(AdvanceWomen.org) - As of July 2, 2010, Faye Wattleton has officially stepped down as president of CFAW, after 15 years of leadership. She is proud of CFAW's accomplishments. Using the highest research standards, CFAW has documented women’s priorities, concerns, and the challenges we face, from healthcare reform to domestic violence, to unequal pay, and threats to reproductive rights. Our groundbreaking report, “Progress and Perils”, remains a singular benchmark for women’s status at the beginning of the 21st century.

(Ben Evans, The Associated Press) - WASHINGTON — Dorothy Irene Height, a pioneering voice of the civil rights movement whose activism stretched from the New Deal to the election of President Barack Obama, died Tuesday. She was 98. Height, who marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and led the National Council of Negro Women for 40 years, was known for her determination and grace — as well as her wry humor...(Read more about her amazing life)

(Newswire Services, World Sentinel) - The continued failure of the Senate to ratify the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), which was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 18, 1979, deprives women in the US of the full protection of their rights, Human Rights Watch said.

(Mimi Hall, USA Today) - A new White House Council on Women and Girls is assessing every government agency to see if its programs do enough to benefit women. The first senior adviser on domestic violence and the first ambassador for women's issues around the globe are developing programs to prevent violence again women at home and abroad

(Brian Moore, The New York Post) - Women who took vacations only once in two years were more likely to experience depression, tension, fatigue and marital dissatisfaction than women who took time off at least twice a year, according to a five-year study...

(Reuters) - With the recession, car owners are being more prudent about regularly scheduled car maintenance, and following through on important repairs. One demographic in particular is aggressively improving their "car smarts" - women.

(Jennifer Bollen & Oliver Smiddy, Wall Street Journal) - Women represent just 10% of the 747 Europe-based investment professionals at Europe's 10 biggest firms in the private-equity industry, according to figures from data provider Preqin and the firms themselves.

(Patricia Cohen, The New York Times) - When more than 160 playwrights and producers, most of them female, filed into a Midtown Manhattan theater Monday night, they expected to hear some concrete evidence that women who are authors have a tougher time getting their work staged than men....

(Christian Science Monitor) - Op-Ed: What is striking about the Iranians protesting fraud in the June 10 "election" is the number of women on the front lines. Among all those cheated at the polls, they may feel the most denied.

(Sharon Begley, The Human Condition, Newseek.com) - The stereotype that females lack the innate ability to match males at the highest levels of math lives on. A new study comes as close to burying it as anything yet.