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General News

European managers perpetuating gender gap (Management Issues 13/6/2006)
Time for rethink on the clitoris (BBC 11/6/2006)
What Do Muslim Women Want? Western Rights, but Not Western Culture (ABC News 7/6/2006)
Top women cheated by pay gap (The Observer 4/6/2006)
Bring our boys home: Women against the war (The Independent 4/6/2006)
Don't despair. Some women pick partners for love not money (The Independent 28/5/2006)
Women at war: Mental health toll unknown (CNN 26/5/2006)
Ex-wives win key divorce rulings (BBC 24/5/2006)
Girls from broken homes 'less attractive', a study suggests (BBC Health 24/5/2006)
New Report: Educating Mothers Saves Children's Lives (Feminist Daily News Wire 23/5/2006)
Single minded: I want your baby (but not you) (The Independent 21/5/2006)
The feminist battling for men's rights (The Guardian 20/5/2006)
Chief of UN Population Fund calls on imams to promote rights of women (UN News Centre 19/5/2006)
Working mums 'healthier than housewives' (BBC 14/5/2006)
Home vs hospital: Where would you rather give birth to your baby? (The Independent 14/5/2006)
More babies born to women over 50 (BBC 8/5/2006)
How old is too old to be a mother? (The Observer 7/5/2006)
How parents' tug-of-war can wreck a child's future (The Observer 7/5/2006)
UNICEF: Breast Milk Does a Baby Good (Washington Post 3/5/2006)
Study reveals gender divide in use of new media (The Guardian 3/5/2006)
Research raises hopes for male birth pill (The Guardian 28/4/2006)
It's 30 years since Shere Hite first alerted men & women to their problem with sex (The Guardian 28/4/2006)
Nappy wars: Disposables may be eco worry but helped free up women's time (BBC 27/4/2006)
Sigourney Weaver urges women to study science (CTV 27/4/2006)
"Breast isn't best" (The Independent 25/4/2006)
Women find domestic chores are 'therapeutic' (The Independent 24/4/2006)
World urged to fight sex slavery (BBC 23/4/2006)
Graduate women 'find more jobs' (BBC 21/4/2006)
Women decide on speed-date in seconds (The Independent 14/4/2006)
Skinny versus curvy: What is the healthiest body shape for women? (The Guardian 13/4/2006)
"Women are still treated more like things than people" (The Guardian 12/4/2006)
Women 'have constant body woes' (BBC 11/4/2006)
IVF: How a generation of women is being denied the chance to give birth (The Independent 10/4/2006)
What I know about men... (The Observer 9/4/2006)
What I know about women... (The Observer 9/4/2006)
Who are you calling a feminist? (The Observer 9/4/2006)
Young Women Face Culture Shock in First Jobs (Women's eNews 7/4/2006)
Women 'outliving men worldwide' (BBC 6/4/2006)
Women are warned that moving in with a man makes them fat (BBC Health 6/4/2006)
Books: A tale of two genders: men choose novels of alienation, while women go for passion (The Guardian 6/4/2006)
What's wrong with being a mother? (The Guardian 5/4/2006)
Women Key to Literacy in the Home (IPS 4/4/2006)
Sex slaves to the market (The Guardian 1/4/2006)
Women say 'casual sex is immoral' (BBC 31/3/2006)
Going steady is better for women, sex survey finds (The Guardian 31/3/2006)
Feminist blogs are booming. But are they just playthings for the rich & well educated? (The Guardian 31/3/2006)
Women warned: cyber groping on the rise (Sydney Morning Herald 29/3/2006)
Women's Groups Speak Up at World Water Forum (Feminist Daily News Wire 23/3/2006)
