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Gail Cartmail
Essex, UK
Journalist and co-founder of 'Women's Views on News'
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Yes, I think a lot of people were shocked by the degree to which they criticised home births. They seemed to have no saving graces whatsoever. Btw, we are now on a new site. Just copy and paste www.womensviewsonnews.org and that will take you to it.
Commented Aug 27, 2010 on Doctors accuse women of putting their baby at risk by opting for a home birth at Women's Views on News
Doctors accuse women of putting their baby at risk by opting for a home birth
The UK's Royal College of Midwives has today criticised doctors for downplaying the benefits of home births, following claims by US academics last month that babies born at home are three times more likely to die than if born in hospital. Commenting on the research, the medical journal, the Lan...
New webite - www.womensviewsonnews.org
We have moved to a new website today - www.womensviewsonnews.org - where we will be posting from now on. If you have come to this site through google, please copy and paste the address - www.womensviewsonnews.org - into your browser... Continue reading
Posted Aug 26, 2010 at Women's Views on News
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Widow of London suicide bomber asks for funding decision to be reviewed
The widow of a suicide bomber has urged a court to overturn a decision to refuse her legal aid for representation at the upcoming inquest into the deaths of 52 people in the 7/7 attacks in London, reports the Press... Continue reading
Posted Aug 25, 2010 at Women's Views on News
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More advice for pregnant women - this time, it's take an aspirin
A small dose of aspirin in pregnancy can help prevent high blood pressure complications, expert guidance for the NHS in England and Wales says. High blood pressure in pregnancy is linked to pre-eclampsia - a leading cause of maternal death... Continue reading
Posted Aug 25, 2010 at Women's Views on News
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Ex-Happy Mondays dancer jailed for assaulting ex-girlfriend
Ex-Happy Mondays dancer Bez (real name Mark Berry) has been jailed by a UK court for four weeks for assaulting his ex-girlfriend, Monica Ward, after refusing to obey a community service order. The court heard that an argument broke out... Continue reading
Posted Aug 25, 2010 at Women's Views on News
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No one knows the long term effects of being a child bride, because no one has asked
Before you start reading this story from IRIN, I have to tell you that it's incredibly sad and is likely to make you very angry. It features a Yemeni woman, known only as Badria. Married at 14, she had her... Continue reading
Posted Aug 25, 2010 at Women's Views on News
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Thanks for your comment. I think you'll find that child marriage is legal in saudi arabia and therefore would not constitute the offence of molestation.
Commented Aug 25, 2010 on 12-year-old Saudi girl files for divorce from 80-year-old husband at Women's Views on News
12-year-old Saudi girl files for divorce from 80-year-old husband
Sky news reports that a girl of 12 is fighting to divorce her 80-year-old husband in a landmark test case in Saudi Arabia. The child (because that's what she is) was married to her father's cousin last year against her wishes and those of her mother for bridal money of about £14,500. The girl'...
Nigerian women optimistic about Tenofovir, the ARV drug in a gel
Nigerian women and their counterparts in other African countries have welcomed the promise that Tenofovir, an anti-retroviral drug contained in a microbicide gel, can help protect women who can't negotiate safe sex with their partners against HIV infection (and see... Continue reading
Posted Aug 25, 2010 at Women's Views on News
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US bail bondsman forced woman to perform sexual favours
A South Carolina bail bondsman has been charged with forcing a woman to cook, clean and do sexual favours for him in exchange for getting her out of jail, reports Associated Press via Google. Lexington County Sheriff James Metts said... Continue reading
Posted Aug 25, 2010 at Women's Views on News
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Men want women whose waist measures 70% of her circumference, allegedly
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or so the saying goes. But anthropologist Barnaby Dixson thinks otherwise, according to studentbeans.com. Having studied what the sexes found attractive over different cultures and time periods, Dixson found that the same... Continue reading
Posted Aug 25, 2010 at Women's Views on News
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Woman who put cat in wheelie bin has now been identified
The story about a Coventry woman who was filmed putting a cat in a wheelie bin has made its way to the US, the LA Times reports. Here in the UK, the story has been followed by a number of... Continue reading
Posted Aug 25, 2010 at Women's Views on News
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US attorney general tells Craigslist to remove its adult services section
US Attorney General Martha Coakley wrote yesterday to online advertising site Craiglist, calling on the web site to remove its “adult services” section as state attorneys general nationwide also stepped up the pressure. Coakey said the “harmful role” of the... Continue reading
Posted Aug 25, 2010 at Women's Views on News
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Increasing numbers of women going to football matches
More and more women and ethnic minorities are going to top-level football in England, according to research by Populus. The study found that 19% of fans going to Premier League games in the 2008-09 season were women, and 8% were... Continue reading
Posted Aug 25, 2010 at Women's Views on News
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A record number of women standing in Afghan elections
A record number of women are running in Afghanistan's critical parliamentary elections next month despite many being inundated with threatening phone calls, including death threats from insurgents. Amid ever-rising violence, which some people fear could foster a repeat of last... Continue reading
Posted Aug 25, 2010 at Women's Views on News
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That's a good phrase - a ticking time bomb. I do feel sometimes that I'm due for an explosion! Like you, though, I'm pretty careful - I barely drink (except of course for that one glass of wine a day), I don't smoke and I exercise. I guess we just have to take all these studies with a pinch of salt - obviously not too much!
