President:         Eleanor Smeal
Chair:             Peg Yorkin
Vice President:    Toni Carabillo
Secretary:         Judith Meuli
Treasurer:         Rae Wyman
Coordinator:       Katherine Spillar
Co-Editors:        Eleanor Smeal
                   Jyotsna Sreenivasan
                   Jennifer Jackman

Women Demand No Retreat on Affirmative Action

Responding to the attack on affirmative action by top political leaders, a colaition of leading national women's orgainizations demand that President Clinton and Senate Majority Leader Dole stand behind affirmative action program

Clinic Defense Project Braces for Spring Offenses

To portect New Orleans clinics targeted by fanatical anti-abortion groups, the Feminist Majority Foundation's National Clinic Defense Project is deploying field staff to help recruit and train volunteer clinic defenders.

Newsbriefs

Abortion Training to be required for Ob-Gyns, Chevron Agrees to Record Sex Harassment Settlement, Men PhD Candidates get More Funding, Real Girls for Real Girls, Court Upholds All-Male Military School, RU486 Is Possible Treatment for Ovarian Cancer, Welfare Reform Bill Passes House, Goes to Senate, Take Feminist Action!

Media Analysis: ABC Documentary Undermines Women's Equality

In what might have been the opening volley in the attack against affirmativ action, ABC News aired a prime-time documentary, "Boys and Girls are Different: Men, Women and the Sex Difference".

Rock for Choice Roe v. Wade Anniversary Show

Taking an electric and eclectic stand against anti-abortion violence, Primus, Fishbone, Face to Face, No Doubt, The Geraldine Fibbers, Possum Dixon, Weapon of Choice, and Stone Fox performed in the Feminist Majority's Rock for Choice Roe v. Wade Anniversary Show.

FMF Launches National Center for Women and Policing

More women police, better response to domestic violence are the goals of the new Center.

Women Law Students face Hostile Atmosphere

Women Law Students at the University of Pennsylvania face a hostile atmosphere of harassing comments from male students, and an intimidating first year teaching method that may favor men according to a new study of University of Pennsylvania law students.

Campus Campaign to Create Feminist Leaders

Organized by student interns at the Feminist Majority, and spread upon their return to college campuses, the new campus organizations persue equality between the sexes.

Boys on the Side: A Wonderful Women's Road Film

Not since Thelma and Louise has a film come around which I can wholehearted reccommend to women who do occationally like to see a story dealing with their gender rather than an Arnold or Bruce or Tom flick.

Long Distance Phone Program Offers Advantages

Information about the Feminist Majority's Long Distance Advantage program and how you can help to promote a national feminist agend at no extra cost to you!

How to Stop Hating Your Body and Start Living

When Women Stop Hating their Bodies: Freing Yourself from Food and Weight Obsession -- a new book by Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter.

Women Still Receive Less in Charitable Giving

The gender gap in charitable giving is alive and well.

Packwood: Still No Hearings

Two of the twenty-nine women who have accused Senator Bob Packwood (R-OR) o sexual misconduct held a press conferance on Capitol Hill to demand that the Ethics committee hold public hearings on their accusations.

Global Report:

Feminists Prepare for the Fourth UN World Conferance on Women, No Women Athletes Should Equal No Olympics, Scoreboard of Inequities Featured in New Report, Title IX Under Attack -- Again.