Studies show that the Pacific Islands region is among the worst performing in the world for women's representation in parliaments. An official stated that The Pacific Island Forum Secretariat is to publish a book next month that analyses the...
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According to government-sponsored research, Australia’s top companies have made little progress in getting women into the boardrooms.
The 2006 Australian Census of Women in Leadership, conducted by the Federal Government's Equal Opportunity for...
Recently, it has become known that women in the U.S. military and related institutions are at significant risk of being sexually assaulted, harassed and raped, by their fellow service members.
Sexual assault survivors and their advocates have...
In Utah, the Renaissance Society, American Express and the Women's Business Center hosted a high tea at Hotel Grand America today in honor and celebration of Renaissance Women and Visionary who made a difference.
Renaissance Awards was also...
Recent research done by U.S. scientists suggested for the first time that a woman's weight could affect the course of the disease. And in here, the disease refers to Ovarian Cancer.
The research was reportedly the first to identify weight as an...
Experts from the British Fertility Society are of the view that severely overweight women should be denied access to free fertility treatment in England and Wales and obese women must lose weight before being offered the chance to try IVF.
Before...
An NGO called Prakalpa, in Orissa, India held a workshop yesterday where they discussed about the violence against women and the delay in redressal of their grievances.
Several women advocates, teachers, writers and social activists participated...
Women groups in New Delhi, India presented the recommendations to the Planning Commission, keeping gender equality and gender justice as the central goal of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan.
The recommendations have been prepared in collaboration with...
Frank Fahey, minister of State at the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform said that more women are needed in public positions to make decisions on national policies.
According to the statistical data 2%, increase in the number of women has...
Very often Sen. Barack Obama messages about the equality of women in African nations both as a matter of human rights and of economic developments. Same point he has made with both a Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai and the Kenyan equivalent...
Recent study done in New Zealand shows that the native men do not approve of women working full time after having children.
Eighty three per cent of respondents approved of married woman working full-time before they have children but only 2 per cent...
Allos Therapeutics has announced that it has completed patient enrollment in its pivotal Phase 3 ENRICH study of EFAPROXYN(TM) (efaproxiral) in women with brain metastases originating from breast cancer.
ENhancing whole brain Radiation therapy In...
Mohammed Al-Qadhi a Yemeni journalist and columnist write that the political parties have shown no support for women in the region. However, they talk about the matter in lofty speeches but nothing actually comes out of it.
He further said that...
The woman’s Hospital at Texas marks 30 years of women’s care.
It came into being in the spring of 1976, founded by a group of male doctors who brought their booming obsterics and gynecological practices to the facility outside the Texas Medical...
Women these days in Nepal are busy fasting and praying.
They could be seen clad in red thronging the streets of Nepal. This is generally the scene in the country every year at this time as devout and not-so devout Hindu women prepare to undertake a...
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Suzanne Swift, the then twenty one year old Army Specialist, was arrested for showing her reluctance in going back to fight in Iraq. She served in Iraq for a year but decided she won’t return and went AWOL. Not only did she feel the war lacked purpose, Swift said her superiors repeatedly sexually harassed her while serving in Iraq.
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