Today’s roundup has a mix of older news and a healthy dose of features and commentary on the economy. Sports fans: LPGA updates at the bottom. Happy reading!

The Economy:

BBC’s Katty Kay and ABC’s Claire Shipman say women hold the keys to worldwide economic recovery (Washington Post Opinion):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/10/AR200907...

Interesting views all around today on philanthropy, the economy, health and single motherhood. Happy reading!

Health:

A TIME Magazine article looks at whether abortion coverage could sink a health care reform plan:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1909178,00.html

Amnesty International released a report yesterday calling Peru’s maternal morbidity rate ‘scandalous’ (CNN):
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/09/peru.pregnant.mortality/

A very light day today for women in the news (at least in terms of what is being reported). Happy reading!

Top News:

Uighur women are mounting protests of their own over the disappearance of men during mounting violence in western China (Belfast Telegraph):
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/world/asia/uighur-women-...

Today’s roundup is extensive, due to the long holiday weekend. Happy reading!

An Influential Woman:

The New York Times profiles Michèle A. Flournoy, the highest-ranking woman in the history of the Pentagon:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/04/us/04flournoy.html?em

Economic Security:

The New York Times profiles a program in the city that aims to help homeless people, many of them single women with children, on the path to economic security:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/nyregion/06homeless.html?ref=nyregion

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.

Happy reading!

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/