RNR for 7/14/01

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June 1 - June 28, 2002

Work and Education

Article: Washington Post Staff Writer. 2002. “Sex Bias Cited in Vocational Ed.” The Washington Post, A08. 6/06/02.
Summary: Pervasive sex segregation persists in high school vocational programs around the country -- including in Maryland and Virginia -- 30 years after Congress passed a law barring such discrimination in education.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2831-2002Jun5.html
Study: National Women's Law Center. 2002. Title IX and Equal Opportunity in Vocational and Technical Education: A Promise Still Owed to the Nation’s Young Women.
Available from: National Women’s Law Center, http://www.nwlc.org/pdf/TitleIXCareerEducationReport.pdf
Price: Free
Keywords: education; gender equity

Article: Associated Press. 2002. “Head Start Program Boosts Toddlers’ Learning, Behavior.” The Wall Street Journal. 6/03/02.
Summary: Toddlers enrolled in a federal program that coaches their parents in learning techniques are less likely to need discipline and more likely to read than children not participating in Early Head Start.
Location: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB102313719557029520.djm,00.html
Study: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. 2002. Making a Difference In The Lives of Infants and Toddlers and Their Families: The Impacts of Early Head Start.
Available from: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/3rdlevel/ehstoc.htm
Price: Free
Keywords: parenting; child development

Article: Jennifer Huget. 2002. “Promoting Cross-Racial Friendships in Schools.” The Washington Post, HE03. 6/11/02.
Summary: A 50-50 split between two races in schools isn’t likely to produce many interracial friendships unless administrators take action to get kids of different races interacting.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27963-2002Jun10.html
Study: James Moody. 2002. Friendship Segregation.
Available from: The American Journal of Sociology, http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJS/
Price: $12.00
Keywords: racial bias; schools

Article: Michael Fletcher. 2002. “Big Gift to Schools Brings Small Gains.” The Washington Post, A02. 6/12/02.
Summary: Billionaire Walter H. Annenberg’s $1.1 billion gift to some of the nation’s most beleaguered schools has helped academic performance improve, but has not resulted in the dramatic gains envisioned when the historic effort to improve American education was launched in 1993.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35086-2002Jun11.html
Study: The Annenberg Challenge. 2002. The Annenberg Challenge: Lessons and Reflections on Public School Reform.
Available from: The Annenberg Challenge, http://www.lessonsandreflections.org/lessons/report
Price: Free
Keywords: funding; schools

Article: The Associated Press. 2002. “Parents Criticize Special Ed Schools.” The New York Times. 6/16/02.
Summary: One in six parents of disabled children has considered suing or has threatened to sue the child’s school district to get services.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Special-Education-Parents.html
Study: Jean Johnson et al. 2002. When it’s Your Child: A Report on Special Education from the Families Who Use It.
Available from: Public Agenda, http://www.publicagenda.org/PDFStore/PDFs/specialed.pdf
Price: Free until 7/10/02, then $10.00
Keywords: education; teaching methods

Article: The Associated Press. 2002. “U.S. Children Get Mixed Report Card in Geography.” USA Today, A1. 6/21/02.
Summary: Only 21 percent of fourth-graders, 30 percent of eight-graders, and 25 percent of 12^th-graders in the US were at or above the “proficient” level in geography last year.
Location: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2002-06-21-geography.htm
Study: A.R. Weiss et al. 2002. The Nation’s Report Card: Geography 2001.
Available from: The US Department of Education, http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2002484
Price: Free
Keywords: students; test scores

Article: Diana Jean Schemo. 2002. “Study Finds Church Schools Racially Segregated.” The New York Times. 6/27/02.
Summary: Private religious schools, particularly Roman Catholic ones, are more racially segregated than public schools.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/27/education/27PRIV.html
Study: Sean Reardon and John Yun. 2002. Private School Racial Enrollments and Segregation.
Available from: The Harvard University Civil Rights Project, http://www.law.harvard.edu/groups/civilrights/publications/privateschools/Private_Schools.pdf
Price: Free
Keywords: racial discrimination; schools

