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<a href="http://www.unifem.org/news_events/story_detail.php?StoryID=896">Governments Need to Ensure Women Do Not Bear the Brunt of the Economic Crisis</a>

Governments need to provide social protection and promote green jobs for women through alternative investments that provide decent employment, such as public-private and community-related partnerships, according to representatives from governments, the United Nations, civil society and academia, who met in New York today to discuss how to respond to the impacts of the economic crisis addressing gender issues.

<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScienceblogsChannelEducation/~3/a6IUVVHEE48/with_love_and_admiration_congr.php">With love and admiration: Congratulations PharmGirl, MD! [Terra Sigillata]</a>

<img alt="stethoscope 200px.jpg" src="http://scienceblogs.com/terrasig/stethoscope%20200px.jpg" width="200" height="309" style="float:right;margin:0 0 20px 20px">Dear PharmGirl,

We wanted to make this note public today because a great many of our blog friends know of your dedication as both a physician, wife, and a mother.

Yesterday you finished an association with an institution where you have been since medical school. From young women with breast cancer to old men in the V.A. Hospital, literally thousands have been touched by your gifts of intelligence and compassion. The recognition from your patients was abundant and we were privy to the personal notes of just how much you have made a difference to families faced with one of the most fearful of diagnoses.

But while closing this chapter, for now, today you embark on a new journey and a new application of your medical training and dedication to relieving human suffering. We understand the magnitude of fortitude and soul-searching you invested to get to this day. It takes great courage to change direction in an academic medical career but we all know this is the right choice for you. In this venue, you will no doubt help thousands, if not millions, with your new knowledge and training.

You are a tremendous inspiration to your daughter of just what a woman can do with enough determination and hard work. And you are a role model for your husband to dig down deep and be the best person and soul mate that he can.

We are thrilled to be taking this exciting journey with you.

Love,
Pharmboy and PharmKid

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<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScienceblogsChannelEducation/~3/NpFW74BIbvM/ask_sciencewomen_revisited_not.php">Ask Sciencewomen revisited: Not giving up this "silly scientist stuff" just because I'm going to have a baby. [Sciencewomen]</a>

<img align="left" alt="swblocks.jpg" src="http://scienceblogs.com/sciencewoman/swblocks.jpg" width="69" height="41">In January 2008, a reader (Serious Scientist) sent me a query about dealing with inlaws who thought she should give up on her scientific career when her baby arrived. They wanted her to go to a baby shower across the country, without her husband, and she was dreading the trip and the questions and judgements that would certainly arrive during the party. I encourage you all to look back into the archives and <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/sciencewoman/2008/01/ask_sciencewoman_not_giving_up.php">read her original letter</a>, and the wonderful advice everyone offered to Serious Scientist.

Serious's letter, even buried back in the archives, has generated a couple of recent comments. Most recently, Katherine commented:

Serious Scientist, I hope you return and let us know how things went :)

In light of that comment, I decided to dig out Serious's email and find out how her story turned out. Below the fold, I'll share her happy ending.

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<a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/1034&format=HTML&aged=0&language=IT&guiLanguage=en">La Commissione intraprende un'azione legale contro l'Italia a motivo di un'età pensionistica che crea discriminazione</a>

IP/09/1034 Bruxelles, 25 giugno 2009 La Commissione intraprende un'azione legale contro l'Italia a motivo di un'età pensionistica che crea discriminazione La Commissione europea ha deciso di adire le vie legali contro l'Italia perché questa non si è adeguata ...

<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/education/8085011.stm">Men 'out-performed at university'</a>

Women are ahead of men in almost every measure of university achievement, according to a report.

<a href="http://cordis.europa.eu/search/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.document&EV_LANG=EN&EV_RCN=30836">KAGIDER EU Days, Istanbul, Turkey</a>

Event date: 2009-06-18 The Women Entrepreneurs Association of Turkey (KAGIDER) will hold the KAGIDER EU Days on 18 and 19 June 2009 in Istanbul, Turkey.

The first day of the conference will focus on the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7); EU policy and civil society support themes will be in the focus on the second day.

The event aims to provide a higher level of awareness and a deeper knowledge of FP7 and EU policies among non-governmental organisations (NGOs), academics and researchers in general, and among women in NGOs, women researchers, and women entrepreneurs in particular.
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2009-05-26

<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScienceblogsChannelEducation/~3/Vf_jxLLaIns/summer_reading_list.php">Summer Reading List [Sciencewomen]</a>

<img align="left" alt="swblocks.jpg" src="http://scienceblogs.com/sciencewoman/swblocks.jpg" width="69" height="41">BrianR at Clastic Detritus <a href="http://clasticdetritus.com/2009/06/09/summer-reading-list/">introduced me to the perfect mem</a>e to wrap a tedious summer afternoon of work...What books are on my summer reading list? First let me say that *love* summer and breaks because I've always associated those times with a chance to do some of the reading that I've never managed to keep up with during the semester. And I don't just mean the teetering pile of journal articles on my file cabinet, but also the teetering pile of books near my bed. I hate paying good money for a book and then letting it sit around for years unread. Plus, with my blogger schtick I feel like I should review some of the blog-relevant books I read. So I'll divide my list into two parts: (1) books I've read and need to blog; (2) books I'm hankering to read. I *know* I won't get through all of either list in the next few months, those journal articles waiting to be read and written will suck me away from the pleasure reading. (Yeah, I'll also be busy blowing bubbles, splashing in the pool, building Duplo towers, and collecting new results in the field and lab.) So without further ado, the optimistic view of my summer book reading and blogging

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<a href="http://www.ilo.org/global/About_the_ILO/Media_and_public_information/Press_releases/lang--en/WCMS_107801/index.htm">Financial crisis could push more girls into child labour, UN agency warns</a>

The financial crisis threatens to push more children – especially girls – into child labour, the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) said in a new report.

<a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/09/863&format=HTML&aged=0&language=IT&guiLanguage=en">Aiuti di Stato: la Commissione adotta gli orientamenti relativi agli aiuti alla formazione e ai lavoratori svantaggiati e disabili</a>

IP /09/863 Bru xelles, 3 giugno 2009 Aiuti di Stato : la Commissione adotta gli orientamenti relativi agli aiuti alla formazione e ai lavoratori svantaggiati e disabili La Commissione europea ha adottato due documenti di orientamento che stabiliscono ...