A Mighty Girl
Facebook.com Today in Mighty Girl history, Hedy Lamarr, the glamorous movie star from the black-and-white era of film who co-invented a device that helped make possible the development of GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi technology, was born in 1914. Originally from Austria, the mathematically talented Lamarr moved to the US in […]
The Problem With Banning the Burqa
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Celebrating Mighty Girl Heroes: Ten Women You Might Not Know, But Should
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 […]
British women are the queens of leisure? Give me a break
theguardian: bu Brigid Schulte — Real leisure can’t be measured in leftover scraps. It’s something you choose – and it’s never been part of women’s culture British women are “queens of leisure”, luxuriating for five and a half hours a day in the soul-refreshing time that ancient Greeks said was the point […]
Mahr in Islam: Wisdom and Implications
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The Islamic Solution to Stop Domestic Violence
Source: The Huffington Post By Qasim Rashid: Author, ‘The Wrong Kind of Muslim’ Critics incorrectly allege that Islam commands husbands to beat their wives, often citing the Quran verse 4:34. Unfortunately, like […]
50 Powerful Women Religious Leaders To Celebrate On International Women’s Day
Huff Post — International Women’s Day falls on March 8 and is a day for honoring the achievements of women around the world. As the globe moves further in the direction of gender equality, women have assumed leadership roles in countless fields. These religious women are bishops, theologians, doctors, activists, advocates, […]
Violence against women: One-third of EU women affected – survey
Source: BBC By Bethany Bell, BBC News, Vienna The study found that a majority of women did not report the most serious incidents of domestic violence Continue reading the main story Related Stories Mental abuse ‘should be made crime’ Alarm over scale of abuse of women Russia’s domestic violence nightmare […]
Are you interested to know about Women in Islam?
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The female poets who have earned their laurels
theguardian — All five poet laureates of the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland this year are women. On the eve of International Women’s Day this Saturday, they will perform together for the first time at the Women of the World festival at London’s South Bank Centre. Here we […]
Women should not accept street harassment as ‘just a compliment’
theguardian: by Laura Bates — It’s a myth that street harassment is just a bit of harmless fun. It’s about about power and control – and, as I know from personal experience, can so easily turn to violence Walking down a quiet street at around 7pm a few nights ago […]
Men Stepping Up: Ben Horowitz, Demba Diawara and Our Worldwide Fight to End Violence Against Women
Huff Post: by Ruth Messinger — … the most incredible thing about slavery was how it ended. An institution that was embedded into human culture, endorsed by the Bible, promoted by the Qur’an, pervasive in society, and embedded in the global economy was taken on and defeated by a movement […]
Growing Inequality Mars 20 Years of Women’s Progress
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 […]
Lal Khan Malik: Quebec’s ‘values’ debate sows seeds of intolerance
The Muslim Times’ has slightly modified the title of the Op-Ed By: Lal Khan Malik, the National President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Canada. Source: The Star: Continued proliferation […]
Cherie Blair: ‘Muslim Women: Slow But Steady Progress’
Epigraph: Surely, men who submit themselves to God and women who submit themselves to Him, and believing men and believing women, and obedient men and obedient women and truthful men and truthful […]
Women Hold up Half the Sky
Additional Reading Gender Equality in the Holy Qur’an – In the Beginning Man and Woman Were Equal Cherie Blair: ‘Muslim Women: Slow But Steady Progress’
Study dispels stereotypes about Ontario women who wear niqabs
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Men are more forgetful than women
MNT — Men are frequently accused of forgetting birthdays, wedding anniversaries, and even something as simple as taking the trash out. But they have developed this stigma for a reason, a new study suggest – it found that men are more forgetful than women, regardless of their age. The research […]
Rahinah Ibrahim Wins No-Fly List Ruling: Muslim Woman Contests Controversial Program
The Huffington Post: A Muslim woman now living in Malaysia struck a blow to the U.S. government’s “no-fly list” when a federal judge ruled Tuesday (Jan. 14) that the government […]