Gr 12 Geography

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.

This article shows how Australia is trying its best to aid the Women's Right department and introduce financial aids, safety, violence prevention and granting more space on the parliamentary seats to be granted more say in decision making. It is noteworthy how they are doing this because they know that in order for a country to reach it's full potential, it has to maximize the use of human resources in the country. 

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. 

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. 

This post will be the first of a two part series on gender inequality in the United States. Gender inequality is defined as the disparity in status, power and prestige between people who identify as women and men. Today I will look at how gender inequality still exists in the United States, despite our frequent unwillingness to acknowledge it.

Gender equality is guaranteed in the Cambodian Constitution which prohibits all forms of discrimination against women (Article 45). Both men and women should have equal opportunity to exercise their civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights.

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The vast majority of Afghanistan's population professes to be followers of Islam. Over 1400 years ago, Islam demanded that men and women be equal before God, and gave them various rights such the right to inheritance, the right to vote, the right to work, and even choose their own partners in marriage.

Mukhtar Mai was brutally gang-raped on the orders of her village council. everybody expected her to commit suicide, as is often the case after rape in Pakistan. She captured the imagination of millions around the world. She is one of Pakistan's most prominent rights activists, and she has since become an icon for women's rights in Pakistan.

"This is both hopeful and sad. When girls are discarded, because they are not the preferred offspring it not only is a tragedy for the girls themselves but the society at large. Where will the young men go when they are grown and there are not enough women? Bless those who preserve these young ladies who hold India's future." - a comment for the video

History was made when the first female Olympian athlete from Saudi Arabia was able to participate in the Olympics this year. Wojdan Shaherkani took to the judo floor in a brief but deeply significant bout that embodies the fight for gender equality in one of the world's most conservative cultures.

By ARTHUR MWANSA MINISTER of Gender and Child Development Inonge Wina says she is happy that women are becoming the primary focus in the Common Market for Eastern and South Africa (COMESA) agriculture and climate change programmes.

Lost since 1979 ... about 80 per cent of summer sea-ice. Photo: Nick Cobbing Climate change has moved into a new and dangerous phase. The Arctic has been warming two to three times faster than the rest of the world.