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 […]
Source: Belfast Telegraph By Madiha Walker A graduate in Arabic and Islamic studies. She writes on social affairs and culture, with a specific interest in gender and Muslim women in […]
By Olamide Oni; who is a Senior Associate at Pulse. She is a creative writer, music lover, and a borderline-obsessed Harry Potter fan. When she isn’t working on her first […]
Source: Time A heart attack can look very different between genders Heart disease is the leading cause of death for women in the United States, but the telltale signs of […]
Source: BBC It’s not clear what exact words David Cameron used in private conversation but many Muslim women have taken to Twitter to tell him that they are not quite […]
Source: The Guardian By Remona Aly For a man with an in-tray that never empties, David Cameron has strange priorities. This week, with the world economy shaking perilously and the EU […]
Source: Independent The most obvious flaw in David Cameron’s extremism plan is this. What seems to you more likely to radicalise a young British Muslim: having a mother around the […]
Source: The Economist Our Middle East correspondent speaks to Loujain al-Hathloul and Fahad Albutairi, a married couple, about Loujain’s arrest and incarceration for driving as a woman in Saudi Arabia http://econ.st/1VdXZuT Video here
Source: Telegraph By Allison Pearson A lecturer friend was shocked when a student asked if she could miss class to accompany her mum to hospital. The daughter needed to translate for […]
Source: Religion News Service LONDON (USA Today) — Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday attacked what he called “passive tolerance” of some people in Britain’s Muslim communities who support segregation and discrimination against women, and said […]
Source: CBC We’re more alike than we are different — that’s the message behind a new art exhibit in Surrey which features the work of nine female Ismaili Muslim artists. […]
Source: BBC A £20m fund to teach Muslim women in the UK to speak English will tackle segregation and help them resist the lure of extremism, David Cameron says. While […]
Source: BBC Tsai Ing-wen has been elected Taiwan’s first female president. Ms Tsai, 59, leads the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) that wants independence from China. In her victory speech, she […]
Source: The Guardian As a girl, Noorjehan Niaz remembers visiting the famous Muslim shrine of Haji Ali and walking down the long causeway off the coastline in south Mumbai, pushing […]
A Muslim woman booted from a Donald Trump rally, urged President Barack Obama to tell the world about religious freedom in the U.S., ahead of his State of the Union […]
Source: ET About five years ago, when the PPP wasn’t the sick man we’re used to today, a public post fell vacant. The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) — i.e., […]
Source: Public Opinion My faith and practice of medicine go hand in hand By AMATUL KHALID, M.D. I have been a physician for more than 30 years. Many times I […]
INVENTIONS CREATED BY WOWMEN The Car Heater We all owe our thanks to Margaret A Wilcox who invented the car heater in 1893!(Margaret also invented a combined clothes and dishwasher) 2. Monopoly This popular board game was designed by Elizabeth Magie in 1904, originally called the Landlord’s Game. The […]
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 […]
Source: Reuters Gambia on Tuesday ordered female government employees to wear headscarves at work in a sign that the West African country is embracing a Muslim identity one month after […]