Category: Women
Marchers against domestic violence take to the streets in Lawrence
By Alberto Suris Rumbo News LAWRENCE — As the City of Lawrence continues to grieve over recent deaths linked to domestic violence, this year’s annual “Brides’ March” offered a much-needed opportunity to foster awareness and healing from the crisis of domestic violence. The Brides’ March is a walk held each year in a number of [...]
Walmart to sell products from women-run businesses in developing nations
LatinaLista – Ever since the practice of “micro loans” was made popular in helping women entrepreneurs in developing nations establish their businesses, the products they made didn’t travel far out of their neighborhoods. Yet, with technology, the sophistication of business consortiums pooling aspiring entrepreneurs together and the increasing sense that big businesses must have a social [...]
New campaign strives to make healthy pregnancies and safe births a basic global right
LatinaLista – There is no issue that is borderless or as universal in its appeal than the plight of mothers and their children in developing countries. We saw that during the recent high-profile coverage of the Somali women and children starving to death in refugee camps. Yet, an issue just as important as hunger is pregnancy. [...]
Hispanic Women Bring Beauty Bar to Pensacola
By Joslyn Rosado La Costa Latina PENSACOLA, FL — Beauty, fashion and fitness are brought to Pensacola in the form of a bar by two Hispanic women. Bonnielee Cuevas, Puerto Rican and Dominican, along with sister Jandy Tineo, Dominican, opened Pink Couture Life Headquarters and Beauty Bar in downtown Pensacola on Aug. 2. “I’ve been [...]
White House launches site combatting high rates of date rape and sex assaults against young women
LatinaLista — Today is the 17th anniversary of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The legislation was supposed to empower women, who were victims of violence, to know they didn’t have to tolerate the abuse they were receiving from the men in their lives. Abuse that left them with black eyes, bruises, chipped teeth, broken [...]
Indigent women of Latin America blaze new trails for themselves, their families and countries
LatinaLista — Inequality between women and men still exists in greater degrees in South America than they do anywhere else in the Western Hemisphere. A review of any telenovela makes the disparity between the sexes immediately apparent and underscores how social attitudes towards women in South America lag behind those of the United States. As [...]
New Pew survey shows social media driven by women, Latinos and blacks
LatinaLista — With every natural disaster, juicy celebrity gossip or disruptive political happening, the role of social media takes on greater importance. Yet, there are two other things people do online that overshadow the popularity of social media — send and check email and use search engines. That’s according to the latest study by the [...]
New campaign mobilizes women voters to defend health and economic rights
LatinaLista — Tomorrow, August 26 is Women’s Equality Day. It’s a day when women were granted the right to vote. It’s a day that is mostly remembered with presidential proclamations, news articles, opinion pieces and historical footage showing how women in the 1920s, known as the suffragettes, garnered the right to vote for all women. [...]
University research underscores why media’s increasing sexualization of women should alarm Latinas
LatinaLista – The old media adage “Sex Sells” has never been as true as it is today. Thanks to two researchers from the Dept. of Sociology at State University of New York at Buffalo there is now proof of just how much sex media uses to sell their products. Assistant Professors Erin Hatton and Mary Nell [...]
Chilean jeweler gives back to two countries — with one heart
By Monica Peña La Voz de Austin AUSTIN — Born in Arica, Chile, Teresa Basa and her family received political asylum when she moved to the United States at the age of 20 in 1991. Teresa earned a BA from UC Berkeley and a Masters Degree in California State East Bay. After a seven year [...]