Article: Julia Lawlor. 2002. “In Following a Dream, a Bit of Reality Helps.” The New York Times. 6/23/02.
Summary: Seventy-two percent of unemployed professionals changed industries (but not necessarily professions) in 2001, up from 52 in 1999, while 16 percent went into business for themselves, up from 7 percent three years ago.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/business/yourmoney/23JMAR.html
Study: Drake Beam Morin. 2002. Career Choices and Challenges of People in Transition.
Available from: DBM, http://dbmext.dbm.com/portal/public/dbmnav.nsf/1B103F4A6FAD96DB85256BCF00581F17/$file/Global+White+Paper+2002.pdf
Price: Free
Keywords: business; job security

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Politics and Society

Article: Associated Press. 2002. “Census: Man-Woman Pay Gap Narrows.” The New York Times. 6/05/02.
Summary: Women in the United States earned only 73 cents for every dollar men were paid in 1999, though the gap narrowed during the 1990s.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Census-Wage-Gap.html
Study: Heidi Hartmann et al. 1999. Equal Pay for Working Families.
Available from: Institute for Women's Policy Research, http://www.iwpr.org
Price: $12.00
Keywords: gender comparison; wage gap

Article: The Associated Press. 2002. “Poll: U.S. Security More Important.” The New York Times. 6/11/02.
Summary: Four in five Americans would give up some freedoms to gain security and four in 10 worry terrorists will harm them or their family.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Terrorism-Poll.html
Study: The Gallup Organization. 2002. Which Freedoms Will Americans Trade for Security?
Available from: The Gallup Organization, www.gallup.com
Price: Free
Keywords: public opinion; safety

Article: Jodi Wilgorin. 2002. “At One of the 1000 Front Lines in U.S., Local Officials Try to Prepare for War.” The New York Times. 6/18/02.
Summary: Just 3 percent of mayors said they were satisfied with federal financing for security, and 86 percent said they lacked appropriate equipment to handle an attack.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/19/national/19HOME.html
Study: Cities United for Science Progress. 2002. Homeland Security: Mayors on the Frontline.
Available from: The U.S. Conference of Mayors, http://www.usmayors.org/70thAnnualMeeting/securitysurvey_061302.pdf
Price: Free
Keywords: funding; safety

Article: Charles Lane. 2002. “Right of Second Opinion for HMO Patients Upheld.” Washington Post, A10. 6/21/02.
Summary: The Supreme Court yesterday upheld an Illinois law that guarantees many patients an independent second opinion when an HMO denies them medical benefits. However, many people do not even seek independent review after losing in their health plans’ own internal review processes.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20372-2002Jun20.html
Study: Karen Pollitz et al. 2002. Assessing State External Review Plans.
Available from: The Kaiser Family Foundation, http://www.kff.org/content/2002/3221/externalreviewpart2rev.pdf
Price: Free
Keywords: health insurance; judicial system

Article: Brian Faler. 2002. “The Young and the Restless Don’t Get Out the Vote.” The Washington Post, A05. 6/24/02.
Summary: Young people–18 to 24-year-olds—vote much less often than they did 30 years ago.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33538-2002Jun23.html
Study: Donald P. Green, Alan S. Gerber, David W. Nickerson. 2002. Youth Voter Turnout Has Declined, By Any Measure.
Available from: The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), http://whats_new.civicyouth.org/
Price: Free
Keywords: demographic trends; political participation

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Family Life

Article: Associated Press. 2002. “Feds Study Grandparents As Caregivers.” The New York Times. 6/04/02.
Summary: Nationally, about one in 10 children is raised by a grandparent, but that number is about one in six in Oklahoma. As the child suffers, so do the grandparents, who have had to postpone or cancel lifelong plans and take on responsibilities that burden their tiring bodies and shrinking savings.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Census-Grandparents.html
Study: U.S. Census Bureau. 2000. Fertility of American Women.
Available from: U.S. Census Bureau, http://www.census.gov/
Price: Free
Keywords: elderly; family composition

