Quarter of women suffer domestic violence: CDC
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About a quarter of U.S. women suffer domestic violence, U.S. health officials reported on Thursday, with ongoing health problems that one activist likened to the effects of living in a war zone.
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More than half of women imprisoned in Mexico are convicted for drug-related crimes.
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A third of nurses working alone in the community have been assaulted or harassed since 2005, a survey says.
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Women are underrepresented in public life and face financial penalties for starting a family, a new study has claimed.
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Wendy Wright, senior policy director of Concerned Women for America, said, &quot;When women&#39;s lives are at stake, this is unacceptable.
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Measures to protect female patients from being sexually abused by doctors should be strengthened, a report says.
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Women coping with work-related stress were more vulnerable than men to post 9/11 trauma, according to a University of Illinois at Chicago study.
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Women and girls are being raped, violently abused and humiliated in war zones around the world, but national authorities do little or nothing to punish offenders, Amnesty International reported yesterday.
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About 8,000 women lack permanent shelter. Need is likely to rise as more women return from war.
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Nearly half of girls in some African  countries are raped, an advocacy group said on Thursday in a  report that sharply criticizes existing programs aimed at  curbing violence to help stop the spread of AIDS.
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Nearly half of all U.S. businesses are   run from home, and most companies owned by women are   home-based, according to a government report released on   Wednesday.
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Reported incidents were likely a small percentage of actual problems, group says.
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Women inmates in New Jersey's prisons are twice as likely to be raped and nearly six times more likely to be otherwise sexually abused by other inmates than their male counterparts, according to a new federal study.
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Deaths of Iraqis have soared to 100,000  above normal since the Iraq war mainly due violence and many of  the victims have been women and children, public health experts  from the United States said Thursday.
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Giving birth in poor countries proves fatal for more than half a million women every year, or one every minute, the World Health Organisation said, warning preventable deaths have reached epidemic levels.
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Women with heart problems may need to be treated differently than men, doctors said Monday.
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In the last decade, Bulgaria has begun to acknowledge domestic violence as a major problem.