Scroll down for headlines about the issues that women’s fund work on. New to this edition – Women’s Fund Blog Round Up – a quick digest of what women’s funds are blogging about during the day.
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Women’s Health:
The People’s Weekly World says that for women health reform is about work and wages
http://www.pww.org/article/articleview/16175/ [1]
The Red-Devil, a non-profit in Baltimore, provides financial assistance to women fighting breast cancer say the Baltimore Sun
http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bal-to.hs.reddevil29jun29,0,4089765.s... [2]
Family planning and reproductive health have fallen off the global development radar declares the World Bank in a press release
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22231382~pag... [3]
The Epoch Times discusses female suicide in China
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/18855/ [4]
Women News from the Blogs:
Nicholas Kristof announces a NYT Magazine issue focused on women in the global south
http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/nyt-magazine-issue-on-women/ [5]
Feministing writes about the death of the founder of the first women’s studies program in India
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Feministing/~3/G6-tfi1cSXI/016405.html [6]
Women and the Economy:
Linda Basch says Advancing Women into Financial Leadership Boosts Bottom Line in the Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/linda-basch/advancing-women-into-fina_b_22... [7]
The Chronicle of Philanthropy finds that male nonprofit executives earn 27% more than female leaders
http://philanthropy.com/news/updates/index.php?id=8746 [8]
Women and Violence:
Eve Ensler discusses the UN’s broken promises in the Congo in the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/29/AR200906... [9]
A female reproductive health care provider talks about the recent increase in violence against providers at RH Reality Check
http://rhrealitycheck.org/commonground/2009/06/30/come-together-prevent-... [10]
Women and Politics:
wowOwow blog asks, will the Bush/Cheney presidential ticket be the last all-white-men-ticket?
http://www.wowowow.com/politics/will-bush-cheney-presidential-ticket-be-... [11]
NEW: Women’s Fund Blog Round Up:
African Women’s Development Fund writes about making the world safe for diversity
http://africanwomensdevelopmentfund.blogspot.com/ [12]
Feminist Majority writes about celebrating our foremothers: Jane Jacobs
http://feministcampus.blogspot.com/2009/06/celebrating-our-foremothers-j... [13]
