News Round Up: August 13, 2010

Be sure to check out gender gap story in The Guardian, Newsweek editorial on “Mad Women” in the era of “Mad Men”:

Economy

NBC report highlights Women’s Fund of Mississippi’s efforts to stop predatory lending

Gulf News reports women in Persian Gulf now control 22 percent of the region’s wealth

An organization for South Asian women in Canada says accessible child care is key to lifting new immigrant women and their families (Toronto Star)

Core problem of gender gap is crippling the employment court system in the United Kingdom (The Guardian)

Health

Women are now a majority of medical students at some schools leading to hopes of reducing gender inequities in health (Vancouver Sun)

Newsweek editorial discusses women’s mental health during the era of hit TV series “Mad Men”

Violence

The Afghan woman featured on the controversial cover of TIME this month is being treated by doctors in L.A. (LA Times)

The United Nations tells CNN it aims to make mainstream the truth that wartime rapes are as unacceptable as mass killings

Family, activists decry as forced the murder confession of Iranian woman sentenced to stoning (The Guardian)

Sports

Another sweet import from Canada: Women’s pro hockey (Boston Herald)
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