Weekly Feminist News Digest - 10/31/2011 - 11/04/2011
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Top Feminist News - 10/31/2011 - 11/04/2011
Nov 4 2011
Cain Accuser May Be Released from Confidentiality Agreement
The National Restaurant Association will decide today whether to release a former employee from a confidentiality agreement in her sexual harassment complaint against Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment from a confidentiality agreement...
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=13314
Nov 3 2011
Wisconsin Senate Passes Abstinence-Only Bill
Yesterday, the Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate voted 17 to 15, along party lines, to permit schools to teach abstinence-only education...
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=13312
Nov 2 2011
Global Gender Gap Report Released
The World Economic Forum released the annual Global Gender Gap Report 2011 on Tuesday...
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=13310
Nov 1 2011
Herman Cain Accused of Past Sexual Harassment
Past allegations of sexual harassment by Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain have resurfaced, with Cain being accused of having demonstrated suggestive sexual behavior towards at least two former employees during his tenure as CEO of the National Restaurant Association in the 1990s...
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=13308
Oct 31 2011
World Population Reaches 7 billion
The world's population reached 7 billion today...
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=13307
Other Feminist News This Week
Nov 4 2011
Senate Hearing on Women and Arab Spring Includes Discussion of CEDAW
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=13315
Nov 3 2011
Study Finds At-Home HPV Screening Effective
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=13313
Nov 2 2011
Virginia Rometty Named First Female CEO of IBM
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=13311
Nov 1 2011
HHS Ends Grant to Catholic Church for Failure to Make Reproductive Health Referrals
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=13309
Oct 31 2011
Reform in Royal Succession Allows for Gender Equality
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=13306