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Alexandra Haines

To empower African women, turn words into action - CNN - 1 views

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  • Claire Ramsey on 23 Sep 12
     
    Women are mobilizing alongside their male counterparts for greater political freedom like we have seen in Egypt and Tunisia. Women are robustly active in the workforce and serve as CEOs of Fortune 500 companies.
akioheltmann

The terrible deaths that make us ask: should women serve on the frontline? | Society | ... - 0 views

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  • Jyoti Mand on 24 Sep 12
     
    Two young women were killed by a violent man this week. Should women be serving society in the frontline or is it too dangerous for them.
Claire Ramsey

Given the right to property, women find it hard to get a share in property, says activist - 1 views

articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...perty-women-peace-and-security

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  • Claire Ramsey on 23 Sep 12
     
    NAGPUR: Women in India, despite given the right to property, find it hard to get a share in property. The ignorance of right based perspective or the unthinkable disobedience of gender inequality is the most difficult challenge in front of the persons working in the judicial system, said human right analyst and lawyer Asim Sarode on Friday.
Jyoti Mand

Who creates harmony the world over? Women. Who signs peace deals? Men - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...harmony-women-peace-deals

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  • Jyoti Mand on 24 Sep 12
     
    Around the world, women make peace in their homes and communities on a daily basis. But when it comes to negotiating and signing peace deals on a national or international level they are almost universally shut out, according to a report that calls for a more balanced approach to resolving conflict.
Jin Seo

China fights gender inequality in the workplace | New Europe - 1 views

www.neurope.eu/...ts-gender-inequality-workplace

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  • Jin Seo on 23 Sep 12
     
    This article shows how despite high literacy rate of females in China, the women face another obstacle; fair wages in the work place and promotion. The discrimination also occurs in the politics, with a very low percentage of the delegates being women. It shows how there is a long way to go until full equity in rights for women. 
Jin Seo

HR Magazine - UK gender pay gap is typically over £4,907 annually - 0 views

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  • Jin Seo on 23 Sep 12
     
    This article mentions how there is a 10% pay gap between men and women due to the few variety of jobs that women occupy. In order to fix this problem of gender gap in the work place, the EU is planning to increase number of women on boards of business. 
toomuchdot

BBC News - Women in Saudi Arabia 'to vote and run in elections' - 1 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...world-us-canada-15052030

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  • toomuchdot on 25 Sep 11
     
    saudi women...the vote?
Zoe N

Women Wearing Provocative Clothing Leads to Rape: Indonesian Governor - 0 views

www.ibtimes.com/...ape-protest-governor-islam.htm

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  • Zoe N on 20 Sep 11
     
    Status of women: shows that instead of protecting women, they blame them for their clothing.
Zoe N

Yemen women burn veils in protest - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...world-middle-east-15466661

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  • Zoe N on 26 Oct 11
     
    "Hundreds of women have set fire to their traditional veils in Yemen in protest at the violence used against anti-government demonstrators. The women, in the capital Sanaa, made a pile of veils in the street which they then doused with petrol and set alight."
Julien Klein

Gender Discrimination in the Workplace | Psych Central News - 0 views

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  • Julien Klein on 24 Sep 12
     
    The way women are treated in comparison to men in work.
trueaim285

Lift restrictions on women's education, rights group tells Iran - 3 views

www.timescolonist.com/...story.html

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  • trueaim285 on 23 Sep 12
     
    Human Rights Watch urged Iran on Saturday to lift restrictions on women attending university and enrolling in certain academic fields.
trueaim285

Arab Spring reforms still leaving women out in the cold - 1 views

www.jconline.com/usatoday/article/57826430?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|p

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  • trueaim285 on 23 Sep 12
     
    Although the Arab Spring did bring about reforms and a provisional government after overthrowing the leaders, activists esp. women activists still feel neglected due to gender inequality. Reforms are bringing brought up to advocate and solve these issues as restoration continues.....
Hina Washizu

US military to allow women on the frontline - 1 views

www.aljazeera.com/...201312322325812420.html

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  • Hina Washizu on 24 Jan 13
     
    US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has decided to lift the military's ban on women serving in combat, a move that could open thousands of frontline warfighting jobs to female service members, a senior US defence official said.
Isabella Yamamoto

BBC News - Women are central to feeding Africa - 0 views

www.bbc.co.uk/...business-13049176

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  • Isabella Yamamoto on 15 Sep 11
     
    Women Farming Empowerment 
Anissa Eckhoff

Lung cancer rates up among UK women - 0 views

www.bbc.com/uk-26659696

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  • Anissa Eckhoff on 24 Mar 14
     
    Lung cancer rates among women in the UK have risen by 73% since 1975, while falling by 47% among men. Cancer Research UK, which has released the figures, says the changes are because of contrasting trends in smoking habits in men and women. Lung cancer is a disease of affluence
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