Celebrate Women | ONE
This International Women's Day (and week), let's come together and celebrate the stories of women who show resilience, strength and courage every day. Opportunity International works with many of these women. ...

Intute - Blog - Do women tweet more than men?
Also from the USA the National Information Center on Women and Information Technology has facts and figures on employment in the IT industry and qualifications in IT by women. Similarly in the UK BCS women is a specialist group of the ...

Women ignore men's household work
LONDON - If a new research is to be believed, men do far more housework than they are given credit for.

Vatican Editorial: With More Women in Charge, We Could Have ...
If women broke the “code of silence” and were part of Catholic Church hierarchy, we probably would not have had the pedophile priest epidemic, reads an editorial in the Vatican weekly L'Osservatore Romano, where Italian historian ...

Are women really on top when it comes to the charts? | Music ...
Nosheen Iqbal: This week saw the most successful UK charts run ever enjoyed by female artists. But marketing women in pop hasn't changed much from the poster girls of postwar Britain.

White Women Influencing Shift to Minority-Majority Nation ...
But as she makes ends meet, working at a North Side bakery cafe while taking classes at night, Ms. Elder, 26, is a member of a little-known, declining demographic in the Chicago area: non-Hispanic white children and white women of prime ...

Women officers to get permanent commission now
NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court on Friday in a unanimous judgement ordered the Indian Air Force and Army to grant permanent commission to women officers.

Too few women in U.N. climate jobs? Ban names 19-man panel ...
A women's group is criticising the United Nations for gender bias after picking only men to a 19-strong panel to come up with ideas on financing the fight against climate change.

Can't take back retired women officers: Air force, army
NEW DELHI - The Delhi High Court Friday directed the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force (IAF) to reinstate the over 50 women officers who petitioned against the denial of Permanent Commission but the two forces said this would be well ...

Women feel more guilt than men
NEW YORK - No wonder why you were hating yourself so much after forgetting your wedding anniversary date while your hubby was blissfully guilt-free: According to experts, women feel racked with guilt more often than men.

Women on the Pill live longer
LONDON - Women who use the oral contraceptive pill can expect to live longer, say researchers.

Development and Maasai women – Baraza
I found the position and responsibilities of women to be really interesting. In their patriarchal society tradition is very important and it is no secret that, as a woman reported, “Masai despise women”. Men are in charge, ...

Milestone for Indian Women / ISN
India's upper house of parliament passes an historic bill empowering women politicians, but the struggle is not over,, and some analysts question whether this will lead to empowerment or entrapment, Harsh V Pant comments for ISN ...

Milestone for Indian Women / ISN
These women volunteers, many of whom have since died, paid for their own pilot training and served the military during the early years of World War II in hopes of joining the military. They tested and ferried aircraft, freeing men for ...