Where women get real respect (The Observer 19/3/2006)
Clarion Call for a UN Women's Agency to Address Inequity Crisis (AllAfrica 17/3/2006)
The death of a spouse may not affect people quite as severely as thought, US study suggests (BBC 15/3/2006)
Give the UN's Reins to a Woman (Washington Post 15/3/2006)
UN commission urges immediate release of all women, children detained in war (UN News Centre 13/3/2006)
Global gender gap for entrepreneurs (Management Issues 10/3/2006)
Glass ceiling stretches around the world (Management Issues 10/3/2006)
Pregnant women should take more calcium, says study (The Guardian 10/3/2006)
Women's Groups Criticize UN's Commitment to Gender Equality (Feminist Daily News Wire 9/3/2006)
International Women's Day in pictures (Globe & Mail 9/3/2006)
This is your life (if you are a woman) (The Independent 8/3/2006)
In pictures: International Women's Day (BBC 8/3/2006)
Ten women reveal the differing challenges they face in their daily lives (The Independent 8/3/2006)
It's a woman's world (The Independent 8/3/2006)
Women's literature: The next chapter (The Independent 8/3/2006)
UN: Women denied representation, making war on poverty hard to win (The Independent 8/3/2006)
From its Headquarters to its furthest field work, UN marks Women’s Day (UN News Centre 8/3/2006)
At least 1 in 3 women will be beaten, coerced into sex or otherwise abused in her lifetime (The Independent 8/3/2006)
Desperate Feminist Wives: Why wanting equality makes women unhappy (Slate 6/3/2006)
Pope to 'reflect' on roles for women in church (NZ Herald 3/3/2006)
Rape in time of war is not new, but only recently has anyone tried to do anything about it (The Guardian 3/3/2006)
Extra!: Women's History Month (CNN 1/3/2006)
Profiles in Women's History (CNN 1/3/2006)
Women politicians 'making gains' (BBC 28/2/2006)
Empowering women is key to development, Fréchette tells UN Commission (UN News Centre 27/2/2006)
Gains push women to 16.3 pct of world's lawmakers (Reuters 27/2/2006)
UN Envoy Calls for Creation of UN Women's Agency (AllAfrica 26/2/2006)
Peacekeeper sex abuse 'too high' (BBC 24/2/2006)
UN - It’s time for a woman Secretary General (AWC 21/2/2006)
Half the Population, A Fifth of the News (Inter Press Service 15/2/2006)
The thought of spending Valentine's Day alone can drive some folk to irrational extremes (BBC 14/2/2006)
Fashion with a conscience tries Africa for size (The Guardian 7/2/2006)
International Court of Justice elects first woman president (Ireland Online 6/2/2006)
UNICEF hails progress toward ending female genital mutilation (UN News Centre 6/2/2006)
UN official calls for legislation to equalize women’s access to housing (UN News Centre 2/2/2006)
Pope's olive branch to divorcees (The Observer 29/1/2006)
Actress Nicole Kidman becomes Goodwill Ambassador for UN women’s agency (UN News Centre 26/1/2006)
UN report asks governments to improve data collection to better women’s lives (UN News Centre 18/1/2006)
UNICEF urges big boost in services to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission (UN News Centre 30/11/2005)
Few Women in Power in Banking (Feminist Daily News Wire 21/11/2005)
UN Peacekeepers Still Abusing Women, Says Report (Feminist Daily News Wire 20/10/2005)
The United Nations Population Fund Releases 2005 Report on Gender Equality and Poverty Links (Feminist Daily News Wire 13/10/2005)

