Thursday, January 12, 2012

Women's Views on News

Women's Views on News

Sterilized North Carolina women to receive compensation

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Summary of story from The Daily Mail, January 11, 2011 Women in North Carolina who were sterilized against their will are at last to receive compensation. Over 7,600 women were forcibly sterilised between 1929 and 1974. In August 2011, a task force created by Governor Beverly Perdue, pictured, recommended that the surviving victims be compensated, but was [...]

Rabbi says women can’t command police

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Summary of story from ynetnews, January 11, 2011 A rabbi in Israel caused a row at an official police ceremony when he commented that women were unfit to command a police station, as it was a "masculine role". Ashdod, the sixth largest city in Israel, was hosting a change of command ceremony at the city's [...]

Mumbai sees dramatic rise in rape cases

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Summary of story from Indian Express, January 11, 2011 The Indian city of Mumbai has suffered a blow in its campaign to become a place that is safe for women, with a sharp rise in rape cases reported last year. Mumbai Police records show that not only was there a 14 per cent increase of rape [...]

Almost half of women drug addicts in Pakistan well educated

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Summary of story from Dawn, January 11, 2011 A survey of 500 women carried out by the Ministry of Narcotics Control in Pakistan has revealed that 47 percent of women drug addicts are college or university graduates. Women in major cities, including Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar, were surveyed. According to the research, the drug most predominantly [...]

Women experts barred from gynecology conference in Israel

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Summary of story from International Business Times, January 11, 2011 A conference focusing on gynecological advancements in Israel has barred women experts from speaking at the gathering. The conference, being held at the Puah Institute for Medicine, in Jerusalem, will cover such topics as "ovary implants," "how to choose a suitable contraceptive pill," “dietary supplements [...]

Focus on men paying for trafficked sex

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Summary of story from BBCNews, January 11, 2011 Men in Northern Ireland suspected of purchasing sex from women who may have been trafficked are to be visited by the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). Detective Superintendent Philip Marshall of the PSNI said that police had identified several organised crime gangs who were currently being [...]

Legacy of number one kick-ass teenage campaigner

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Summary of story from Huffington Post, January 10, 2012 In a list of history's top five “kick-ass” teenage women, compiled in acknowledgement of Joan of Arc's 600th birthday, Canada’s national public broadcaster CBC’s George Strombolopolous gave the top spot to Shannen Koostachin. Koostachin is relatively unknown, certainly compared to the other names on the list, [...]

Nepal’s first woman elephant driver

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Summary of story from Republica, January 10, 2012 Meena Chaudhury, Nepal’s first female mahout, has spoken about her pride at being one of the few women in Asia working as an elephant driver. Chaudhury has joined the team of mahouts responsible for taking tourists on elephant-back safaris of the Chitwan national park. She was selected [...]

New book explores black female identity

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Summary of story from Huffington Post, January 10, 2012 Speaking in an interview on American TV program the ‘Colbert Report’ recently, African-American author and political analyst Melissa Harris-Perry said her new book, Sister Citizen, addresses stereotypes of black female identity. Asked which of those stereotypes most applied to herself, Harris-Perry answered "strong black woman" – [...]

Women in Trucking launches blog

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Summary of story from Truckinginfo, January 11, 2012 The Women in Trucking association is launching a blog to help its members stay connected, and to support the organisation's aims of encouraging women to pursue trucking careers and supporting them to do so. The online forum, created with support from trucking and logistics company Con-Way Inc., [...]

Poet Eleanor Ross Taylor has died, aged 91

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Summary of story from Washington Post, January 11, 2012 US poet Eleanor Ross Taylor, known for her free-form verse and depiction of the everyday experiences of women in the American South, has died at the age of 91. Taylor published her first of six poetry collections in 1960, and earned critical acclaim throughout her career. [...]

Art project addresses taboo and Saudi women’s names

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Summary of story from Arab News, January 10, 2012 Saudi Arabian artist Manal Al Dowayan has launched a project addressing a cultural norm in Saudi Arabia which perceives the act of speaking a woman's name out loud as offensive. The project is made up of large white beads on which 300 women inscribed their names during [...]

UK report says foreign women coerced into crime

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Summary of story from Express & Star, January 11, 2012 According to the UK’s Prison Reform Trust, one in seven women held in custody in England and Wales is from outside the UK, and many are serving sentences after having been coerced into or trafficked into offending - or both. A joint report published by the [...]

Why are there so few women Republicans?

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Summary of story from The Guardian, January 10, 2012 As Michele Bachmann exits from the presidential running, leaving the GOP (Grand Old Party) nomination battle between six wealthy white men, an important question needs to be asked: why aren’t there more women Republicans? Over the last summer there was genuine excitement at the possibility that [...]

Woman wins battle to prevent her photos being shared online

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Summary of story from The Independent, January 10, 2012 A woman named only as ‘AMP’ has won a landmark legal judgement forbidding anyone from sharing photographs of her online. AMP had her camera phone, containing explicit photographs of her, stolen in June 2008. Later the photographs were posted onto a Dutch website alongside a link [...]

Year of the dragon prompts Taiwan debate about gender scans

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Summary of story from The Independent, January 10, 2012 Taiwan’s birthrate dropped to the world’s lowest in 2011. The government has blamed superstition as it seems many people were waiting for the year of the dragon, which starts next week and is considered a particularly auspicious period to be born in. The country also has a [...]

Andaman Islands tribe at risk from tourist trade

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Summary of story from The Guardian, January 7, 2012 “Dance for me,” commands a policeman of the naked young woman standing before him. Her friends, naked from the waist up, begin to sway and clap for the tourist videoing the scene. A daily stream of around 130 cars and 25 buses passes through the jungle [...]

More women directors in FTSE-100 in 2011

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Summary of story from London Evening Standard, January 10, 2012 A survey has found that there are now more women working in the UK's most powerful boardrooms than ever before. In the past 12 months almost 100 women became directors of top companies in Britain. This breakthrough comes after a report from former trade and [...]