Breaking taboo, Hindu widows celebrate festival of colors
Source: Associated press VRINDAVAN, India (AP) — Aruna Samaddar threw fistfuls of colored powder into the air. Blue and red and green, the cheerful colors settled on her white sari […]
Saudi Arabia: All female Brunei crew in historic flight
Source: BBC Three Royal Brunei Airlines pilots have made history by being the company’s first all-female flight crew, making their first journey to Saudi Arabia, where women are not allowed […]
Egyptian man sentenced to 3 years in prison for calling women immoral
Source: CNN (CNN)An Egyptian man was sentenced to three years in prison for saying some of the nation’s married women are unfaithful, state media reported. In addition to prison time, Taymour el-Sobky will also get hard labor. He made the assertion during a television show in December, state-run newspaper Al-Ahram […]
The STEM gender gap is not where you think
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 […]
Head of U.N. Women Voices Tacit Support for Hillary Clinton
Source: Time ‘Because she is a woman, she has got our support’ U.N. Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka quietly acknowledged that she and U.N. Women support Hillary Clinton’s candidacy for […]
Today is International Women’s Day and We have the Most Extensive Coverage on Women Rights
Epigraph: And We have enjoined on man to be good to his parents. His mother bears him with pain, and brings him forth with pain. And the bearing of him […]
Will America’s Olympic Flag Bearer Be Wearing a Hijab?
Source: The New Yorker Growing up, in Maplewood, New Jersey, where her father was a narcotics detective and her mother a special-education teacher, Ibtihaj Muhammad competed in softball, tennis, volleyball, […]
Top Pakistani religious body rules women’s protection law ‘un-Islamic’
Source: Reuters A powerful Pakistani religious body that advises the government on the compatibility of laws with Islam on Thursday declared a new law that criminalizes violence against women to […]
Video: Islam Believes in the Equality, Education, and Empowerment of Women
The Muslim Times’ has most extensive collection on Women Rights. Suggested Reading Gender Equality in the Holy Qur’an – In the Beginning Man and Woman Were Equal
The Sexual Misery of the Western World
Source: The Muslim Matters By Daniel Haqiqatjou LOS ANGELES, United States — After Woodstock came campus surveys on sexual assault. After bra-burning came date rape. The Sexual revolution of the […]
59% of U.S. Catholics say the church should allow women to become priests
Source: Pew Research Forum Many Catholics say the church should change its stance on key issues. In particular, they would like to see it expand eligibility for the priesthood, relax […]
Vatican newspaper essays say women should preach at Mass
Source: Religion News Service (RNS) A series of essays in the semiofficial Vatican newspaper is urging the Catholic Church to allow women to preach from the pulpit at Mass, a […]
5 facts about abortion
Source: Pew Research Center More than four decades after the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision, opponents and supporters of abortion rights are still battling over the issue in court. This year, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on a case challenging a Texas law that requires abortion clinics in the […]
Women relatively rare in top positions of religious leadership
Source: Pew Research Center While many large religious organizations in the United States allow women to be ordained – and to hold leadership positions within the organization – few women have actually served at the very top. We looked at nine major religious organizations in the U.S. that both ordain […]
Women Justices Defend Abortion Providers in Supreme Court Oral Arguments
Source: Time The Supreme Court was divided along ideological lines in oral arguments on Wednesday in what is perhaps the most important abortion case in a generation, while swing vote Anthony Kennedy appeared to question the medical consequences of changing abortion practices in Texas. The women on the Supreme Court […]
Is Hijab An Obstacle for Muslim Women Living In Canada?
Source: The Huffington Post When I made the decision to move to Canada, I was terrified. I feared that I would not be able to get used to life here. […]
How Muslim women are winning the 2016 campaign
CNN This presidential election season we’ve paid much attention to the anti-Muslim ideas some presidential candidates like Donald Trump spew — and rightfully so. Most political candidates would never dare […]
Annual Peace Symposium in Toronto
Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association of Canada is going to hold its 1st Annual Peace Symposium on March 6, 2016 at Tahir Hall Community Center (10610 Jane St, Maple, ONL6A 3A2) […]
This Is How March Became Women’s History Month
Source: Time “Women’s history is women’s right” Many things have come to womankind surprisingly recently: The right to vote. The right to own property. And, perhaps less surprisingly, the existence […]
Beauty Queen of Czech Democratic Republic Marketa Korinkova embraces Islam
Former Beauty Queen of Democratic Republic of Czechoslovakia, Marketa Korinkova embraced Islam after repenting to lead the life of Christianity. She said that she has decided to embrace Islam and […]