18/11/2019
The teenage girls who flirted with N***s before luring them into woods and shooting them
‘They were teenagers and they were young and pretty. They would dress up very nicely and wear heavy makeup,’ says author
11/11/2019
Soroptimist International of Singapore is raising funds to help with completing the construction of three shelters for female victims of violence and disasters in Fiji. We are working with the Fijian government in this project. We have fruitcake, chocolate banana cake, sugee cake and cookies on sale this year. We seek your generosity this Christmas season.
10/11/2019
Son preference in India continues to be practised. There are cases of which infant girls are buried alive when the couple decides they don't want the girl child. Girls are seen as a financial liability since a dowry will have to be accumulated to get her married off. However even among wealthier families, female infanticide is practised albeit the ultrasound is used to abort the female foetus before she is born.
Family in India caught in act of burying unwanted newborn girl alive
HYDERABAD (India) — Police in Hyderabad, India recently rescued a newborn baby girl as her family was about to bury her alive in a hastily-dug pit.
10/11/2019
This is what a country achieves when a woman runs it.
'Makes one want to move to New Zealand': Jacinda Ardern's Facebook video goes global
Jacinda Ardern was challenged to list her biggest achievements as NZ's Prime Minister in two minutes. The result has since gone global.
10/11/2019
Punjab assembly breaks glass ceiling, calls for women to perform kirtan at Golden Temple
Punjab assembly passes resolution urging Sikh bodies, the Akal Takht and SGPC, to allow women to perform kirtans.
04/11/2019
Smashing the patriarchy: why there's nothing natural about male supremacy
Psychologists such as Steven Pinker and Jordan Peterson argue patriarchal society is the ‘natural order’, but it is a relatively new development, writes Gaia Vince
04/11/2019
First female medical students get degrees at last
The "Edinburgh Seven" were the first women admitted to study medicine in Britain.
04/11/2019
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez – a world designed for men
From the ‘one-size-fits-men’ approach to smartphone design to the medical trials that are putting women’s lives at risk … this book uses data like a laser