theguardian: by Kate Hodal — Ministers and academics from France, Ethiopia, Pakistan, Italy, Hungary and UK will vie to succeed Margaret Chan as director general in July 2017 Margaret Chan will step down next summer after a decade at the helm of the World Health Organisation. Photograph: Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters Six […]
theguardian: by Farrah Jarral — Margaret Ann Bulkley spent much of her life dressed as a man so that she could practice medicine – she was not the only one to go to such lengths. As the Medical Women’s Federation prepares to celebrate its centenary, one GP examines how much […]
theguardian: by Abigail Hunt — Women’s economic empowerment are three words being heard more and more in development circles, but there are several misconceptions about it A worker in Bangladesh: many governments assume that faster growth will support gender equality, despite clear evidence to the contrary. Photograph: PR image Women’s […]
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/21 When the US supreme court ruled in favour of same-sex marriage last year, the White House welcomed it with rainbow-coloured lights and many people celebrated by adding a rainbow tint to their Facebook profile. For the authorities in Saudi Arabia, though, this was cause for alarm rather than celebration, alerting them […]
Dawn.com: by Shada Islam — TIM Hunt, an English biochemist who is also a Nobel laureate, told the World Conference of Science Journalists in Seoul that he believed scientists should work in gender-segregated labs. YES, let’s make fun of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sexist praise of his Bangladeshi counterpart, […]
theguardian: by Laura Bates — Marches will always have their place in the fight for equality. But increasingly women around the world are finding innovative methods of making their voices heard. On International Women’s Day, here are a few of them Attention grabbing … Emmeline Pankhurst being arrested in 1910. […]
Patheos.com: It demands no introduction that many people, including Muslims, believe that Islam permits child marriage. As a result, Islam is often dismissed as a highly misogynistic religion by some non-Muslims, […]
theguardian: by Van Badham — The gender pay gap hasn’t moved in a decade. Women are retiring with half the super of men and they still do more housework. Sisters, it’s time to kick ass ‘Early childhood educators have diplomas that are weighted the same as comparable qualifications for male-dominated […]
Huff Post: by JoAnn Kamuf Ward and Hillary Scrivani — Associate Director, Human Rights in the U.S. Project at Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute & Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law SchoolWomen in the United States have strived for, and achieved, equality in many areas, and have some freedoms that […]
Huff Post: by Emily Peck — It’s pretty obvious, but weirdly unacknowledged. President Barack Obama is proposing a cool solution to help close the gender pay gap, but it doesn’t hit at perhaps the biggest problem keeping women from earning what men make. That problem? Life. Women’s responsibilities outside of […]
Viralwomen.com : by Gia London — My mother phoned a few weeks ago, and she sounded purposeful but hesitant, like she had finally worked up the courage to tell me something important. ‘Honey,’ she said, her voice broken with concern. ‘I want you to stop being a feminist. I love […]
Source: Global Issues By Neeta Lal (New Delhi) NEW DELHI, Jan 08 (IPS) – Women constitute nearly half of the country’s 1.25 billion people and gender equality — whether in […]
theguardian: by Kevin McKenna — Across government, business and financial institutions, incompetent men continue to thwart the progress of talented women How will we know when true gender equality is achieved in the British workplace? Perhaps there is an index running, even now, which measures gender equality with a range […]
Source: Huffington Post By Raza Habib Raja Freelance journalist, PhD Student First of all, let me make it clear that I am NOT an Ahmadi. This clarification is essential […]
Guardian: The UN special rapporteur on torture has accused David Cameron of a “cold-hearted ” approach to the migration crisis, warning that plans to scrap the Human Rights Act risk subverting international obligations designed to protect people fleeing persecution. Juan Méndez said the UK’s intention to replace the act with a […]
Agenda World Economic Forum: by Sri Mulyani Indrawati — In the 1990s very few countries had laws protecting women from violence, now 127 do partially because the world is more aware of the human and economic cost of mistreating women. In 100 countries around the world, women are barred from […]
Source: RT Pope Francis has called on every European parish to host one refugee family each in a goodwill gesture that will begin in the Vatican state. It comes as […]
Global Issues: by Wambi Michael — KAMPALA, Aug 07 (IPS) – After years of a protracted battle against Uganda’s “bride price” practice, the country’s Supreme Court this week ruled that husbands can no longer demand that it be returned in the event of dissolution of a customary marriage but has […]
Huff Post: by Kaitlyn Hatch — Right – it needs to be said: Feminism is causing problems.Not feminism, the belief that all people should have equal opportunities regardless of their sex or gender, perceived or otherwise. That’s not in contention. Feminism, the word, is causing problems. And writing this has […]
Huff Post: by Catherine Russell — Recently Jack Ma called women executives “the secret sauce” of his company Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant. His sentiment is one that research proves over and over again. Women are powerful participants in the economy, whether they are consumers, workers or entrepreneurs. The more […]