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• China’s Gender Gap Reaches from Rural Areas to Cities

  
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  A recent report found that China is home to the highest number of female self-made entrepreneurs in the world. While this is certainly good news for those entrepreneurs, it does not give a complete picture of the complicated realities faced by both rural and urban women in China. Leta Hong-Fincher writes in the New ...
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• IRAN: National conservative clerics move to sanction women from presidential bids

  
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  WNN Justice – Iran (WNN/AI) Tehran, IRAN, CENTRAL ASIA: Iran’s ban on female presidential candidates contradicts several articles of the country’s Constitution as well as international law and should be removed, says human rights advocates Amnesty International. Thirty women have registered to stand as ...
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• EVAW Law to protect women & girls in Afghanistan stalled in Parliament

  
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  WNN Breaking (WNN) Kabul, AFGHANISTAN, CENTRAL ASIA: Going in what numerous human rights organizations say is a ‘giant step backwards’, the Lower Afghan Parliament, known as the Wolesi Jirga, has been debating the reversal of a protective law called the EVAW – Elimination Against Violence Women Law. This Law was ...
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• Open Thread–5/20/2013

  
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  Yesterday, I intended to nap during the day, but I could not.  They were doing maintenance on the building all afternoon and evening, causing the power to go out over and over again.  Each time it does, it sets off an alarm on my O2 system that wakes me up, so I could not sleep [...]
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• Right-Wing Radio Host Wants to Shoot Hillary Clinton in Her Vagina

  
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  It’s pretty clear that Republicans are taking shots at Hillary Clinton in lieu of her possible presidential run in 2016. I know it’s only 2013 and we’re a long way away from the next presidential election. But, when you’ve lost two election cycles back to back as Republicans have, to a black guy with a ...
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• The Imperfect Storm – The GOP, Obama and the Bored D.C. Media

  
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  Scandal .  It’s a much misused word in American politics these days, especially by Republicans looking to distract from the news cycles that have excoriated their policies that have been the root of gridlock in the doing of the people’s business. It has been misused by a national news media gleefully tossing ...
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• Street Harassment: It’s Not a Compliment

  
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  It’s spring. As temperatures continue to rise, I’m impelled to think about the crude comments women are assailed by, as they walk down the street in the summer finery they waited all season to wear. Street harassment is a daily occurrence experienced by women  all over the world  who navigate open, shared ...
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• Yahoo Increases Maternity Leave, but U.S. Still Hates Working Moms

  
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  A common refrain to explain the disparity of pay between women and men is that women leave to have babies. These babies grow up to be children, causing more stresses on women in terms of childcare and work/life balance (because apparently only women are supposed to juggle these things). Many women choose career paths ...
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• [round-up] Monday feminist round-up (20th May 2013)

  
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  All else this week, then. - Think Progress updates on US college campuses which are starting to combat high rates of rape, and rape culture, on campus . It’s not so many, alas. - Bitch has got an interesting piece on women-only comedy spaces . - sianandcrookedrib discusses the shaming of single mothers on ...
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• [link] Teenage pregnancies won’t be stopped by shaming young mothers

  
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  On commentisfree : Teenage pregnancy. The term still sends terror shooting through my veins, even now, seven years clear of my teens. It hung over me like a sceptre, whispering: “Whatever you do, don’t get yourself pregnant.” It was the worst thing. The end of everything. This idea, that teenage pregnancy ...
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• Prosperity Is In Womens Equality/Education

  
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  The lady pictured above is journalist Christiane Amanpour. She has brought us the truth from wars and disasters around the world, and now has her own CNN show called Amanpour . I dont think there is any journalist that I trust more than Ms. Amanpour. She recently wrote an open letter to the "Girls of the World" as ...
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• Islam Not so Great for Women: Wahhabist fighters in Syria Rape Women and Girls as War Prisoners its Called ‘Jihad al-Nikah,’

  
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  Allah permits you to shut them in separate rooms and to beat them, but not severely. If they abstain, they have the right to food and clothing. Treat women well for they are like domestic animals and they possess nothing themselves. Allah has made the enjoyment of their bodies lawful in his Quran. Tabari IX:113 ...
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• Warren Buffett Says Women are the Key to Fixing the Economy

  
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  Who wrote these words? The moment I emerged from my mother’s womb…my possibilities dwarfed those of my siblings, for I was a boy! And my brainy, personable, and good-looking siblings were not. My parents would love us equally, and our teachers would give us similar grades. But at every turn my sisters would be ...
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• CFI’s Ronald Lindsay Learns How NOT To Encourage Women In Secularism

  
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  Ronald A. Lindsay – President & CEO Center for Inquiry The second Women in Secularism Conference was held in Washington, DC this weekend. The conference is a response to the struggle inside secular groups to reach out and encourage more participation by women. There has been a vocal minority of mostly men who ...
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• Women, Not Things

  
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  In the context of the brutal raping and murder last year of a 23-year old women on a bus to the disgusting rape of a 5-year girl more recently in India, the Wall Street Journal (17 May 2013) has an article on "To Wed Your Rapist, or Not: Indian Women on Trial." It is an eye-opening article about the prejudices ...
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• Women Role in Development of Pakistani Rural Communities

  
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  Women are playing a major role for the developmental changein rural communities in Pakistan. But unfortunately their work is not regardedas productive, organized and documented all over the world.... For More Details, Please Visit:www.PakistanHotline.com
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• [infographic] Pregnancy and childbirth primary killer of 15-19 year old girls in developing countries

  
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  From upworthy : In many developing countries, having more children at younger ages acts as a safety net as parents age. However, when girls as young as 15 (and younger) are getting married and getting pregnant, there can be serious physical consequences. Pregnancy and childbirth are the #1 killers of girls aged 15-19 ...
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• Sunday Reads: You got the stuff?

  
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  Good Morning! Oh yeah…I got the stuff! Plenty of things for you today, so much that I have decided to break this post up into two…one for the morning…one for the early afternoon. First some headlines: Police Say Officer Mistakenly Killed Hofstra Student in Hostage Standoff A 21-year-old Hofstra ...
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• [link] Hey ladies, don’t leave it too late! On First Response and manufactured fertility panic

  
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  That piece I just linked to about shaming women into having their babies when they’re, I don’t know, aged 20-24 or something ? It’s all about this: Get Britain Fertile . I wish I was kidding. Get Britain Fertile looks like it’s all sponsored by First Response (just in case you thought there wasn’t going ...
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• [link] Why society still needs feminism

  
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  Lots of becauses here. Every one of them true. On timesdelphic : Because to men, a key is a device to open something. For women, it’s a weapon we hold between our fingers when we’re walking alone at night. Because the biggest insult for a guy is to be called a “pussy,” a “little bitch” or a “girl.” ...
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