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Las actuales señales indican que la reforma migratoria está lista para re-emerger como una preocupación importante para los legisladores y el público. Esta serie de Women's eNews se asegura de que las ...

There has been an astounding revolution in women's lives over the past 50 years, as expectations were smashed and opportunities opened, says Gail Collins in her new book. An except from

WASHINGTON — In the early 1950s, a coal miner’s daughter from rural Kentucky named Louise McIntosh encountered the shadowy world of illegal abortion. A friend was pregnant, with no prospects for marriage, and Ms. ...

Because of the tremendous work done in the 60s and 70s, my generation can sit around and have conversations about our feelings about abortion. But we need to remember that what matters politically is the RIGHT to have an abortion.

After fighting deportation threats, Francis Barrios can relax and spend Thanksgiving with her husband, an Iraq War veteran. A new federal bill would help many more families of U.S. military members stay together.

As Obama mulls a U.S. troop buildup in Afghanistan, three Afghan women who run social service efforts in their troubled homeland wanted to shift the topic. They prefer talking about schools, jobs, safety and health care.

Sex workers in Canada are challenging the country's ban on activities associated with prostitution, arguing it conflicts with their constitutional rights. Opponents say decriminalization of sex work would increase sex trafficking.

A Saudi academic and a Moroccan politician outline what Arab women need. The list includes more translations of Western research to overcome regional isolation and longer careers. The academic also says women everywhere are facing a

Society has warmed up to women in many ways--but not in every way. Caryl Rivers says women are still shut out of the world of ideas. This month's news of all-male authors in Publishers Weekly's list of top 10 books for 2009 is the tip of the iceberg.

(WOMENSENEWS)--AIDS Accountability International--an independent rating organization--launched a global scorecard on women that analyzed country responses to the specific needs and vulnerabilities of women in the AIDS epidemic, according to a Nov. ...