Women in the Public Sphere
Editor’s Introduction
One Battle After Another. Sophie Bessis.
UNESCO Courier
Unequal: A Global Perspective on Women Under
the Law. Jessica Neuwirth. Ms.
International Holdout. Ellen Chesler. The
American Prospect
Another Pose of Rectitude. George F. Will.
Newsweek
Nordic Women Suffer Gender Gap Least. Jane
Wardell. Associated Press
More Women Are Entering the Global Labour
Force Than Ever Before, But Job Equality and Poverty Reduction Remain
Elusive. International Labour Organization
Women’s Pay: Why the Gap Remains a Chasm.
Aaron Bernstein. Business Week
Employed, Yes—But Precariously. From
Trading Away Our Rights: Women Working in Global Supply Chains. Oxfam
International
Women’s Health Care and Mortality
Editor’s Introduction
Modern Asia’s Anomaly: The Girls Who Don’t
Get Born. Celia W. Dugger. The New York Times
Fighting the Silent Epidemic. World Health
Organization Web site
Women, Inequality, and the Burden of HIV.
Bisola O. Ojikutu, M.D., M.P.H., and Valerie E. Stone, M.D., M.P.H. New
England Journal of Medicine
Working for Women’s Sexual Rights. Barbara
Crossette. The New York Times
Violence Against Women
Editor’s Introduction
Rape as a War Crime. America
Domestic Terror: When Several Soldiers
Killed Their Wives, an Old Problem Was Suddenly News. Catherine Lutz and
Jon Elliston. The Nation
For More Afghan Women, Immolation Is Escape.
Carlotta Gall. The New York Times
Honour Killings: Violence Against Women in
Pakistan. Ahmar Mustikhan. Canadian Dimension
Sex Trafficking and Prostitution
Editor’s Introduction
Regulating the Global Brothel. Leah Platt.
The American Prospect
Long Silent, Oldest Profession Gets Vocal
and Organized. Mireya Navarro with Janon Fisher. The New York Times
The Link Between Prostitution and Sex
Trafficking. U.S. Department of State Bureau of Public Affairs
Of Human Bondage. Tara McKelvey. The
American Prospect
Muslim Women and the East-West Divide
Editor’s Introduction
It’s the Women, Stupid. Pippa Norris and
Ronald Inglehart. Ms.
Faith & Freedom. Jay Tolson. U.S. News &
World Report
A Woman’s Prerogative. Rebecca Mead. The
New Yorker
A Mystery of Misogyny. Barbara Ehrenreich.
The Progressive
The Christian Right and Reproductive Rights
Editor’s Introduction
On Family Planning, U.S. vs. Much of the
World. Howard LaFranchi. The Christian Science Monitor
Christian Soldiers on the March. Jennifer
Block. The Nation
Life Lesson. Andrew Sullivan. The New
Republic
Pharmacies Balk on After-sex Pill and Widen
Fight. Monica Davey and Pam Belluck. The New York Times
Appendix
Gender Gap Rankings. World Economic Forum
Shirin Ebadi—Nobel Lecture. December 10,
2003
Wangari Maathai—Nobel Lecture. December 10,
2004
