theguardian: by Monica Mark — The young Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai with five of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls, who managed to escape. Photograph: Isaac Babatunde/AFP/Getty Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani activist who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban, has urged Nigeria’s government to spend more on the […]
theguardian: by Andrew Brown — The Church of England has finally agreed that women may become bishops next year, breaking with nearly 2,000 years of tradition and ending 20 years of bitter compromises since women were allowed to become priests in 1994. Applause in the public gallery greeted the overwhelming […]
Epigraph: But whoso does good works, whether male or female, and is a believer, such shall enter Heaven, and shall not be wronged even as much as the little hollow […]
Epigraph: But whoso does good works, whether male or female, and is a believer, such shall enter Heaven, and shall not be wronged even as much as the little hollow […]
theguardian: by Kirsten West Savali — When 20-year-old Frankea Dabbs abandoned her 10-month-old baby girl on a New York City subway platform on 7 July, it was a piercing cry for help that has long echoed throughout homes, neighborhoods and cities across the United States – a cry that is often ignored […]
theguardian: by Kirsten West Savali — When 20-year-old Frankea Dabbs abandoned her 10-month-old baby girl on a New York City subway platform on 7 July, it was a piercing cry for help that has long echoed throughout homes, neighborhoods and cities across the United States – a cry that is often ignored […]
The Independent: by Caroline Lucas — Parliament is a peculiar sort of place. Upon standing to speak there earlier this year, wearing a white t-shirt emblazoned with the words ‘No More Page Three’ – in support of the namesake campaign – I was metaphorically plonked into the naughty corner. No one batted […]
Huff Post — It’s a message that has been ingrained in the heads of women around North America: you don’t look good enough. Yet. But a fearless new campaign is trying to get women to shake free from the shackles of this dangerous thought. The “Stop The Beauty Madness” campaign […]
Huff Post — It’s a message that has been ingrained in the heads of women around North America: you don’t look good enough. Yet. But a fearless new campaign is trying to get women to shake free from the shackles of this dangerous thought. The “Stop The Beauty Madness” campaign […]
Huff Post: by Michelle Cove — I started to see it happen last year when my daughter was in third grade. She and her friends lost all ability to accept a compliment. If you told one, “Hey, congratulations on your science project,” she’d respond, “Thanks, but did you see Christine’s? […]
IPSnews: by Azza Suleiman — CAIRO, Mar 12 2014 (IPS) – Although indicators relating to women have improved over the years, they still remain large differences between men and women in literacy and schooling, the labor force and unemployment, and political participation. In Egypt, as in most other countries, there are […]
When the Iranian revolution of 1979 took place, Nadia Shahram was a student in Buffalo, New York, far away from her family in Iran. But her mother and sisters were […]
theguardian: by John Hooper — In his first interview with a female journalist since his election to the spiritual leadership of the world’s 1.2 billion baptised Catholics, Pope Francis dodged a string of questions about whether he intended raising the status of women in his church and made a joke about women […]
theguardian: by John Hooper — In his first interview with a female journalist since his election to the spiritual leadership of the world’s 1.2 billion baptised Catholics, Pope Francis dodged a string of questions about whether he intended raising the status of women in his church and made a joke about women […]
Epigraph: They ask thee concerning wine and the game of hazard. Say: ‘In both there is great sin and also some advantages for men; but their sin is greater than […]
NY Times: WASHINGTON — It was, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg later said, “such a delightful surprise.” In a 2003 Supreme Court opinion, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist suddenly turned into a feminist, denouncing “stereotypes about women’s domestic roles.” Justice Ginsburg said the chief justice’s “life experience” had played a part in the […]
Huff Post: by Bunmi Laditan — What time is it? What day is it? Oh gosh this bed feels so good. Why can’t I just stay here all day. That would be the perfect vacation. Screw the Caribbean, I just want my bed. My bed with Netflix and cheesecake. And […]
Huff Post: by Bunmi Laditan — What time is it? What day is it? Oh gosh this bed feels so good. Why can’t I just stay here all day. That would be the perfect vacation. Screw the Caribbean, I just want my bed. My bed with Netflix and cheesecake. And […]
Huff Post: by Mary E. Graham — He challenges me, encourages me and talks me down off cliffs, but he isn’t the end-all-be-all of my world. That is a dangerous thing to ask of a relationship because I’m in love with and married to a flawed man. And he married […]
Forbes.com: by Cheryl Conner — Popular psychology to the contrary, most women professionals are struggling according to a new study by career strategist and author Megan Dalla-Camina. Dalla-Camina is the author of Getting Real About Having It All, a book she premiered in Australia late last year that is debuting in […]