There are two sides of town. On one side of town, violent and abusive men are horrible to women who are beautiful, warm and compassionate and insist on treating them like dirt. On the other side of town, nasty and mean-spirited women are ugly to men who have goodwill toward...
http://newsdoors.blogspot.com/2013/02/gender-bending-compounds-in-toys-floors.html Landmark study by the World Health Organization warns gender bending chemicals in your home, food and car ARE linked to a huge range of diseases Chemicals found in every home may cause...
I get some of my column ideas, strangely, while reading Christian right-wing websites. Well, one of them, one that quite frequently seeks to attack and disparage gays but especially gay men, led to this column. In Germany, a man has started wearing a dress in solidarity with...
I have known many people, both women and men, who have been abused or are being abused by their partners. Most severe cases have been women at hand of men; but I've also seen enough woman-on-man nastiness. I am not going to accept the Christian explanation that all...
By Sam VakninAuthor of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" Film Review: "What to Expect When You Are Expecting" (2012) Modern pop culture bombards us with gender stereotypes, which by now have become truisms: women are always sensitive, misunderstood, in touch with...
By Sam VakninAuthor of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited" Until recently, couples formed around promises of emotional exclusivity and social fidelity, uniqueness in each other’s mind and life, and (more common until the 1940s) virginity. Marriage was also a...
Sexism is an ideology that attaches value to individuals on the basis of gender. It is a gender based hierarchy, that ascribes the highest status to males, and the lowest status to females. The enhanced status given to males, encourages men to incorporate their gender...
Male and Female
The errors involved in this matter are age-long. There are many who believe such things as that men are of God and women of Satan, that women are amoral or evil, or that women are meant to be subservient to men. There are others who believe that men are...
This document deals with the detail areas, issues and contemporary context of the indigenous, Madhesi, Dalit, disable and women in Nepal. It is named as “Status, upliftment efforts, problems, solutions and potentialities of Indigenous, Madhesi, Dalit,...
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Nadine Dorries, Conservative MP, who has voted against equal gay rights in the past, has just successfully proposed a bill to teach GIRLS (specifically) the ‘benefits’ of abstinence from ‘sexual...
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A Regional Women Leaders' Convention is being held on 24-25 March 2011, in Mau, UP, as part of the Empowering Rural Women (ERW)programme, which has been operating in 253 Gram Panchayats (village councils) of 10 districts of UP, since December 2007. This is a unique...
Meaningful community engagement is so central to addressing tuberculosis (TB) of all forms. In preventing, diagnosing and treating genital TB it becomes no less valuable. "For sure the issue of genital TB caused me to flashback on the number of women who have had several...
Although women get diagnosed for tuberculosis (TB) later than men, treatment outcomes among women are better than men with higher TB treatment success rate and lower default (drop-out) rate in the female patients. Among the unreached people who need TB care, a significant...
Tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes are better among women as compared to those in men, said Dr KS Sachdeva, Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) of the Government of India. According to the RNTCP data, among new sputum positive cases of...
According to the study done by Tuberculosis Research Centre in India alarming numbers of women with tuberculosis (TB) become homeless once diagnosed with TB. At a meeting on importance of addressing TB in context of women’s health organized by Global Health Advocates (GHA)...