Article: Richard Morin. 2002. “The Baby Boy Payoff.” The Washington Post, B05. 6/09/02.
Summary: Fathers not only shower their sons with more attention but also work harder and earn more money after the birth of a boy than they do after the birth of a girl.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15820-2002Jun8.html
Study: Shelly Lundberg and Elaina Rose. 2002. The Effects of Sons and Daughters on Men's Labor Supply and Wages.
Available from: Review of Economics and Statistics. Vol. 84, Issue 1 - May 2002, http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=AFBD889E-2E78-466D-88CF-48D7A1CF63A3&ttype=6&tid=8808
Price: Free
Keywords: gender comparisons; families

Article: Suz Redfearn. 2002. “Marked for Trouble.” The Washington Post, HE01. 6/11/02.
Summary: Adolescents who get tattoos or body piercings are more likely than their undecorated age-mates to have sex, drink excessively, do drugs and even consider suicide.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27975-2002Jun10.html
Study: Sean Carroll. 2002. Tattoos and Body Piercings as Indicators of Adolescent Risk-Taking Behaviors.
Available from: Pediatrics. June 2002. 109 (6), http://www.pediatrics.org/current.shtml#ARTICLE
Price: $5.00
Keywords: adolescents; behavior

Article: Erica Goode. 2002. “Physically Abused Children Recognize the Face of Anger.” The New York Times. 6/18/02.
Summary: Repeatedly exposed to the rage of unpredictable adults, abused children appear to develop an exquisite sensitivity to the emotional signals of anger.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/18/health/children/18ABUS.html
Study: Seth Pollak and Doris Kistler. 2002. Early Experience is Associated With the Development of Categorical Representations for Facial Expressions of Emotion.
Available from: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. June 18, 2002, http://www.pnas.org/
Price: $5.00
Keywords: child development; violence

Article: The Associated Press. 2002. “Group Finds Hazards at Playgrounds.” The New York Times. 6/20/02.
Summary: Many public playgrounds still hold hidden hazards for children despite a decade of gradual safety improvements.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Playground-Safety.html
Study: U.S. Public Interest Research Group and the Consumer Federation of America. 2002. Playing it Safe: The Sixth Nationwide Safety Survey of Public Playgrounds.
Available from: U.S. Public Interest Research Group, http://uspirg.org/uspirg.asp?id2=7219&id3=USPIRG&
Price: Free
Keywords: child safety; prevention

Article: Shankar Vedantum. 2002. “Study: Harm Outweighs Benefits of Spanking.” The Washington Post, A03. 6/26/02.
Summary: Spanking children can make them temporarily more compliant but causes more problems than it cures by raising the risk that children will become aggressive, antisocial and chronically defiant.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A44875-2002Jun25?l
Study: Elizabeth Gershoff. 2002. Corporal Punishment by Parents and Associated Child Behaviors and Experiences: A Meta-Analytic and Theoretical Review.
Available from: The Psychological Bulletin. July 2002,vol. 128, no. 4, http://www.apa.org/journals/bul/currentTOC.html
Price: $158 for a yearly, non-member subscription
Keywords: child development; parenting

Article: Reuters. 2002. “Study Confirms What Women Know – Men Won’t Commit.” The New York Times. 6/26/02.
Summary: One of the biggest reasons that men are delaying marriage is that more couples are choosing to live together before marriage.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/news/news-life-marriage.html
Study: David Popenoe and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead. 2002. The State of Our Unions: 2002, Why Men Won’t Commit: Exploring Young Men’s Attitudes About Sex, Dating and Marriage.
Available from: The National Marriage Project, Rutgers University, http://marriage.rutgers.edu/SOOU2002.pdf
Price: Free
Keywords: marriage; relationships

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Health and Reproductive Issues