UK News

June 2006

Women have crucial role to play in reducing high rate of HIV among Africans in the UK (Black Britain 12/6/2006)
UK: Too many have for too long been getting away with rape (The Guardian Comment 12/6/2006)
UK: Labour's leadership handover must include more women, says Harman (The Guardian 12/6/2006)
UK: More than a third of IVF patients paid more than they expected for treatment (The Times 10/6/2006)
High court reserves judgment over a lesbian couple seeking British recognition of their marriage (The Guardian 10/6/2006)
UK Sex case pioneer had to fight the law as well as male 'jokes' (The Times 10/6/2006)
Goodbye to an all-girls institution (BBC 9/6/2006)
Advice on cutting rape sentences is criticised by victims' groups (The Independent 8/6/2006)
New vice squad to tackle airport sex-slave auctions (The Independent 5/6/2006)
Women-only college could admit men (The Observer 4/6/2006)

May 2006

UK Unmarried couples to get new rights (The Guardian 31/5/2006)
UK Home abortions 'hit record high' (BBC 29/5/2006)
UK Teen mums spurred on to exam success (The Observer 28/5/2006)
How we split: It's not just divorcing couples. Now even unmarried partners are heading for the courts (The Independent 28/5/2006)
UK: Cameron woos 'political virgins' (The Independent 28/5/2006)
UK Sexual harassment rife in armed forces (The Guardian 26/5/2006)
NI: 10,000 in 'breast cancer backlog' (BBC 24/5/2006)
Action women at the heart of WI history (The Guardian 24/5/2006)
NHS go-ahead for new breast cancer drugs (The Guardian 23/5/2006)
UK: Female gambling addicts 'on rise' (BBC 23/5/2006)
British Girls Gone Wild: 'Ladette Culture' on the Rise (ABC News 22/5/2006)
Coroner issues baby death warning (BBC Health 21/5/2006)
Anti-abortionists bombard MP with hate mail and death threats (The Independent 21/5/2006)
Film based on British woman's story of domestic violence and prison is riddled with inaccuracies (The Observer 21/5/2006)
Plan to let carers qualify for full state pension (The Guardian 19/5/2006)
First woman to sail 'wrong way' round world returns (The Guardian 19/5/2006)
UK Birth rate increase may reflect Blair policies, says expert (The Guardian 19/5/2006)
Amy Pascal: An untypical leading lady who's taken Sony to the top (The Guardian 19/5/2006)
'New deal' for women on pensions (BBC 18/5/2006)
More babies for early-30s women (BBC 18/5/2006)
The UK's first man to have kids without a female partner (BBC 17/5/2006)
Fire career drive targets women (BBC 16/5/2006)
UK Health services failing depressed mothers (The Guardian 15/5/2006)
Mothers demand breastfeeding law (BBC 15/5/2006)
Postnatal depression care 'poor' (BBC 14/5/2006)
More women should have babies at home, not in hospital, says Health Secretary (The Independent 14/5/2006)
Britain's oldest mother-to-be hits out at critics (The Independent 14/5/2006)
Study finds catalogue of failings at Britain's IVF clinics (The Independent 14/5/2006)
We fight for equality, yet balk at the first death of a woman in action in Iraq (The Guardian 12/5/2006)
Apprentice victor Michelle Dewberry says women don't need to be bolshie to succeed at work (The Guardian 12/5/2006)
Women and minorities first. Cameron shows off his 'babes' list (The Independent 11/5/2006)
City worker claims £11m for sexual discrimination (The Independent 11/5/2006)
Tyneside: £90,000 boost for abuse victims (BBC 9/5/2006)
Evidence-gathering in rape cases in crisis, doctors warn (The Guardian 8/5/2006)
UK: Shortage of foster parents leaves children unsettled (The Independent 8/5/2006)
Nightmare world of suburban sex slaves (The Guardian 8/5/2006)
Sex trafficking op 'rescues 46' (BBC 8/5/2006)
Servicewoman among helicopter crew killed in Basra (The Guardian 8/5/2006)
UK: Anti-abortionist jailed for photo protest (The Independent 8/5/2006)
Carolyn McCall has been appointed chief executive of Guardian Media Group (The Guardian 8/5/2006)
Dora Thewlis: The Lost Suffragette (The Independent 8/5/2006)
Labour apology for all-woman list (BBC 7/5/2006)
Toddlers to help halt teen pregnancies (The Observer 7/5/2006)
The new breed of businesswomen who shunned higher education (The Observer 7/5/2006)
UK Has First Female Foreign Secretary (Feminist Daily News Wire 5/5/2006)
Behind this outcry lurks the image of a haggard witch and her demon child (The Guardian 5/5/2006)
Doctor defends IVF for woman, 63 (BBC 4/5/2006)
Britons put work and fun before babies (The Guardian 2/5/2006)

