"Four Ethiopian domestic workers are thought to have killed themselves in three weeks. Lebanon must protect these women. They mop floors, take out the rubbish, walk the dog, buy groceries and care for the children, the elderly or disabled. Many a well-to-do and lower middle...
"Can it be true that male doctors earn an average of £15,000 more a year than their female colleagues?" And if it is true, what pray tell, could explain the difference in salaries? "After factoring out differences due to age, experience and area of specialism, it seems that...
The New York Post is accused of anti-Obama bias by former editor Sandra Guzman. Guzman claims the New York Post is on a mission to destroy President Barack Obama. Ms. Guzman, who was fired after speaking out...
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has announced a national call to action on ENDA. The call came after the Human Rights Campaign confirmed the Committee on Education and Labor will vote on Wednesday, November 18,...
Special Correspondent Lynn Sherr and producer Megan Thompson examine the state of gay marriage in Greece. "Homosexuality dates back thousands of years in Ancient Greece, where same-sex relationships were well...
"Women are paid less than half as much as men in some parts of the UK, according to statistics published today that reveal huge regional variations in the pay gap between male and female workers." Some recent reading had led me to believe that this was a situation that was...
Human rights groups blast Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill, which includes a section that would introduce the death penalty for the offence of "aggravated homosexuality." The draft Anti-Homosexuality Bill was...
"According to a major just-released report (PDF) from the Guttmacher Institute, increased use of contraception has helped decrease unintended pregnancy worldwide. Abortions, ergo, are down as well, from an estimated 45.5 million procedures in 1995 to 41.6 million in 2003. In...
And we have yet another example of obstructionist legality on abortion which is, I have little doubt, introduced to prevent women accessing abortions, and to make abortions more difficult to practitioners to perform. "A new Oklahoma law will require the details of every...
"University women's groups in Britain are up in arms after a leading academic referred to female students as "perks of the job." In a Times article titled ‘The Seven Deadly Sins of the Academy’, Vice-Chancellor Kealey of Buckingham University claims, “Most male...
"This was supposed to be the trip that would show exactly how Hillary Rodham Clinton would make good on her pledge, at her confirmation hearing for secretary of state, to make women’s issues “central” to U.S. foreign policy, not “adjunct or auxiliary or in any way...
A brief piece on the real sharia law from salon. "You might recall how just a few months ago fierce global condemnation pushed Afghan President Hamid Karzai to reconsider a law allowing Shia men to rape their wives. Remember how Karzai promised that the bill would...
A Muslim woman was prevented from going swimming at her local pool in Paris because of her burqini, a swimsuit that covers most of the body. Officials insisted on Wednesday that she was stopped to maintain French pool hygiene standards, which include laws disallowing...
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"If more fathers were able to take career breaks when a child is born, women might not have to delay motherhood." Here's an interesting suggestion. If we're concerned as a society for whatever reason about women delaying having babies, then perhaps we should do something...
"Maternity leave has always been problematic for female professionals. But in the teeth of recession, pregnant women - and working mothers - are under threat as never before." Well this is disappointing news, to say the least. They say that in a recession, the vulnerable are...