News for Today

Contributed by Karol Arámbula:

'Watch: Group of young women brutalize 15-year-old girl outside Brooklyn's Prospect Park' (NY Daily News):

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/watch-group-young-woman-brutalize-teen-brooklyn-prospect-park-graphic-video-article-1.1848446

'One in five women want 'designer' vagina: study' (SBS):

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/07/01/one-five-women-want-designer-vagina-study

'Google offers to pay for women minorities to build code skills' (Daily Tech):

http://www.dailytech.com/Google+Offers+to+Pay+for+Women+Minorities+to+Build+Code+Skills/article36129.htm

'Women's appetite for explicit crime fiction is no mystery' (The Guardian):

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jun/30/women-crime-fiction-real-anxieties-metaphorical

'Where are all the women peacekeepers?' (The Week):

http://theweek.com/article/index/263868/where-are-all-the-women-peacekeepers

'Japan finally apologizes to its women' (Bloomberg):

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-06-30/japan-finally-apologizes-to-its-women

'One in four British women think their main role is in home' (The Telegraph):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/10935616/One-in-four-British-women-think-their-main-role-is-in-home.html

'Why there are so many more women at Google I/O this year' (Wired):

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/google-io-women-20-percent/

Contributed by Suyog Shelar

Sex Harassment Is Off-Topic for Egyptian Ramadan  

http://womensenews.org/story/sexual-harassment/140628/sex-harassment-topic-egyptian-ramadan#.U7I7IbG608M    

Ruling on Hobby Lobby Draws Strong Outcry.  

http://womensenews.org/story/in-the-courts/140630/ruling-hobby-lobby-draws-strong-outcry#.U7I7FLG608M    House OKs Peace Corps Abortions; Libyan Activist Slain  

http://womensenews.org/story/cheers-and-jeers/140627/house-oks-peace-corps-abortions-libyan-activist-slain#.U7I7J7G608M  

How the Women of Pakistan Cope With War, Honor Killings and Prejudice  http://womennewsnetwork.net/2014/06/30/women-pakistan-cope/