Women worked to death in Lebanon

"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...

Doctors are apparently being paid more if they're male

"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...

Gender pay gap still as high as 50%, UK survey says

"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...

The deadly new stats on abortion bans

"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...

New Oklahoma Law Will Put Details Of All Abortions Online

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...

Trivialising women the world over... even the powerful

"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...

Afghan law: Wife refusing sex? Deny her food

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...

Woman Banned From Parisian Pool for Wearing Burquini

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...

Bring men into the family

"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...

Pregnant staff face new wave of bullying in recession

"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...