Ariz. Gov. Wants to Name Peak for Soldier - AP
As hundreds of people gathered Saturday to mourn Pfc. Lori Piestewa, the first U.S. servicewoman killed in the Iraq war, Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano called for the renaming of a prominent landmark and a highway to honor the Hopi Tribe member. ``It's left to us to make sense of her loss and carry on the legacy she left behind,'' Napolitano said to the cheers of about 2,000 mourners at a memorial service in the Tuba City High School gym in this Navajo Reservation community. Napolitano said she would petition the Legislature to rename a mountain known as Squaw Peak to Piestewa Peak, and also to rename the Squaw Peak Freeway after Piestewa. Both are in Phoenix. Piestewa was one of the few American Indian women in the armed forces. Hopi officials said 56 Hopis are serving in the U.S. military, 48 of them in Iraq.

'You're Never One of the Boys' - Chicago Tribune
A former Air Force Academy cadet tells how the school's culture often is hostile to women.

Pakistan Needs To Close Gender Gaps In Education - UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
Aid workers have urged the Pakistan government to close gender gaps in its educational system by encouraging girls' and women's education. Only about half of the country's 140 million people are literate. "We have to help them catch up," UNESCO's director, Ingeborg Breines, told IRIN in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. The theme for Unesco's education week this year is: "All for Girls' Education", in line with the major goals of the Dakar framework of action that aims to eliminate gender disparities in education by 2005.

Income Gap - Equal Pay for Women Still a Dream - SF Chronicle
Yesterday was Equal Pay Day, the date this year when women will catch up to what men earned by Dec. 31 last year. It is also a day of action for many women in California and across America. Through rallies, meetings and other grassroots activities, working women will call on employers and legislators to close the wage gap and give women an equal footing with their male counterparts at the workplace. Judging from trends, it is unlikely today's working woman will achieve equal pay in her lifetime. The rate of progress in closing the wage gap around the country has either stalled or slowed significantly according to AFL-CIO statistics. At the rate of change, working women in California will not achieve equal pay until 2044, when their daughters are near retirement age. We should not have to wait until then.

Netherlands to Offer HIV Test to All Pregnant Women - Reuters
Starting next year, standard screening tests for HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases will be offered to all pregnant women in The Netherlands, the Ministry of Health announced on Friday. The tests will be offered to women at about their twelfth week of pregnancy and will also include screening for such infections as hepatitis B and syphilis. Screening for HIV allows women the opportunity to take antiretroviral drugs and other steps to reduce the risk of passing the virus to her child.

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