Blogs Posts in Challenges and Problems category; 97 blog posts

Help Women Take the Stage

Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, has been speaking out a lot lately about subtle dynamics that hold women back from reaching senior roles in business. Her TED talk and Barnard commencement speech went viral. Lean in, she says to women, t [...]

Posted On : Feb, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

First-ever KP women entrepreneurs trade fair begins

The first-ever inter-provincial trade fair of the women entrepreneurs of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has begun here in a local hotel on Saturday. The basic objective of the two-day trade fair held under the auspices of Women Business Development C [...]

Posted On : Jun, 27 2011 | Comments : 0

Around world, fewer women die in childbirth

The rate at which women die in childbirth or soon after delivery has fallen by about 40 percent since 1980, with dramatic reductions in the populous nations of India, China, Brazil and Egypt. Maternal mortality is a key gauge of a popula [...]

Posted On : Apr, 14 2010 | Comments : 0

Women's careers still takes backseat

Women might be on a more even footing at work but at home their careers tend to take a backseat to their husband's job with women most likely to quit when both are working long hours, according to a US study. Researcher Youngjoo Cha, [...]

Posted On : Apr, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

Quebec's veil ban will 'isolate' women

Barring women who wear the niqab from receiving government services or an education will chase them out of universities and the workplace and into the shadows, Muslim groups charged Thursday. "It will isolate them more and more and [...]

Posted On : Apr, 01 2010 | Comments : 0

Quebec Gets Support Of Major Canadian Political Parties In B...

Quebec’s proposed ban on the niqab – the veil covering the face of Muslim women – has united the two major political parties in Canada on at least one issue. Both the Conservative Party and the Liberal Party are b [...]

Posted On : Mar, 29 2010 | Comments : 0

Nearly 50 percent women marry before turning 18!

Child marriage continues to remain a big problem in the country, with half the women getting married before attaining the minimum legal marriageable age of 18 years, according to a study released by Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad here [...]

Posted On : Feb, 22 2010 | Comments : 0

The burqa ban

In a report to parliament, French lawmakers have called for a partial ban on the burqa and proposed that it should be outlawed at public places including buses, schools and hospitals. If the suggestions are indeed converted into law, a w [...]

Posted On : Jan, 28 2010 | Comments : 0

What's in a headscarf - France mulls ban

PARIS - Conservative Muslim women cover their hair in an array of fashions -- French members of parliament are keen to outlaw some of them. Muslim women are not alone in concealing their hair -- ultra-Orthodox Jewish women wear head [...]

Posted On : Jan, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

Kashmir women were not murdered says Indian report

The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told the high court in Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir that the women drowned in a canal. The families of the women told the court that the CBI had hushed up the case to protect the gu [...]

Posted On : Dec, 14 2009 | Comments : 0

Women in parliament work harder - study

Despite that hard work, the research has also found women MPs continue to be criticised for their image, rather than their performance. The researcher, former federal Labor MP Mary Crawford, says the situation will not change until more wo [...]

Posted On : Nov, 06 2009 | Comments : 0

Nicole Kidman speaks out about violence against women; plus ...

While testifying before a House subcommittee hearing on violence against women, actress Nicole Kidman conceded that Hollywood has "probably" contributed to violence against women by portraying them as weak sex objects, the Associa [...]

Posted On : Oct, 22 2009 | Comments : 0

Feeling hopeless ups stroke risk in women

Writing in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association, the researchers have revealed that even healthy middle-aged women, when feeling hopeless, seem to experience the thickening of arteries in the neck, a precursor to stroke. Linki [...]

Posted On : Aug, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

Women - Afghanistan women outraged at proposed family planni...

A few days after the Taliban were toppled in 2001 I was in Kabul. The city was jubilant and full of hope for the future, and I remember talking to some laughing teenage girls in the street. One was excited because she could now go back to [...]