April 2006

The drugs cost burden for breast cancer patients (BBC Health 28/4/2006)
UK Couples are being warned about seeking fertility treatment abroad (BBC 28/4/2006)
Businesswoman of the Year rejects 'superwoman' tag (The Independent 28/4/2006)
Nurses 'need help over drug-rape' (BBC 26/4/2006)
UK: Move to ban sacking of pregnant women (The Observer 23/4/2006)
Secret filming of UK police reveals officers dismissing rape cases, watching pornography and ignoring calls (The Observer 23/4/2006)
Saving Sarah: How your bone marrow could save a young bride's life (BBC Health 22/4/2006)
National Downshiting Week (The Guardian 22/4/2006)
Three Northern Ireland Companies achieve Top Scores for supporting women (BITC 21/4/2006)
Southampton Woman remortgages home to give excluded girls a second chance (BBC 20/4/2006)
Cameron's drive for women and minority candidates (The Guardian 19/4/2006)
UK: Why nanny is no longer a dirty word (The Guardian 19/4/2006)
Anger at no jail plan for abusers (BBC 12/4/2006)
Woman wins Herceptin court fight (BBC 12/4/2006)
91-yr-old former secret service agent to be given parachute wings, 63 yrs after being denied them because she was a woman (The Guardian 12/4/2006)
Women prisoners are being given support to talk about and tackle their eating disorders (The Guardian 12/4/2006)
Birmingham Rep Theatre gets its first female head (The Guardian 11/4/2006)
Newcastle Study highlights family violence (BBC 10/4/2006)
Rape cautions double over decade (BBC 10/4/2006)
English women lose out in Herceptin's 'postcode lottery' (The Guardian 10/4/2006)
Seven out of 10 absent parents pay maintenance for children (The Guardian 10/4/2006)
Sham marriage law breaches rights (BBC 10/4/2006)
Not only are women often paid less than men, they also seem to be less extravagant in their expenses claims (The Guardian 10/4/2006)
Outrage of war widows who face pension cut (The Independent 10/4/2006)
Cambridgeshire IVF clinic calling for egg donors (BBC 10/4/2006)
The Ladies in the Lords: In a building built for men, where's a baroness to relieve herself? (The Independent 9/4/2006)
Court rules mother must give children to lesbian ex-partner (The Guardian 7/4/2006)
Calendar Girls reveal all again (BBC 7/4/2006)
Helen and Sylvia, the new face of terrorism (The Independent 6/4/2006)
Woman flies to India for hip op (BBC Health 6/4/2006)
JK Rowling rails at fashion's obsession with weight (The Independent 6/4/2006)
Public bodies need to take note of the new gender equality duty (BITC 5/4/2006)
NHS 'putting parents off home births' (The Guardian 5/4/2006)
More women having babies at home (BBC 4/4/2006)
Saturday last week thousands of black women celebrated their sisterhood at ‘In Celebrations of my Sisters’ (The Voice 4/4/2006)
Careers advice for girls 'biased' (BBC Education 3/4/2006)
Black women face a double discrimination at work says TUC and EOC (Black Britain 3/4/2006)
Raped, beaten and helpless: UK's sex slaves (The Observer 2/4/2006)
Women hire private eyes to check on husbands-to-be (The Independent 2/4/2006)
Number of new fathers changing work hours soars (The Guardian 1/4/2006)
Bradford: Surgeon 'could have put breast cancer patients at risk' (The Guardian 1/4/2006)

