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North America | United States | Politics

Alaska Senator Says Only Women Showed Up To Run Congress Post-Blizzard

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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) has been impressed with the cold weather survival skills of her female colleagues in the Senate this week. The men, not so much. Murkowski was one of the few lawmakers on Capitol Hill Tuesday, and she noted on the Senate floor that it was pretty much only women joining her. "As we convene this morning, you look around the chamber, the presiding officer is female. All of our parliamentarians are female. Our floor managers are female. All of our pages are female," said Murkowski, who is obviously used to dealing with snow. "Something is genuinely different
International | Culture

Nordic Nations Among the Best Countries for Women, Survey Finds

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They may pay among the world’s highest taxes, endure long winters and watch the sunset before 4 p.m., but Danish women still remain the envy of many in the world. The Kingdom of Denmark is the best country for women, at least according to the more than 7,000 women who filled out surveys for the 2016 Best Countries rankings. The rankings, formed in partnership with brand strategy firm BAV Consulting and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, aim to gauge global perceptions of the world’s biggest economies in terms of specific attributes associated with countries. The Be
Europe | Germany | Crimes

Uncensored Dana Loesch Blasts German Officials for Putting ‘Political Correctness’ Over Safety of Women

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During an interview on Fox News’ “The Kelly File” Wednesday evening, Dana Loesch condemned a German mayor’s response to a mass sexual assault in her city. Cologne police said that on New Year’s Eve, more than a thousand men “of Arab or North African appearance,” committed a series of crimes including sexual assaults, robberies and at least one rape. Police called the chaos “a completely new dimension of crime.” And reports indicate that at least eight of the suspects who have been identified were in the country as asylum seekers. Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker has bec
South Asia | India | Society

Indian college women push back against curfews

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We could stay out late occasionally, but only with prior permission from the hostel warden and a letter from our parents. Such curfews are common in almost every residential facility for girls and women across India. Boys and men’s accommodations though have later curfew and far fewer restrictions. At the time, my college friends and I never thought to protest against this. As annoying as the rules were, we accepted them because to some extent we must have felt safer locked up indoors than being outdoors after dark. But now, women here in New Delhi are pushing back. They have started a
North America | United States | Advice

Female company president: “I’m sorry to all the mothers I worked with”

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PowerToFly President Katharine Zaleski admits: “I didn’t realize how horrible I’d been – until I had a child of my own.” I still am embarrassed by this memory. Five years ago I walked into an office on the twenty-fifth floor of the Manhattan headquarters of Time Inc. (which owns Fortune.) I was there to meet with Time.com’s then managing editor and pitch a partnership idea, but once I took a seat and surveyed the endless photos of her small children spread across the airy space, I decided this editor was too much of a mother to follow up on the idea. I still went throug
International | Economy

Women’s paid and unpaid work, and the colonial hangover

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Women’s labour is undervalued. Few could argue with that statement: the evidence is available anecdotally in our day to day lives, in the types of work available to women across the globe, and in the pay and remuneration women receive for their labour. Statistically, it’s undeniable: wherever a labour market exists, a gender pay gap is evident. Speaking at the IAFFE, Nuria Molina and Kasia Staswezska pointed out that globally, the cost of the gender pay gap is $17trillion: comparable to the combined gross domestic product of France, the United Kingdom, and Germany. But focussing on paid
North America | United States | History

Women Haven’t Had Their Own Ticker-Tape Parade Since 1960

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Friday’s ticker-tape parade in honor of the U.S. women’s national soccer team, which won the World Cup on Sunday, is the first such parade in New York to honor exclusively women since 1960. That’s when Carol Heiss received the ticker-tape treatment in honor of her figure-skating gold medal at the 1960 Winter Games. The most recent parade in which a woman was included took place in 1998, when Chiaki Mukai was honored along with the rest of the crew of the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Africa | Uganda | Culture

Why women in Uganda don’t care about work-life balance

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Consistent research is highlighting the disadvantage faced by women, particularly mothers, in today's modern workplace. The most recent data from the Workplace Gender Equality Agency suggests that women in management are paid 45% less than their male counterparts. Many women are torn between trying to be a 100% excellent worker and 100%perfect mother, and often feel like a failure at both as they are stretched too thin. I think it serves no purpose to dwell on all the difficult things that women have to deal with. We seem to reinforce this caricature of ourselves as working mother
Europe | U.K. | Economy

Vogue editor Alexandra Shulman speaks out against too much maternity leave

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The editor of British Vogue has criticised women who return from maternity leave only to announce soon after that they are pregnant again. In an interview with The Times, the fashion journalist commented that women cannot expect their jobs to be reserved for them ‘in aspic’ whilst they are off on maternity leave and that such behaviour is ‘frustrating for offices’. “I do think you have to accept there can be consequences from not being there. Office life has to go on. People don’t just leave your job, your role, the you-ness of it, in aspic, waiting for you to c
Europe | Spain | Science

Highly educated women stop smoking if the cost goes up, reports Spanish study

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Cigarette prices and images on cigarette packets have an impact on women in terms of continuing to smoke or quitting. In fact, less educated women are more responsive to pictorial labels on cigarette packets, as revealed by a study that has analysed, for the first time, the generation differences among female smokers, a group which, despite policy measures, has not stopped growing. In Spain, smoking levels are declining among men, but this trait does not extend to women. In the face of this phenomenon, experts claim that policy measures are needed to tackle such gender disparity, in ord
North America | United States | Activism

Women Turn Tables on Online Harassers

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About 24 hours after joining Tinder, Ashley Brincefield, 31, a customs inspector in Port Tobacco, Md., began getting creepy messages. Married men propositioned her for sex. Guys lashed out if they didn’t get a reply in a timely fashion. Various men sent naked selfies. Ms. Brincefield tried blocking them and reporting them to Tinder, but the harassers would just surface under a new screen name, she said. So she decided to take matters into her own hands. She took screen shots of the offending messages, superimposed them with remarks like “Tinder is not the solution to your marital problem
North America | United States | Ethics

Planned Parenthood head says take ‘politics out of women’s health care’

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Today, women’s accomplishments across a range of arenas can be tied to the freedom birth control offers in planning a family, according to Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. “I can’t imagine going back to a time when women couldn’t make their own decisions about whether or when to have a child,” she said. Richards continues to highlight the other health services her organization provides to women, which make up the bulk of its care. “These are what I think of as bedrock American values,” she said. “I think anyone who’s trying
International | Culture

M.G. Opera: Feminism Is Losing Its Cage Fight With Multiculturalism

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Late last year the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, openly discussed what he considers an obvious “fact”: that men and women are not equal. He argued that Islam has made it clear that a woman’s primary role is motherhood, which is not equal to a man’s role. This was widely reported in the media, but did not provoke the kind of indignation one would expect. There were no long commentaries decrying this speech, or tirades against the patriarchal culture of Muslim-majority countries. Multiculturalism Means Suspending All Criticism The multicultural project,

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