News Round Up: February 25, 2010

Philanthropy

The Women’s Foundation for a Greater Memphis celebrates a successful cell phone recycling fundraiser (Commercial Appeal)

Harvard Business Review blog on turning young individual givers into philanthropists

Politics

Women were vastly underrepresented at health care summit (CBS)

Legal

France’s National Assembly approves law making psychological violence a crime (New York Times)

Supreme Court to decide if Ledbetter Act applies to firefighter discrimination claim (Ms. Magazine)

Violence

NPR series on campus rape, part 2: failed justice leaves rape victims with nowhere to turn

Economy

Women still trail in skilled trades despite apprenticeship program in Canada (Toronto Sun)

Gender

Gender preference shifting among South Korean parents (New York Times Blog)

Sports

Snowboarder Alexa Loo competes in the Olympics thanks to the creative fundraising of a grocery store chain (New York Times)

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