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South Africa, women in stable relationships more prone to HIV

In Cape Town, South Africa there has been reported a large number of women infected with HIV and AIDS in stable relationships. Numerous independent studies on HIV and AIDS have found many cases in South Africa where women who practice monogamy in relationships and remain faithful to their partners have nonetheless become infected with HIV. [...]

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Nepal, women fast and pray for their husbands

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 daylong fast praying for the long life of their [...]

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More women needed in State posts!

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 been recorded as compared to the previous year. As Mr. Fahey says, ‘I [...]

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Women ‘under-represented’ in boardrooms

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 Women in the Workplace Agency (EOWA), shows there has been only incremental improvement in the number of women board directors since the [...]

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20′s women in US surpasses men in minting money

It’s all about women power these days. Well I am not a staunch feminist as such, but it definitely is a feel good factor when women all across the world are heading towards a common goal and proving their mettle. According to a survey carried out by a demographer Andrew A. Beveridge, of the Department [...]

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Are women cattle: pooh poohing anti-dowry laws

I repeat, The Count your master’s known munificence Is ample warrant that no just pretence Of mine for dowry will be disallowed; Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowed At starting is my object. My Last Duchess These lines tell us more about dowry than any drier article ever can. There are a few [...]

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UN report on Darfur mass rapes demands justice

Darfur women have suffered agony and humiliation for being from the land of the Janjaweed. They have been raped and physically assaulted several times to threaten them and their clan. What a pity the government is siding away from such allegations? Women in Darfur have been subject to agony only because they are females that [...]

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Ashaiman women vow nude protest

Ashaiman women have vowed to march nude and sleep with the Deputy Prime Minster of Local Government & Rural Development, Maxwell Kofi Jumah. This is in protest of the Ashaiman-Adenta municipality’s decision to make Adenta the capital of Ashaiman. Yaa Asantewah, Queen Mother of Ejisu had once resisted white rule with her band of Ghanaian [...]

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After 100 years women the world over still struggling for equality

On 8 March 1908 female garments workers in USA took to the Manhattan streets protesting against gender discrimination demanding equal pay, better working conditions, childcare centers and right to vote. Since then, this day has been looked upon as one of the first mass protests by women right groups and after a hundred years, we [...]

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Feminist Cities- Cities with a large amount of feminists

Women, time and again, have proved that they are no less than men. Women, in every walk of life, have been rubbing shoulders with their male counterparts these days. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Sheila Bair (Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.), Indra Nooyi (Chief executive, PepsiCo), Gina Trapani (Author, Google Wave), Ruth Zorates (Founder, twitteranalyzer.com), [...]

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