The 25 Most Influential Latin Women according to People.com (1)
9/01/10 •
Share People.com (en Espanol) has recently published a list of the 25 Most Influential Latin Women. Not surprisingly, the majority of the women have the background in media: tv, radio, pop scene. On the list are among others: the actress and breast cancer survivor ADAMARI LÓPEZ the actress and singer LUCERO the actress and – [...]
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The gender pay gap in UK stubbornly persists – the report by Women and Work Commission (1)
9/01/10 •
Share We are in Europe, year 2010. And even if it seems that a lot has been made to remove the gender gap at the workplaces, the newly published report made by Women and Work Commission in UK says: that “The gender pay gap stubbornly persists despite monumental changes in women’s position in the workplace [...]
“Women’s courage is a disgrace to that of modern men” – the genesis of the phenomena of female suicide bombers (0)
6/06/10 •
Share “A male suicide bomber is promised 72 virgins in paradise, but how do you recruit a woman for death?… Across the Islamic world, the “honour’ of a family is the ‘honour’ of its women… A woman who has sex before marriage or is raped brings shame on her family. Many of the young women [...]
The Mosaic of Womanity – by Thierry Mugler/Clarins Fragrance Group (1)
6/06/10 •
Share Launched in March 2010 Womanity is a new concept by Thierry Mugler in collaboration with Clarins Fragrance Group in collaboration with Microsoft’s MSN launched as a major campaign. Womanity.com is a crowd-based media platform to exchange the thoughts and ideas about being a woman. The site has a form of a mosaic composed of the [...]
“Everybody has a chance to be who you really want to be” – Francesca Schiavone wins French Open 2010 (1)
6/06/10 •
Share This victory was unexpected. Francesca Schiavone, the 30-years old Italian tennis player, for 2 weeks ago still 17th best female tennis player in the world, won it all after the best women’s final in nearly a decade at Roland Garros. “Everybody has the chance to be who you really want to be, and do [...]
Sex and The City 2 full of cultural clichés (1)
6/06/10 •
Share ‘Sex and The City 2′ is in the movies now, and the critics are already divided in their views on the film. I found this review on change.org written by Sarah Menkedick, according to whom the movie is full of cultural clichés. The greatest thing about Sex and the City in its prime was [...]
Fake boyfriends and Hidden Marriage Groups – Chinese women forced to lie about their marital status (1)
4/09/10 •
Share A completely unbelievable article has been written by Christina Campbell at change.org: In China, single women are hiring fake boyfriends to fool their families into thinking they’re on the marriage-and-mommy track. But don’t you think that married women have it any easier. They have to hide their real husbands to fool their bosses into [...]
The report: ‘I Can’t Afford Justice – Violence against women in Uganda’ (0)
4/09/10 •
Share As we read at allAfrica.com, Amnesty International has urged the Ugandan authorities to provide support for women seeking justice for sexual and domestic violence in a new report released today highlighting the barriers faced by the victims. “I Can’t Afford Justice – Violence against women in Uganda” documents the economic and social obstacles to [...]
“The Hidden World of Girls” – the documentary radio series by The Kitchen Sisters (1)
4/08/10 •
Share The award winning duo of documentary radio producers, Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva – known under the name of The Kitchen Sisters – are launching the new documentary radio series called: ‘The Hidden World of Girls’. The series is described as the ‘stories of coming of age, rituals and rites of passage, secret identities—of [...]
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor about the gender-gap in the workforce (1)
4/08/10 •
Share Following the World Economic Forum Gender Gap Report, I found this very interesting interview with professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter from Harvard Business School (recorded by Harvard Business Review), who comments on the gender gap and explains why women’s compensation and advancement to the highest ranks have failed to keep pace with their impressive inroads [...]
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