Source: THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION By Aaron Gould Sheinin State Rep. Jason Spencer, R-Woodbine, said Thursday he will withdraw his proposed legislation that would ban women from wearing burqas on public property in Georgia. Spencer filed the bill on Monday, the first day lawmakers could present legislation to be considered when the Legislature returns in […]
Source: The Jerusalem Post Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein promised at a ceremony opening the Knesset’s renovated synagogue on Monday that it would soon feature a “beautiful women’s section.” At the […]
Huff Post: by Alanna Vagianos — “Locker room talk” will not silence our voices. RICH POLK VIA GETTY IMAGES “I’ve been asking myself this simple question: Will our girls finally be the ones to have workplaces free from sexual harassment?” Carlson wrote in a recent essay I want to do […]
Huff Post: by JamesMichael Nichols — We need to feel that pain of this moment. And we need to take care of each other. ANADOLU AGENCY VIA GETTY IMAGES Waking up today felt like waking up from a fever dream. Over the past 18 months, minorities have endured an […]
Dawn.com: by Faiza Ilyas — KARACHI: Every second woman in Pakistan suffers from some form of domestic violence that has an extremely damaging effect on her physical and mental well-being, said Dr Tazeen Saeed Ali during a session held on Saturday as part of the three-day national health sciences research […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sarah Larimer Nura Afia’s YouTube channel has thousands and thousands of subscribers. You can see her here, giving a smoky eye makeup tutorial. And here, going over […]
Source: The Guardian By Harriet SherwoodReligion correspondent About half a million babies in Britain, most with unmarried mothers, were adopted from the 50s to the 70s via church-run agencies. Photograph: Tom Merton/Getty Images/Caiaimage Pressure is mounting for a public inquiry into the adoption of hundreds of thousands of babies born to […]
Source: The Guardian It’s been sad and moving, the outpouring of anguish that has greeted an apology from the Catholic church for its adoption policy during the 1950s, 60s and 70s. It’s reckoned that half a million babies were prised from their young mothers’ arms in the days after birth, […]
Source: Raw Story BY TOM BOGGIONI Responding to comments from a men’s rights activist on a posting about finding enjoyment in sex with a wife who grudgingly agrees, the host […]
Source: RNS By Emily McFarlan Miller ST. PAUL, Minn. (RNS) The Xcel Energy Center was full of women – young and old, Protestant and Catholic, on fire for Jesus and burned out by church. Some came alone. Some came with the same groups of friends and family that have attended similar […]
By Delia Gallagher, CNN Rome (CNN) Pope Francis’ resounding no to women becoming priests may come as a surprise considering the popular narrative of him as a reformer who seeks […]
Source: Time Pope Francis told reporters Tuesday that the Roman Catholic Church’s restriction on women entering the priesthood is likely to remain in place forever. The remarks — issued aboard the papal plane as the Pope flew back to Rome from Sweden — came in response to a journalist asking […]
Source: USA Today By John Bacon The Catholic Church’s ban on women priests will stand forever, Pope Francis said Tuesday. The pontiff made the declaration in response to a female reporter asking if he thought […]
Source: Reuters By Jilian Mincer | NEW YORK American women are ending pregnancies with medication almost as often as with surgery, marking a turning point for abortion in the United States, data reviewed by Reuters shows. The watershed comes amid an overall decline in abortion, a choice that remains politically […]
The middle section of this interview is about women rights, segregation and Hijab in Islam, starting at minute 11 of this video. Peter Mansbridge One on One with Hazrat Mirza […]
Source: Wall Street Journal By IAN LOVETT Since becoming an evangelical Christian in college, Laura Robinson has also called herself a Republican. But after watching the video of GOP presidential […]
Huff Post: by Carol Kuruvlla — Ilhan Omar is making waves in Minnesota. NITIKA GUPTAIlhan Omar. Ilhan Omar is a former refugee, a Somali-American activist, and a proud Democrat. On November 8, the 33-year-old is poised to become one of the few Muslim women ever elected to a state […]
Source of the book review: Amazon Book by Amani Al-Khatahtbeh Required reading from the founder of MuslimGirl.com—a harrowing and candid memoir about coming of age as a Muslim American in the […]
Source: ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL By Katy Barnitz / Journal Staff Writer Khawla Abdel-Haq said she felt like she’d been undressed when Gill Parker Payne pulled the hijab off her head during a flight to Albuquerque in December, “He violated me, not just took off my scarf,” she said in an interview after […]
Source: BBC Women in 15 cities across the US have gathered at Trump buildings to protest against the presidential candidate. One of the largest protests was at the Trump Tower in Manhattan, New York. Video by Anna Bressanin