3 on Women

Guide to Womenomics
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/041306WA.shtml
In rich countries, girls now do better at school than boys, more women are
getting university degrees than men are and females are filling most new jobs.
Arguably, women are now the most powerful engine of global growth.

Where Women Build New Lives
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/041306WB.shtml
The story of Magdalene, a two-year residential community in Tennessee for women
with a criminal history of prostitution and drug abuse, contrasts with a
separate story revealing that sex tourism with underage prostitutes is thriving
in the Bible Belt South.

Catharine MacKinnon: Are Women Human?
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/041206WA.shtml
An interview with controversial feminist Catharine MacKinnon about her new book.
The book includes an essay called "Women's September 11" claiming that roughly
the same number of women are murdered by men in the US each year as were killed
in the Twin Towers (between 2,800 and 3,000), and asks why there is no war on
this terror.