Article: Wall Street Journal Staff Reporter. 2002. “Imaging Test Helps Determine Efficacy of Cancer Treatment.” The Wall Street Journal. 6/02/02.
Summary: A relatively simple imaging test can help determine whether breast tumors will respond to chemotherapy. The benefit of such a test is that if doctors know someone is likely to be a poor responder, they can prescribe certain drugs to boost the response.
Location: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1023072133632050560,00.html
Study: Rosa Sciuto et al. 2002. The Regina Elena Cancer Institute in Rome. Prognostic Value of ^99mTc-Sestamibi Washout in Predicting Response of Locally Advanced Breast Cancer to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy.
Available from: Journal of Nuclear Medicine, http://jnm.snmjournals.org/current.shtml#CLINICAL_INVESTIGATIONS
Price: $8
Keywords: cancer, breast; medical treatment

Article: The Associated Press. 2002. “U.S. Caesarean Births Rapidly Rising.” The New York Times. 6/07/02.
Summary: C-sections had dropped in the early 1990s after an outcry that American women were getting too many. But in 1997, they started inching back up again. Last year brought the biggest jump yet, a 7 percent increase.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/health/AP-American-Births.html
Study: Joyce Martin et al. 2002. Births: Preliminary Data for 2001.
Available from: Center for Disease Control, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr50/nvsr50_10.pdf
Price: Free
Keywords: birth; pregnancy

Article: Linda Villarosa. 2002. “Newest Skill for Future Ob-Gyns: Abortion Training.” The New York Times. 6/11/02.
Summary: Though only about half the residency programs in the United States teach ob-gyns in training how to perform abortions, more are adding the training to their programs.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/11/health/womenshealth/11ABOR.html
Study: Rene Almeling et al. 2000. Abortion Training in U.S. Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Programs, 1998.
Available from: Family Planning Perspectives, Vol. 32, No. 6, November/December 2000, http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/journals/3226800.pdf
Price: Free
Keywords: education; abortion

Article: The Associated Press. 2002. “Gene Defects Linked to Breast Cancer.” The New York Times. 6/14/02.
Summary: Gene defects that trigger an extremely rare and deadly childhood disease, Fanconi anemia, may also signal an increased risk of breast cancer.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Fanconi-Breast-Cancer.html
Study: Alan D’Andrea et al. 2002. Biallelic Inactivation of BRCA2 in Fanconi Anemia.
Available from: Science Magazine Online, June 13, 2002. http://www.sciencemag.org/
Price: $9.00
Keywords: cancer, breast; health risks

Article: Vanessa Fuhrmans and Ron Winslow. 2002. “Breast-Cancer Drug Pairing Shows Positive Results in Test.” The Wall Street Journal. 6/17/02.
Summary: Breast-cancer patients taking a mix of two standby chemotherapies can increase their life expectancy by 26%, further evidence that combinations of established drugs can offer new progress in the fight against the deadly disease.
Location: http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1024258980301487840-search,00.html?collection=wsjie/30day&vql-string=%28study%29%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29
Study: Joyce O’Shaughnessy et al. 2002. Superior Survival with Capecitabine Plus Docetaxel Combination Therapy in Anthracycline-Pretreated Patients With Advanced Breast Cancer: Phase III Trial Results.
Available from: The Journal of Clinical Oncology, www.jco.org
Price: $12.00
Keywords: cancer, breast; medical treatment

Article: David Brown. 2002. “Fewer Antibiotics Are Prescribed to Children.” The Washington Post, A01. 6/19/02.
Summary: Antibiotic prescriptions for children fell by 40 percent over the course of the 1990s, reversing an upward trend that had fueled the emergence of hard-to-treat, drug-resistant bacteria.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7717-2002Jun18.html
Study: Linda McCaig et al. 2002. Trends in Antimicrobial Prescribing Rates for Children and Adolescents.
Available from: The Journal of the American Medical Association. June 19, 2002. http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n23/rfull/joc10863.html
Price: Free
Keywords: medical treatment; prescription drugs