March 2006

Spot checks on women's pay are scrapped after cash cut (The Guardian 31/3/2006)
The rise of the 'childfree' (BBC 31/3/2006)
Postcode lottery in rape convictions (The Guardian 30/3/2006)
Waitress awarded £124,000 in sexual harassment case (The Independent 30/3/2006)
Lad culture corrupts men as much as it debases women (The Guardian 30/3/2006)
Government plans trials shake-up to boost rape convictions (The Guardian 29/3/2006)
The new pro-lifers: Rise in infertility has given huge boost to the anti-abortion movement (The Guardian 29/3/2006)
Soaring rate of caesarean births linked to legal action fear (The Guardian 28/3/2006)
Anti-abortionists turn sights on schools and hospitals in US-style campaign (The Guardian 27/3/2006)
Mother's Day worries for a parent who adopts from abroad (BBC 24/3/2006)
UK Budget: Women And Work: Schemes aim to narrow gender gap in employment (The Independent 23/3/2006)
Today's ultimate feminists are the chicks in crop tops (The Guardian 23/3/2006)
London 'worst' for pregnant women (BBC 22/3/2006)
UK Budget: Brown cuts VAT on contraceptives (BBC 22/3/2006)
Women rescued in trafficking op (BBC 22/3/2006)
UK young women 'out-drinking men' (BBC 21/3/2006)
NI: Pregnant women 'turning to internet' (BBC 21/3/2006)
Female hair loss treatment hope (BBC Health 21/3/2006)
Menstrual problems are 1 of the 4 most common reasons why women of reproductive age see their GP (BBC 20/3/2006)
Hearing for abortion bid mother (BBC 20/3/2006)
Abortion row at Catholic hospital (BBC Health 20/3/2006)
British couples desperate for children travel to India in search of surrogates (The Guardian 20/3/2006)
Mothers' job prospects are worst of all, new research suggests (The Observer 19/3/2006)
UK: Families and working women likely to be Budget winners (The Independent 19/3/2006)
Mothers sue over gender test that promised 99.9% accuracy (The Guardian 18/3/2006)
Blogger puts guide to abortion online (The Independent 17/3/2006)
L'Oréal buys Body Shop for £652m (The Guardian 17/3/2006)
Anti-rape ads mean well, but making men entirely responsible for sex implies that women are incompetent (The Guardian 16/3/2006)
Now men have a body-image problem (The Independent 16/3/2006)
Dads asking, but failing, to spend more time with their kids (Management Issues 15/3/2006)
Sex consent campaign targets men (BBC 14/3/2006)
Tackling domestic violence - at work (BBC 14/3/2006)
Move to give women carers fair pension deal (The Guardian 14/3/2006)
New Prize for UK's Female-Led Ethical Businesses (Women's eNews 14/3/2006)
Cameron warning to Tories on women MPs (The Guardian 14/3/2006)
Efforts to get children in England eating more healthily are stymied by poor cookery lessons (BBC 14/3/2006)
Sex violence policy has failed - minister (The Guardian 13/3/2006)
School science held back by battle of the sexes (The Independent 13/3/2006)
Judges told: slash jail terms for rapists (The Observer 12/3/2006)
Forced marriage ban lacks support (BBC 12/3/2006)
Women go private to get 'miracle' drug (The Observer 12/3/2006)
Fathers fight for family flexi-time (The Observer 12/3/2006)
Whose embryo is it anyway? (The Guardian 9/3/2006)
Breast milk 'won't halt obesity' (BBC Health 9/3/2006)
Suffragette tea service auctioned for £6,000 (The Guardian 9/3/2006)
Campbell promotes female high-fliers (The Independent 9/3/2006)
How accessories have saved fashion industry (The Independent 9/3/2006)
In the UK, yet more women's weeklies (Media Life 8/3/2006)
UK Government plans anti-rape campaign (The Guardian 8/3/2006)
Drunken sex can be rape (The Sun 8/3/2006)
Only one British female in four calls herself feminist (The Independent 8/3/2006)
Wales: Women 'missing out' on top jobs (BBC 8/3/2006)
Why every woman needs a wife (The Independent 8/3/2006)
Firms' fears over fertility treatment leave (The Independent 8/3/2006)
Ensure consent for sex, men told (BBC 7/3/2006)
Woman loses frozen embryos fight (BBC 7/3/2006)
Behind the baby gap lies a culture of contempt for parenthood (The Guardian 7/3/2006)
WWI aircraftswoman dies aged 107 (BBC 7/3/2006)
Big hitting Smiths head formidable list in battle for Orange prize (The Guardian 7/3/2006)
Can you choose your baby's sex? (The Independent 7/3/2006)
Women need support as well as equal pay (The Guardian 7/3/2006)
Why mothers should be offered caesareans (The Observer 5/3/2006)
Why can't our women artists earn as much as the men? (The Observer 5/53/2006)
Marital rows 'harm heart health' (BBC Health 4/3/2006)
Breast screen treatment concerns (BBC Health 3/3/2006)
VAT 'to be cut on contraceptives' (BBC Health 3/3/2006)
Woman to renew Herceptin battle (BBC Health 3/3/2006)
Asylum Seeking Women speak out in the UK (Black Britain 3/3/2006)
Yummy mummies leave a bad taste for young women (The Guardian 2/3/2006)
Is giving birth becoming a spectator sport? (BBC 1/3/2006)
Hysterectomy inquiry reveals 25-year scandal of silence (The Guardian 1/3/2006)
UK pay gap of black & ethnic minority women has not been addressed, says a campaign group (Black Britain 1/3/2006)

