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Classes for boys to end female violence
Sydney :: Australia | about 7 hours ago
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Education, calls for teachers to be trained in gender, violence and sexual health, the Herald Sun newspaper says. Boys could also act out scenes of sexual coercion so they could better understand the issue. The VicHealth report said the education programs...
Tags: Australia, Sydney, Education, Gender role, Morrissey, Feminism, Sexism, Gender studies
16 days to fight violence towards women
Bern :: Switzerland | about 14 hours ago
Credibility The drive also aims to fight what it calls less visible, but more widespread types of abuse, such as discrimination and the pay gap between the sexes. More than 60 organisations and associations have signed up for the "16 days against violence against...
Tags: Switzerland, domestic violence, Karin Haeberli, Amanda Weibel, Bern, Social Issues, Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, Feminism, Violence against women, Violence, Family therapy
GENDER: For U.S., Lessons in CEDAW From San Francisco
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 20 hours ago
Credibility An ordinance was passed, and now, more than a decade later, San Francisco is reflecting on their success in reforming the city's government agencies, and taking on a push for change in the local private sector...The Department of Environment went from...
Tags: San Francisco SAN FRANCISCO, CEDAW, U.S, Emily Murase, Krishanti Dharmaraj, Department of Environment, Ann Lehman, city departments, San Francisco, Women's rights, Human rights instruments, Social Issues, Discrimination law, Feminism, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Men's groups are fine by me, sister | Jennie Agg
Mens :: France | 1 day ago
Credibility Men's groups are fine by me, sister The new crop of male-specific student societies aren't an affront to feminism. Men need their own space to tackle gender issues I realise I am walking willingly into the snares of the toxic sisterhood by admitting...
Tags: France, Mens, Interdisciplinary fields, Gender studies, Sexism, Masculinity, Feminism, Gender, Sociology, Men, Social Issues, Education, Feminist movement, Men and feminism, Pro-feminism, Feminist theory, Civil rights and liberties, Social theories
Research into song lyrics about sexual violence
Cambridge :: United Kingdom | 2 days ago
Credibility Back in 1962, the Crystals released a song called He Hit Me (And it Felt like a Kiss) . "If he didn't care for me," warbled one of the most popular American "girl groups" of the day, "I could have never made him mad.
Tags: sexual violence, Tori Amos, domestic violence, United Kingdom, Cambridge, Rape, Kiss with a Fist, Entertainment Culture, Violence, Feminism, Social Issues
INDIA: Women’s Political Empowerment, Yes; Better Lives, No
India :: Gambia | 2 days ago
Credibility Despite getting suitably politically empowered, the Indian fair sex continues to lag behind on almost all crucial developmental parametres like education, health and economic participation. So why isn't women�s political empowerment�a fact acknowledged...
Tags: Indian Parliament, India Gender Gap Review, Communist Party of India, Dr Shiva, political empowerment, better living, Gambia, India, Brinda Karat, Gender, Vandana Shiva, Asmita Resource Centre for Women, Women in India, Global Gender Gap Report, Feminism, Social Issues
Women's rights: why too much of a good thing is bad for you
London :: United Kingdom | 4 days ago
Credibility Only a brave man would dare to utter any of these ideas but in the past few weeks they have all poured forth — from women. They form the basis of an increasingly fierce debate about gender roles in 21st-century Britain, conducted largely without input...
Tags: Baroness Deech, maternity leaves, Jill Berry, divorced rate, Cristina Odone, United Kingdom, London, Newspaper editors, Ruth Deech Baroness Deech, Harriet Harman, Feminism, Women's rights, Gender studies, Civil rights and liberties, Social Issues
Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape
Feminists, political, and activist' writers present their ideas for a paradigm shift from the "No Means No" model approach to an overhaul today. Yes Means Yes!, compiled and edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti, present a variety of perspectives...
Tags: women and sex, rape in the u.s., female sexuality, sex education, women and body image, sexual identity, Violence, Feminism, Sex crimes, Crimes, Rape, Social Issues, Female Sexual Power
The future of Iranian feminism
Tehrān :: Iran | 6 days ago
Credibility That she and 140 others, who were arrested recently, have now been released has been interpreted as a response to growing criticism, voiced even among the clergy, of the violent methods employed by the regime. According to a conservative estimate, ten...
Tags: Iran, Tehrān, Islamic history, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Women's rights movement in Iran, Iranian Revolution, Feminism, Politics, Feminist movement, Islam and women, Shadi Sadr, Hossein Derakhshan, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Politics of Iran, Year of birth missing, Social Issues, Age of Enlightenment, Islamic fundamentalism, Enlightenment, Philosophe, Islamism, Criticism of Islam, Pascal Bruckner, Fundamentalism, Liberalism, Australian Greens, Anti-globalization, Environmentalism, Green politics
160: Gloria Steinem
New York City :: NY :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility Who Has Sympathy for Ruth Madoff? [Polls] Best Known As: Political Figure Gist: Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist icon, journalist, and social and political activist. Rising to national prominence as a feminist leader...
Tags: Gloria Steinem Stories, Gloria Marie Steinem, New York City, National Women's Political Caucus, Address to the Women of America, Second-wave feminism, Bella Abzug, Women's Action Alliance, Feminism, Gloria Steinem, Betty Friedan, Social Issues
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