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 […]
Source: Motto By Megan Lasher If you Google, or just whisper softly to yourself, “Is sexism dead?” chances are, a man while appear to tell you that yes, in fact, […]
aljazeera.com: by Chandana Banerji — For the abandoned babies rescued from death on the streets of Jalandhar, Unique Home provides shelter and a family For the past 23 years, Prakash Kaur Bibi has rescued baby girls abandoned at birth by their biological parents [Photo courtesy of Unique Home for […]
Source: ET For the vast majority in Pakistan, the third gender is an unknown. Hijras/eunuchs, transsexuals, transvestites and hermaphrodites continue to live on the social periphery, confined within their own communities and excluded from ordinary civic and social life. Our interaction with them is limited to a curious glance from […]
Source: RNS BY Tobin Grant The past 24 hours has put police violence to the forefront of our public debate. Post something about these shootings on your Facebook page or […]
Source: Associated Press By MICHELLE L. PRICE and KRISTEN WYATT In this photo taken Tuesday, June 28, 2016, Democratic candidate for Senate Misty Snow speaks with. SALT LAKE CITY […]
Source: BBC By David Robson Once upon a time, animal courtship was thought to run something like a Barbara Cartland novel. The rakish males battle it out for a chaste […]
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, […]
Source: Time By Mandy Oaklander Far too often, a person’s sex or skin color is connected to how much he or she earns—even in the reputationally well-paying field of medicine, finds […]
Source: Associated Press By KAREN MATTHEWS and RACHELLE BLIDNER NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City municipal pool that maintains female-only hours so that Hasidic Jewish women can swim […]
Source: The Guardian By Amber Jamieson From catcalls to discrimination at work, we asked women to tell us about the first time they felt objectified for being female – and the […]
Source: BBC By Who, What WhyThe Magazine answers the questions behind the news Russian President Vladimir Putin is visiting Mount Athos in Greece to mark the 1,000-year presence of Russian […]
Source: Huffington Post Liaquat Ali Khan Founder, Legal Scholar Academy and Professor of Law, Washburn University School of Law The 18th century British colonists, the self-righteous Anglican males of the self-assessed superior civilization, upon arrival in the Mughul-Muslim India, wererepulsed by the sight of Hijras (transgenders) and baffled over why […]
Source: The Guardian By Jessica Glenza in New York Yale has become the latest college to introduce gender-neutral restrooms. The move comes as conservative and liberal legislators in states across the […]
Source: Time By Jeffrey Kluger Your genes don’t care who you share a bathroom with, but your politicians do Want to see a living experiment in what happens when traditional gender […]
Source: Time By Belinda Luscombe Belinda Luscombe is an editor-at-large of TIME A Manhattan rec center struggles to make its locker rooms work for everyone Girls from a swim team in […]
Source: Yahoo News GENEVA (AFP) – Male Muslim students at a school in northern Switzerland will no longer have to shake hands with their female teachers, following a ruling that […]
Source: Pew Research Center Women are generally more religious than men, particularly among Christians Standard lists of history’s most influential religious leaders – among them Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) – tend to be predominantly, if not exclusively, male. Many religious groups, including Roman Catholics and Orthodox […]
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. […]
University of California: by Jim Logan — For Maria Charles, the numbers were plain, but they didn’t add up. Her research into gender segregation in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields revealed an odd fact: affluent countries had considerably fewer women in STEM careers than poor ones did. Since […]