More of This Week's Top Stories
Answering the Call of Wikipedia with Wiki-Dinners
By Piper J. Klemm
As was widely reported this year, only 13% of Wikipedia's editors are women. Given the way Wikipedia shapes the cultural conversation, I know we need to do better than that.
Combatting Plastic Pollution
by Daniella Dimitrova Russo
In Defense of Libraries;
by Olga Diaz, Escondido City Councilmember
I make no apologies, I love libraries
The Case for Women Business Owners: A female GDP bigger than France
By Sylvia R.J. Scott
As Greece Fails, So Goes Europe. The Next Disaster? The World.
by Margaret Bogenrief
The financial world is wrong. Despite what you've read, heard, or seen, Greece (and the world's financial sky) is falling.
LGBT Health issues Ignored
By Sue LaVaccare, M.A
“The eyebrow goes up and it feels like a judgment when I tell them I am attracted to girls. They look confused.”
Ovarian Cancer Screening Not Effective
A new study shows that screening for ovarian cancer does not prevent deaths and may promote unnecessary surgery.
Marsha Rifkin's mother found out too late that she had ovarian cancer. "She was only 49, a few days away from her 50th birthday," she said.
John Edwards Cheat Sheet: What Are the Facts, and Do They Make Him a Criminal?
by Marian Wang, ProPublica
First, a sex scandal, followed by a messy cover-up and an even messier fessing-up. The sequence has become all but routine in Washington.
China: Detained Rights Lawyer Interrogated about Sex Life
Submitted by Editor on Tue, 05/31/2011 - 08:39The Endless War Bill
By Susan Shaer
Another three-day holiday weekend arrives. Here in the Northeast spring has finally sprung! Throughout the United States workers and students alike enjoy the five federal Monday holidays as well-earned vacation days. Yet these five holidays all have unique meanings, and Memorial Day is especially poignant for many families.
Saudi Woman Arrested for Driving Called a Rosa Parks by Netizens
By Mona Kassem
Inside the Campaign to Release Al-Jazeera English Journalist Dorothy Parvaz
by Kim Barker ProPublica, May 23, 2011
A version of this story was co-published [1] with the Los Angeles Times [2]
Women want to make money too - and this is news?
by Penny Herscher
Women in Prison: Growing Numbers and Increased Inequities
By Erika Kates, Ph.D.
Italy: Where did All the Feminism Go?
By Madelaine Johnson
A Different Kind of March Madness: We Need Women's Issues Covered All Year
by Marcia G. Yerman
As devotees of the hoops followed the ongoing matchups between competing college teams, I had my own March Madness. With the month designated to highlight “Women’s History” and International Women’s Day, those with a story about women’s issues were hoping that this calendar demarcation would help them garner an audience.
Food Deliveries on Motorcycles in Ciudad Juarez
Cross a food bank with a motorcyle gang. These so called women warriors deliver food weekly to struggling families in this border town where about 100 businesses have closed down recently. Just members of the middle class, these women got together to help their neighbours.
Tunisian Bloggers Debate Secularism
by Afef Abrougui photo: Layla Caledoniya
The Rule of Three--Getting more Women at the Table
by Anne Perschel, Psy.D.