February 2006

Young women told to raise their sights on pay (The Guardian 28/2/2006)
It really won't do to blame women for Britain's pay gap (The Guardian 28/2/2006)
"Breaking the gender barrier" (Management Issues 28/2/2006)
Birthing suit 'could save lives' (BBC Health 28/2/2006)
Wales: Six jailed for sex acts with girl (BBC 28/2/2006)
Marks & Spencer and New Look are both about to launch major maternity wear ranges (The Guardian 28/2/2006)
Car seat for under-10s to be compulsory (The Guardian 28/2/2006)
Employers urged to do more for women (Opportunity Now News 27/2/2006)
Criticism for women's pay report (BBC 27/2/2006)
PM urges progress on UK pay gap (BBC 27/2/2006)
Most cot deaths due to accidental suffocation, says US study (The Guardian 27/2/2006)
St Hilda's students vote to admit men (The Guardian 27/2/2006)
Divorced father brings test case to publicise shared parenting deal (The Guardian 27/2/2006)
Is the on-site creche the key to work/life balance or just another way to tie us to our desks? (The Guardian 27/2/2006)
Why the pay gap never went away (The Observer 26/2/2006)
Teenage girls demand better sex education (The Observer 26/2/2006)
Fertility fears: 'I thought my fibroids had cost me the chance of children' (BBC 26/2/2006)
Want to get on, girls? Marry beneath you (The Observer 26/2/2006)
Cash fears lead to fall in divorce rates (The Observer 26/2/2006)
The eye-watering treatments and cost of female pampering (BBC 25/2/2006)
Temp work 'harms women's health' (BBC Health 25/2/2006)
Sex discrimination at work hits men too (The Guardian 25/2/2006)
L'Oréal plans takeover bid for Roddick's Body Shop empire (The Guardian 24/2/2006)
The lives of Emmeline Pankhurst & daughter Christabel, who helped win women the vote, commemorated (BBC 24/2/2006)
Parents will pay 'up to £43,000' to live near good school (The Guardian 24/2/2006)
Twice as many men as women start civil partnerships (The Guardian 23/2/2006)
Midwives call for epidurals fee (BBC 23/2/2006)
Fall in teenage conception rate (BBC 23/2/2006)
Breast screening 'a life-saver' (BBC Health 22/2/2006)
Councils fund 'panic rooms' for domestic violence victims (The Guardian 22/2/2006)
Victims of domestic abuse helped to stay in their homes by creation of a reinforced 'sanctuary' (The Guardian 22/2/2006)
Men urged to report brothels using trafficked women (The Guardian 22/2/2006)
Births out of wedlock 'pass 40%' (BBC 21/2/2006)
Young men stay home as women go in search of a toyboy (The Times 21/2/2006)
UK: Drive to help young women trafficking victims (BBC 21/2/2006)
Hormone may block premature birth (BBC Health 20/2/2006)
Cancer vigil woman meets minister (BBC Health 20/2/2006)
UK baby shortage will cost £11 billion (The Observer 19/2/2006)
'No woman priest' move defended (BBC 19/2/2006)
Herceptin maker asks for licence (BBC 17/2/2006)
Sally Clark doctor wins GMC case (BBC 17/2/2006)
"Luton Fashion Week" - do catwalk creations filter down to the High Street? (BBC 17/2/2006)
Women 'get more headache drugs' (BBC Health 16/2/2006)
"Abortions at home are safe" (The Guardian 16/2/2006)
£43,056 - the cost of bringing up a child (The Guardian 16/2/2006)
Dean considers blessing gay couples in civil partnerships (The Guardian 16/2/2006)