Article: The Associated Press. 2002. “Test May Predict Low-Weight Babies.” The New York Times. 6/26/02.
Summary: A blood test early in pregnancy may be able to identify women at risk of having a low-birthweight baby.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Baby-Size.html
Study: Gordon C. S. Smith et al. 2002. Early Pregnancy Origins of Low Birth Weight.
Available from: Nature, June 27, 2002, http://www.nature.com/
Price: $15.00
Keywords: birth; pregnancy

Article: John O’Neil. 2002. “Outcomes: Bolstering Women’s Bones.” The New York Times. 6/25/02.
Summary: Osteoporosis has been linked to the loss of teeth as well as broken hips, but calcium and vitamin D supplements can bolster bone density in the jaws of postmenopausal women, and hormone replacement therapy can increase it even more.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/25/health/womenshealth/25OUTC.html
Study: Roberto Civitelli et al. 2002. Alveolar and Postcranial Bone Density in Postmenopausal Women Receiving Hormone/Estrogen Replacement Therapy.
Available from: The Archives of Internal Medicine, http://archinte.ama-assn.org/issues/current/toc.html
Price: $9.00
Keywords: health, women; osteoporosis

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Poverty and Income

Article: Albert B. Crenshaw. 2002. “Her Next Step? Growing Numbers of American Women Face Retirement Financially Insecure.” The Washington Post, H01. 6/02/02.
Summary: Divorce, childbearing and family demands. Bad advice, discrimination, longer lifespans. Those and a host of other factors conspire to place women at much greater risk of financial trouble in retirement than men -- and may consign millions of them to poverty or near-poverty in their old age.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43267-2002Jun1.html
Study: Lois Shaw and Catherine Hill. 2001. The Gender Gap in Pension Coverage: What Does the Future Hold?
Available from: Institute for Women's Policy Research, http://www.iwpr.org/
Price: Free
Keywords: gender comparisons; retirement

Article: Richard Rothstein. 2002. "When Mothers on Welfare Go to Work." The New York Times. 6/05/02.
Summary: Forcing mothers to work appears to harm adolescents rather than younger children. When welfare recipients get jobs, their teenagers tend not to do as well in school.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/05/education/05LESS.html
Study: Lisa A. Gennetian et al. 2002. How Welfare and Work Policies for Parents Affect Adolescents: A Synthesis of Research.
Available from: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, http://www.mdrc.org/
Price: Free
Keywords: adolescents; welfare

Article: Jeff Madrick. 2002. “A Rise in Child Poverty Rates Is at Risk in U.S..” The New York Times. 6/13/02.
Summary: Overall, the official child poverty rate has fallen to 16 percent, but it is still well above the lows of the late 1960’s and 1970’s, and now, with unemployment up, a rise in child poverty is again at risk.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/13/business/13SCEN.html
Study: Timothy Smeeding and Lee Rainwater. 2002. Comparing Living Standards Across Nations: Real Incomes at the Top, the Bottom, and the Middle.
Available from: The Center for Policy Research at Syracuse University, http://www-cpr.maxwell.syr.edu/faculty/smeeding/papers/livingstandards.pdf
Price: Free
Keywords: children; poverty

Article: The Associated Press. 2002. “Down Payment Obstacle to Owning Home.” The New York Times. 6/16/02.
Summary: Half of America’s low- and moderate-income families see down payments and closing costs as major obstacles to buying a home.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Affordable-Housing.html
Study: Hart and Teeter Research Firms. 2002. Results of the Fannie Mae Foundation Affordable Housing Survey.
Available from: The Fannie Mae Foundation, http://www.fanniemaefoundation.org/news/pr/2002spr/Report061602.pdf
Price: Free
Keywords: home-owners; low income families

Article: Louis Uchitelle. 2002. “After Pausing, Income Gap is Growing Again.” The New York Times. 6/23/02.
Summary: The wages of those men and women in the 90^th percentile, (earning $1,440 a week, on average, today) have risen steadily since the early 1980’s while the wages of those in the middle ($646 a week) and at the low end ($307) have stagnated or lost ground to inflation, despite the temporary break in this pattern during the mid 1990’s.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/business/yourmoney/23VIEW.html
Study: Jared Bernstein et al. 2002. Pulling Apart: A State-by-State Analysis of Income Trends.
Available from: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, http://www.cbpp.org/4-23-02sfp.pdf
Price: Free
Keywords: income distribution; wage gap

