Parentdish: by Isabelle Khoo — Verizon’s Verizon’s latest commercial proves that advertisements can have powerful messages. In the ad, “Inside Her Mind,” the communications company tells us why we shouldn’t call girls pretty, but pretty brilliant instead. In the ad, a statistic by the National Science Foundation sheds light on the fact that […]
Parentdish: by Isabelle Khoo — Verizon’s Verizon’s latest commercial proves that advertisements can have powerful messages. In the ad, “Inside Her Mind,” the communications company tells us why we shouldn’t call girls pretty, but pretty brilliant instead. In the ad, a statistic by the National Science Foundation sheds light on the fact that […]
The Washington Post: by Terrence Mccoy — In a town in western Ireland, where castle ruins pepper green landscapes, there’s a six-foot stone wall that once surrounded a place called the Home. Between 1925 and 1961, thousands of “fallen women” and their “illegitimate” children passed through the Home, run by the Bon […]
The NewYork Times: by Nitahsa Tiku — So what if, instead of trying to guess at what might get girls interested in technology, we looked at what’s already on their screens? While parents often worry about recreational “screen time,” some educators now believe that gaming could be a way to […]
Huff Post: by Jennifer Dobner — SALT LAKE CITY, April 5 (Reuters) – Hundreds of Mormon women who want ecclesiastical equality were denied admittance to a male-only session of their faith’s spring conference on Saturday, in their bid to promote the ordination of women into the lay priesthood. Adorned in […]
Women’s Worlds Congress International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women – a brief The first Women’s Worlds Congress was held at Haifa University in December of 1981. It was the first world-wide […]
A Mighty Girl: by Jennifer de Beer — Do you know the name of the Polish social worker who rescued 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII? How about the name of America’s first female self-made millionaire? Can you name a British suffrage movement leader who Time Magazine declared to […]
theguardian: by Liz Ford — Help us create a global platform for discussion that amplifies the voices of women’s rights advocates around the world Over the past few decades, the often tireless work of the women’s movement around the world has brought positive change. There has been a growing recognition […]
Global Issues: by Jonathan Rozen — UNITED NATIONS, Feb 14 (IPS) – As the world moves closer to the 2015 end mark of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), a new U.N. report illuminates how far global society has come, but also how far it still must travel to achieve its […]
GirlRising – Flash mobs were last year’s trend, but this year it’s all about the lightning strength of the Girl Risingmovement– hundreds of people inspiring others to take action in their own communities by spreading a simple message: Educate girls, change the world. These new advocates for girls gather less surprisingly and […]
guardian: My nephew remarked recently that in his GCSE computer science class there was just one girl among 29 boys. When I asked him why he thought that was, he replied that he saw nothing unusual – in his opinion computer science was simply a subject “for boys”. This, […]
Source: The Huffington Post Pope Francis has said repeatedly that he wants to see greater roles for women in the Catholic Church, and some argue that he could take a […]
June 27 By Maryam Khan Ansari – ILLUME Reporter Washington DC, USA The Same-sex marriage ruling has cleared the way for many, including gay Muslims, to marry. But over the years, homosexuals who identify as Muslims found it difficult to have an Imam perform the ceremony. Now, they have a […]
Israel’s religious Zionist kids growing up in a world where females are taboo Source: Haaretz: Cleansing texts and other media of women is a relatively new development among religious Zionists, […]
By Yasmeen Ali They are married. When She says NO. And He forces. It is Marital Rape. Every woman has a right to take a decision about her body, to decide if she wants to exercise birth control, get pregnant and when NOT to have sex. Physical coercion alone is […]
Source: Jakarta Post Insight: Protecting all members of our human family By: Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary-General, New York | Insight I am a great champion of the power of […]
Source: Business Insider We are told not to judge a book by its cover, but new research indicates that sometimes, those inclinations are correct. Women can often tell if a man is likely to be a cheater from their face alone. Men weren’t able to see the same in women. […]
A day-long event that focused on exhibition, lecture and souq to demonstrate how to live modestly and protect women’s modesty was held on Monday at the Jamiat Al Islah in Al Qusais. More than 40 countries from across the world exhibited their national costumes, including modern but modest dresses of […]
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir high court has held that a Muslim man’s power to divorce (Talaq) his wife is not “unrestricted or unqualified”. Justice Hasnain Masoodi in his 23-page judgment extensively went into details of the Shariah law and Quranic injunctions to hold that a “husband cannot have unrestricted […]
Dawn.com: Peggy Reynolds. WHEN I was a young lecturer a knock came at my office door. “Oh”, said the young man as I opened it, “So sorry — I was looking for Dr Reynolds.” This is a story from the ‘olden days’ but things have not changed that much. I […]