the-gender-pay-gap-by-state...

Novartis Deal to Settle Bias Claims (New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/15/business/15drug.html?_r=1

STEMing the Tide: Can legislation fix America’s science and technology gender gap? (Jesse Ellison, Newsweek)
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/29/steming-the-tide.html

Cheerleading doesn't count as a real sport, judge rules: Universities cannot use competitive cheerleading in their efforts to achieve gender balance in athletics and comply with Title IX, a judge ruled
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2010/0722/Cheerleading-doesn-t-co...

Learning to Be Tough Beneath a Hard Hat (Adriana Gardella, New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/business/smallbusiness/01sbiz.html?src...

African-American women struggle to overcome wealth gap (Paul Adams, BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10497083.stm

Canada’s most wanted: Women - The pitfalls of gender imbalance among peacekeepers (Cathy Gulli, Maclean's)
http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/07/06/canadas-most-wanted-women/

How We're Failing Our Female Veterans (Laura Fitzpatrick, Time)
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2000829,00.html

Los Angeles Group Teaches Respect for Women Through Sports Coaches (VOA News)
http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/american-life/Los-Angeles-Organizat...

Why Educate? 6 Benefits of Girls’ Education (Because I am a Girl)
http://blog.becauseiamagirl.ca/2010/07/02/why-educate-6-benefits-of-girl...

Ms, Miss or Mrs? Amelia Sage argues that titles still retain powerful and bemusing stereotypes (F-Word)
http://www.thefword.org.uk/features/2010/07/my_first_ever_e

VIOLENCE
Multiculturalism muffles ‘honour killing’ criticism (Aruna Papp, Toronto Star)
http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorialopinion/article/835996--multicul...

Media Release - Culturally-Driven Violence Against Women: A growing problem in Canada’s immigrant communities (Aruna Papp)
http://www.fcpp.org/publication.php/3352

Ambrose to community leaders: Be more vocal against violence (CBC News)
http://www.cbc.ca/politics/insidepolitics/2010/07/ambrose-to-community-l...

Women’s minister warns against ‘honour killings’ (Gloria Galloway, Globe & Mail)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/ottawa-notebook/womens-mini...

Most date violence victims are women: Study (Kenneth Jackson, QMI Agency)
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/06/29/14563741.html

No, Sexual Violence Is Not 'Cultural' (Lisa Shannon, New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/opinion/26iht-edshannon.html?scp=8&sq=...

Arab guilty of rape after consensual sex with Jew: A man has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after telling a woman that he was also Jewish (Jo Adetunji and Harriet Sherwood, The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/21/arab-guilty-rape-consensual-...

Law Came Too Late for Some Rape Victims (Kari Lydersen, New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/09/us/09cnckits.html?_r=1&scp=5&sq=women&...

Card that detects date rape drugs coming to Quebec (Andrew Chung, Toronto Star)
http://www.thestar.com/news/quebec/article/838092--card-that-detects-dat...

TALK ABOUT A REVOLUTION
Female Leadership: How to Start a Revolution Without Using Force (Marcia Reynolds, Huffington Post)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marcia-reynolds/women-in-business_b_641807...

Argentina approves landmark gay marriage bill (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE66E1IH20100715

A Web Site That’s Not Afraid to Pick a Fight (Jennifer Mascia, New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/business/media/12jezebel.html?src=busln

Outrage World: How feminist blogs like Jezebel gin up page views by exploiting women's worst tendencies (Emily Gould, Slate)
http://www.slate.com/id/2259434

How Remarkable Women Lead: The happiest and most successful people are those with growth mind-sets (Joanna Barsh, Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/2010/07/08/women-leaders-business-opportunity-forb...

For Younger Women, a Smaller Wage Gap (Catherine Rampell, New York Times)
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/08/for-younger-women-a-smaller...

Equal Rights for Women? Survey Says: Yes, but ... (Victoria Shannon, New York Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/01/world/01iht-poll.html?_r=2&pagewanted=...

U.N. creates new body on women, gender equality (Reuters)
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6614E220100702

Actress Geena Davis talks media, empowerment of women at U.N. ( Liz Yaslik, Brooke Elliott and Richard Roth, CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/06/28/un.geena.davis/index.html

CULTURE
Lilith 2010: Fair enough? Lilith Fair was a rallying point for women in the 1990s. Now the travelling music fest and its founder, Sarah McLachlan, are back, but whether it’s more than just another package tour remains to be seen (Kate Carraway, Eye Weekly)
http://www.eyeweekly.com/music/features/article/97482--lilith-2010-fair-...

The Commodification of Resistance: M.I.A. may write songs about immigrant exploitation and AK-47s, but like all other pop stars, she has become a brand and a product that can be bought (Yaseen Ali, The Varsity.ca)
http://thevarsity.ca/articles/31433

Parents should look at their teens' Facebook profile before attempting sex ed (Montreal Gazette)
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Parents+should+look+their+teens+Fa...

Does the media practise safe and responsible sex? (Shannon Proudfoot, Canwest News Service)
http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Does+media+practise+safe+responsib...

How to avoid a web-induced preteen breakdown (Nicole Baute, Toronto Star)
http://www.parentcentral.ca/parent/newsfeatures/article/837957--how-to-a...

RebELLEs Give Oppression the Boot: New Brunswick gumbooters troupe give feminist education a kick (Marie-Christine Allard, The Dominion)
http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/3549

Lilly’s Blog: On Girls & Solitude – A Girl Alone is Not Lonely
http://www.rachelsimmons.com/2010/07/lillys-blog-on-girls-solitude-a-gir...

NON-PROFIT COMMUNICATION
5 Ways to Turn Email Newsletters into Valuable Customer Insights (Prasad Thammineni, Marketing Trends)
http://smallbiztrends.com/2010/07/5-ways-to-turn-email-newsletters-into-...

Speaking tips: From thoughts to feelings
http://www.ideachampions.com/weblogs/archives/2010/07/real_roi_return_1....

Why Charities Should Be Online Hubs for Their Communities (Peter Panepento, The Chronicle of Philanthropy)
http://philanthropy.com/blogPost/Why-Charities-Should-Be-Online/25321/

INTERNATIONAL
Out of the ruins, a new role for Haitian women (Jacqueline Charles, McClatchy Newspapers)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2012377941_haitiwomen1...

French Parliament Votes To Ban Full Veils (NPR)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128489907&f=1001&sc...

U.S. policy a paper tiger against sex trade in war zones (Nick Schwellenbach and Carol Leonnig, Wasthington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/17/AR201007...

France outlaws psychological violence in attempt to tackle domestic abuse: Law proposed by members of parliament from ruling majority and opposition wins backing of centre-right government (Reuters)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/29/france-outlaws-psychological...

Peace In Afghanistan At What Cost To Its Women? (Quil Lawrence, NPR)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128493070