Article: Robert Pear. 2002. “Study Finds Top Drugs for Aged Easily Outpace Inflation.” The New York Times. 6/25/02.
Summary: The prices of the 50 drugs most often prescribed for elderly people rose last year at nearly three times the rate of inflation.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/25/national/25DRUG.html
Study: Families USA. 2002. Bitter Pill: The Rising Price of Prescription Drugs for Older Americans.
Available from: Families USA, http://www.familiesusa.org/BitterPillreport.pdf
Price: Free
Keywords: elderly; health care costs

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Of Interest

Article: Barbara Crossette. 2002. “50% of Afghans, the Women, Fight to Assert Their Rights.” New York Times. 6/06/02.
Summary: When Afghanistan's grand council convenes next week to begin creating a new political order, one task will be to name the writers of a new Constitution. There has never been a moment with more promise — or long-term danger — for Afghan women.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/06/international/asia/06WOME.html
Keywords: international comparisons; political participation

Article: Nora Boustany. 2002. “Building Women’s Rights, House by House, in Bangladesh.” The Washington Post. 6/07/02.
Summary: Mufaweza Khan's organization Concerned Women for Family Development, became the building block on which women's empowerment actions and micro-credit projects were launched.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9293-2002Jun6.html
Keywords: international comparisons; political participation

Article: Robert Lipsyte. 2002. “Behind the Scenes, Sexism is Now Subtler.” The New York Times. 6/09/02.
Summary: After the enactment of Title IX, which is celebrating its 30^th birthday, discrimination against female athletes became less obvious.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/09/sports/ncaabasketball/09LIPS.html
Keywords: gender equity; sports

Article: Lisa Belkin. 2002. “A Pull Felt by Dads as Well: Staying Home.” The New York Times. 6/09/02.
Summary: We hear a lot about the women who have cut their work hours, moved their offices home or become stay-at-home parents, women who have made the headlines for reaching the top, then choosing to leave the summit. When men do this, however, we look for another reason.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/09/business/yourmoney/09WCOL.html
Keywords: workforce demographics; parenting

Article: Nancy Hass. 2002. “Hey Dads, Thanks for the Love and Support (and the Credit Card).” The New York Times. 6/16/02.
Summary: Brought up by fathers who were the first generation influenced by the women’s movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s, these daughters were able to take as role models men with careers and a worldly sense of entitlement—and the fathers learned to nurture their daughters’ ambitions.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/16/fashion/16DADD.html
Keywords: families; professional women

Article: New York Times Staff. 2002. “Some Progress for Turkish Women.” The New York Times. 6/19/02.
Summary: As a result of a change in the law this spring, school officials in Turkey are no longer authorized to test girls for virginity. This and other vital changes in recent years represent welcome progress, but the very need for them illustrates how far Turkey still has to go to protect the rights of women and girls.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/19/opinion/19WED2.html
Keywords: gender equity; international comparison

Article: Valerie Strauss and Mike Allen. “Panel Named to Study Title IX.” The Washington Post, A27. 6/28/02.
Summary: The Bush administration announced the creation of a blue-ribbon panel to reevaluate the landmark federal law that changed college athletics by banning sex discrimination in sports programs and providing greater opportunity for women.
Location: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58419-2002Jun27.html
Keywords: gender equity; sports

Article: Larry Rohter. 2002. “Chile Will Privatize a New Span of Its Noted Social Safety Net.” The New York Times. 6/24/02.
Summary: Chile’s nominally Socialist government is relinquishing another part of the social safety net. Its plan will allow the private sector to manage the nation’s unemployment insurance system.
Location: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/24/international/americas/24CHIL.html
Keywords: international comparison; unemployment