News Round Up: March 9, 2010

Economy

A pair of Economix blog posts from the New York Times on the world’s best countries for women and the global gender wage gap

Wyoming Women’s Foundation documents the lack of affordable quality child care throughout their state (Billings Gazette)

New report highlights serious wealth gap for women of color (Feministing)

Politics

India’s Parliament votes to reserve one-third of seats in national and local legislatures for women, first step in many towards a constitutional amendment (Guardian)

Health

NPR on the rising maternal mortality rate in the United States

DC to be first U.S. city to distribute free female condoms (Washington Post)

Women’s Leadership

Globally women are advancing in government leadership but remained stalled in the private sector (Forbes)

A female approach to peacekeeping (New York Times)

International Women’s Day Roundup

World marks International Women’s Day (CNN)

The Global Fund for Women’s Kavita Ramdas on Democracy Now

Women for Women International’s Zainab Salbi on reversing violence and poverty in 10 years (Change.org)

American Jewish World Service’s Ruth Messinger on reasons to be optimistic about women in developing countries (Change.org)