Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Women's Views on News

Women's Views on News

Male receptionists in vogue in the City

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Jackie Gregory WVoN co-editor There has been an increase in men working as receptionists in London, the Evening Standard reports. Five years ago there were virtually no male receptionists in the City. Now a fifth are male. It is  an article which begs more questions than it answers. Apparently “the recession has helped remove the [...]

Creator of fine china tableware dies, aged 105

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Summary of story from The Telegraph, January 9, 2012 One of the world’s best-known ceramic designers and creator of fine china tableware has died aged 105. Eva Zeisel survived two of the most oppressive tyrannies of the 20th century to pursue her life’s work. As a young Hungarian Jew, she had been imprisoned in the [...]

Women row across Atlantic to help combat child trafficking

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Jackie Gregory WVoN co-editor Battling waves of 30ft high and facing a gruelling 3,000 mile trip, a group of female rowers are racing across the Atlantic Ocean to raise cash to combat human trafficking. The team 'Row for Freedom' set off a month ago from the Canary Islands in the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge and [...]

Woman survives bungee jump cord failure

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Summary of story from AlJazeera, January 9, 2012 An Australian woman on holiday in Africa survived a terrifying ordeal as the cord snapped while she was bungee jumping in Zimbabwe, near the Victoria Falls. Erin Langworthy, 22, plunged into the crocodile-infested waters of the Zambezi River when her bungee cord snapped as she rebounded from the 111m [...]

Afghan girl wants her tormentors imprisoned

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Summary of story from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, January 9, 2012 As Sahar Gul, a 15-year-old Afghan newlywed, recovers from severe trauma in hospital in Afghanistan she asks only that the people who tortured her be put in prison. Gul was near death when she was rescued two weeks ago after allegedly being tortured by [...]

Change in the way we look – at ourselves?

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Summary of story from The Independent, January 9, 2012 It's time to drop the artifice, writes Mary Ann Sieghart, and get real. Airbrushing, surgery and shop mannequins (usually of Barbie proportions) have created an ideal of women which is physically unattainable. The chances of any real live woman having that Barbie shape are less than [...]

Rise in birth defects in Fallujah linked to US weapons

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Summary of story from Aljazeera, January 6, 2012 Doctors and residents of Fallujah in Iraq are blaming weapons used during US attacks to describe “catastrophic” levels of birth defects and abnormalities. Almost 700 birth defects have been recorded in Fallujah since October 2009. Dr Samira Alani, a paediatric specialist at Fallujah General Hospital, has been [...]

Tear gas invades homes in Bahrain as protests intensify

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Summary of story from France 24, January 6, 2012 Protests against the ruling Sunni monarchy in Bahrain are continuing, and the police now appear to be bombarding protestors and locals alike with tear gas – in increasing intensity. Residents report that the tear gas being used against the protesters is seeping into their homes and [...]

A regular glass of red wine can reduce risk of breast cancer

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Summary of story from The Daily Mail, January 9, 2012 According to a new medical study women who enjoy a regular glass of red wine could reduce their risk of breast cancer. This new evidence challenges the common belief that all alcohol increases the body's oestrogen levels, therefore enabling the growth of cancer cells. The [...]

South Ossetia’s Alla Dzhioyeva sparks public movement

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Summary of story from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, January 9, 2012 Alla Dzhioyeva, the former Ossetian education minister, has become the figurehead of an emerging public movement in South Ossetia, a tiny pro-Russian region that declared its independence from Georgia in 1990. Dzhioyeva ran for presidency alongside emergency situations minister Anatoly Bibilov, the preferred candidate [...]

Legal right to property given to women in northwest Pakistan

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Summary of story from RFE/RL, January 9, 2012 A law making it illegal for parents not to give property rights to female family members has been passed in a region of northwest Pakistan. Under Shari'a law, the standard followed by the province's government, a daughter should receive half as much property as her brother. The [...]

Female photography platform celebrates first birthday

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Summary of story from The Guardian, January 6, 2012 An online platform supporting European female photographers is celebrating its first birthday this January. Firecracker was founded by Fiona Rogers and acts as an archive for females in the industry by 'showcasing their work in a series of monthly online gallery features'. Rogers is the education [...]

New BBC drama tells story of East End midwife-nuns in 1960s

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Summary of story from The Daily Mail, January 6, 2012 The BBC is to screen a dramatization of the work undertaken by Anglican nuns in the squalid East End of London in the 1960s. The nuns of St John the Devine rode their bikes, and later their mopeds, around their eight mile patch of east [...]

Faulty implant scandal spreads to men

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Summary of story from The Independent, January 6, 2012 Former employees of the French company at the centre of the breast implant scandal are alleging that they also made false testicles and implants for male chests. The claims were made in French newspaper Le Parisien last Thursday. The revelations have raised further concerns over the [...]

Another haredi arrested for sexual harassment

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Summary of story from Ynet News, January 8 2012 Another ultra-Orthodox Jewish man has been arrested and charged with harassment in Jerusalem. Ze'ev Frank, 29, allegedly spat on a woman and called her a 'slut' in the neighbourhood of Mea Shearim last Thursday. The Jerusalem District Prosecutor's Office filed the sexual harassment charge on Sunday. [...]

Countess of Wessex accepts jewels from Bahrain’s rulers

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Summary of story from The Daily Mail, January 8, 2012 The Countess of Wessex is under fire after accepting jewels from the ruling family of Bahrain. Two sets of jewels were accepted by the Countess, the wife of Prince Edward, during an official visit to the Arab country on behalf of the Queen in December. [...]