Nowadays it's marriage that's more likely to bring about equality between men & women (The Guardian Comment 16/2/2006)
Wales: Women losing out in pay league (BBC 15/2/2006)
Woman loses Herceptin court bid (BBC 15/2/2006)
Many student nurses quit courses (BBC Health 15/2/2006)
Three shaken baby deaths to be reviewed (BBC 14/2/2006)
Ladies' toilet for women truckers (BBC 14/2/2006)
More contraceptive advice urged (BBC 13/2/2006)
Wedded bliss 'only lasts a year' (BBC 13/2/2006)
Shaken baby convictions will stand (The Observer 12/2/2006)
Wales: Top midwife's natural births call (BBC 11/2/2006)
One-hour breast implant operations raise concerns (The Guardian 11/2/2006)
A lawyer who stabbed his wife to death has been cleared of murder (BBC 10/2/2006)
Serial snogging puts teens at deadly risk (The Guardian 10/2/2006)
Former swimming coach admits carrying out sexual assaults on young children over a 50-year period (BBC 10/2/2006)
Obesity crisis prompts leading food firms to add health labels (The Guardian 9/2/2006)
Child Support Agency to be replaced (The Guardian 9/2/2006)
English sexual infection rates highest in UK (The Guardian 9/2/2006)
Boom in women-owned businesses (Management Issues 8/2/2006)
UK: Nursery costs soar, charity says (BBC 8/2/2006)
Scotland: Child protection shake-up planned (BBC 8/2/2006)
Why are the highest ranks of arts administration still dominated by men? (The Guardian 7/2/2006)
Compromise over women bishops 'discriminatory' (The Guardian 7/2/2006)
In praise of... family planning (The Guardian Leader 7/2/2006)
Care workers face vetting scheme (BBC 7/2/2006)
Wales: Sex trafficking is 'real problem' (BBC 7/2/2006)
Concern over womb cancer increase (BBC Health 7/2/2006)
Britain defies US with funding to boost safe abortion services (The Guardian 6/2/2006)
Author Zadie Smith has won the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' regional award for best book (BBC 6/2/2006)
Cash woe of breast cancer women (BBC Health 6/2/2006)
New powers to force absent fathers to pay child maintenance (The Guardian 6/2/2006)
Dumping your wife is now as easy as trading your car (The Guardian 6/2/2006)
Woman tells court Herceptin Drug refusal 'a death sentence' (BBC 6/2/2006)
Increasing demand for more black women on public sector boards (Black Britain 6/2/2006)
Legal battle for right to have cancer drug (The Observer 5/2/2006)
Baby rusks contaminated with banned pesticides (The Guardian 4/2/2006)
Chocolate bars to carry 'health warnings' on wrapping (The Guardian 4/2/2006)
Schoolgirl's religious dress case to go before Lords (Education Guardian 3/2/2006)
Free childcare 'reducing choice' - CBI (BBC 3/2/2006)
Cuts and staff shortages put maternity care pledge at risk (The Guardian 3/2/2006)
UK Doctors 'prescribing Herceptin' (BBC 3/2/2006)
UK childhood vaccination programme being extended to protect against disease which causes blood poisoning, meningitis & pneumonia (BBC 3/2/2006)
Chlamydia texts 'speed up help' (BBC Health 2/2/2006)
Sexual health clinics 'cannot meet demand' (The Guardian 2/2/2006)
Elderly couple reunited after council separation (The Guardian 2/2/2006)
Babies given drugs untested on the young (The Guardian 2/2/2006)
Herceptin campaigner in Welsh Assembly protest (The Guardian 1/2/2006)
Women reveal concerns over HRT (BBC Health 1/2/2006)