Commented Aug 24, 2010 on One glass of wine a day can increase the risk of breast cancer at Women's Views on News
One glass of wine a day can increase the risk of breast cancer
According to yet another study, middle-aged women who drink just one glass of wine a day could double their chances of developing a common type of breast cancer, the Daily Mail reports. The US research shows even those who drink just seven units a week - half the recommended safe level - have ...
Thanks Diane for that. Don't know if you've seen the other comment on this story which is a bit critical. What's your response to what they say?
Commented Aug 24, 2010 on Women have the power to make the world a greener place at Women's Views on News
Women have the power to make the world a greener place
How can women help to make the world a greener place? By choosing environmentally friendly products, US entrepreneur Diane MacEachern told the Washington Post. Given that American women spend 85 cents of every dollar in the markeplace, they have a lot of power at their disposal. And it's right ...
Quite. Sometimes you just despair when you read yet another study about what's going to give us breast cancer. If I followed every bit of advice that came out I'd be exhausted.
Commented Aug 24, 2010 on One glass of wine a day can increase the risk of breast cancer at Women's Views on News
One glass of wine a day can increase the risk of breast cancer
According to yet another study, middle-aged women who drink just one glass of wine a day could double their chances of developing a common type of breast cancer, the Daily Mail reports. The US research shows even those who drink just seven units a week - half the recommended safe level - have ...
Bristol Palin now has her nose in the speakers' circuit trough
Bristol Palin is following in her mother's footsteps, at least as far as lucrative public speaking gigs go, says the Politics Daily website. The 19-year-old daughter of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin will earn (?) $14,000 when she speaks at... Continue reading
Posted Aug 24, 2010 at Women's Views on News
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Afghan president says he will not sacrifice women's rights in peace with Taliban
Msmagazine reports that Afghan president Hamid Karzai has said he will not sacrifice women's rights in any peace deal with the Taliban. In an interview aired on ABC news in which he discussed plans to negotiate peace, Karzai reportedly said... Continue reading
Posted Aug 24, 2010 at Women's Views on News
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Oh, wow, I hadn't spotted that. I wonder if Diane MacEarchern might respond to the point you make.
Commented Aug 24, 2010 on Women have the power to make the world a greener place at Women's Views on News
Women have the power to make the world a greener place
How can women help to make the world a greener place? By choosing environmentally friendly products, US entrepreneur Diane MacEachern told the Washington Post. Given that American women spend 85 cents of every dollar in the markeplace, they have a lot of power at their disposal. And it's right ...
Keeping it in the family - in this case, though, it's prostitution
Although this story - about prostitution running in families within an Indian community - is older than we would normally post on WVoN, the topic was so important that we have decided to publish anyway. The community in question is... Continue reading
Posted Aug 24, 2010 at Women's Views on News
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Sam Cam is a mam, again
For those of you who are interested, Samantha Cameron, the wife of the UK prime minister, has just (well, not just as in the last few seconds but you know what I mean) given birth to a baby girl. Downing... Continue reading
Posted Aug 24, 2010 at Women's Views on News
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African women encouraged to preserve the environment and fight poverty
Women from across Africa have gathered in Johannesburg to discuss the role they can play in preserving the environment and fighting poverty. The 4th Women and Environment Conference "Towards a green growth path: Women at the forefront of poverty eradication",... Continue reading
Posted Aug 24, 2010 at Women's Views on News
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Recognition for African women scientists
A passion fruit pathologist, a catfish breeder, and a pigeon pea researcher are among the 60 outstanding women agricultural scientists from 10 African countries who received a fellowship from African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD). The fellowship will... Continue reading
Posted Aug 24, 2010 at Women's Views on News
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Boys expected to narrow the gender gap in today's GCSE results
As thousands of students around the country rip open their GCSE results this morning, the gender debate that has been simmering for the last few years is set to ignite, the Guardian reports. Girls have beaten boys to the top... Continue reading
Posted Aug 24, 2010 at Women's Views on News
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