January 2006

London Business School launches business centre for women (Management Issues 31/1/2006)
Boy, 14, admits raping four girls in park (The Guardian 31/1/2006)
Hospital asks for external inquiry into childbirth deaths (The Guardian 31/1/2006)
Dame Judi heads UK Oscar charge (BBC 31/1/2006)
"Talking about abortion time limits is just a new way of peddling the pro-life position" (The Guardian Comment 31/1/2006)
Scotland: Rape law change plan put forward (BBC 30/1/2006)
Law Lords should set guidelines on the division of assets in high value divorce cases (BBC 30/1/2006)
U-turn on plan to take babies from refugees (The Observer 29/1/2006)
Cancer woman's Herceptin protest (BBC 29/1/2006)
UK: Hewitt against abortion changes (BBC 29/1/2006)
UK: Women demand tougher laws to curb abortions (The Observer 29/1/2006)
New book presents the positive role of Caribbean mothers in the UK (Black Britain 27/1/2006)
UK: Woman sues trust for cancer test blunder (The Guardian 25/1/2006)
Women in the UK need better careers advice (Black Britain 25/1/2006)
One woman's fight to adopt the Romanian orphan she loves (BBC 23/1/2006)
Mother loses abortion 'right to know' case (The Guardian 23/1/2006)
Scotland: Equal pay could raise council tax (BBC 23/1/2006)
Flaming Norah! Is that what men have to go through? (The Observer 22/1/2006)
UK: Calls for smacking ban rejected (BBC 22/1/2006)
Bias against men in the workplace (The Observer 22/1/2006)
Heart disease & diabetes linked to stress in the office: Women five times more likely to have risk factors (The Guardian 20/1/2006)
Why having a baby means lower pay and prospects (The Guardian 20/1/2006)
Oxfam finds women more generous givers than men (The Guardian 20/1/2006)
Judges uphold five-year jail term for wife killer (The Guardian 20/1/2006)
Private firms to chase CSA debts (BBC 18/1/2006)
Four out of five absent fathers pay nothing for children (The Guardian 18/1/2006)
Fathers 4 Justice to end campaign (BBC 18/1/2006)
UK: New law to permit small brothels (BBC 17/1/2006)
Abducted girl repeatedly attacked (BBC 17/1/2006)
Too few' school psychologists (BBC 16/1/2006)
African churches fight allegations of child abuse and violent exorcisms (The Voice 16/1/2006)
Health Trainers against health inequality succeed in Black and Ethnic Minority Communities (Black Britain 5/1/2006)

2005

UK agencies still hiring poorest nations' nurses: Loophole undermining Africa's fight against Aids (The Guardian 20/12/2005)
Legislation making things worse for working women (Management Issues 7/12/2005)
Athletics: Hero Holmes announces retirement (BBC Sport 6/12/2005)
Quarter of British blue-chips have no women on the board (Management Issues 25/11/2005)
Gender equality is 'thin veneer' (BBC 23/11/2005)
Women are being blamed for rape attacks (Black Britain 22/11/2005)
Risk to children from mothers in stressful jobs (The Guardian 21/11/2005)
Black domestic violence victims made aware of support (Black Britain 21/11/2005)
Black and Minority Ethnic communities must come forward to adopt in the UK (Black Britain 08/11/2005)
Half of women want to pack it all for an easier life (Management Issues 3/11/2005)