Women World Wide

• Asia One: Spastic Children's Association drops 'spastic' in new name – June 19, 2013
  The Spastic Children’s Association of Singapore has changed its name to the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Singapore. It is the latest charity serving the disabled to re-brand itself with a more politically correct name.
• patheos: Victims, criminals, heroines: Indonesian domestic workers in Singapore – June 19, 2013
  The mainstream media in Singapore represents these workers as either helpless ‘victims’ of oppressive employers and local laws, or as exercising agency as deviant ‘criminals’ or ‘heroines’.
• International Business Times: ‘Anti-pervert’ hairy stockings are China’s latest fashion trend – June 19, 2013
  By employing so-called “anti-pervert” stockings meant to simulate the appearance of extremely hairy legs, the women reportedly hope to stave off unwanted male attention.
• Telegraph: Nigella Lawson: yes, it can happen to her – June 19, 2013
  Images of Charles Saatchi apparently throttling Nigella Lawson challenge our clichéd ideas about domestic violence, says Anna Maxted
• The Online Citizen: “Plead for Mercy” advocates for single parents – June 18, 2013
  The strenuous circumstances under which single parents live and raise their families are the result of “discriminatory policies” which “do not even recognize them as family [nuclei]”, in the words of Mr Leong Sze Hian, the third and last speaker of the day.
• The Telegraph: Pakistan's only female fighter pilot is ready for war – June 18, 2013
  Farooq, from Punjab province’s historic city of Bahawalpur, is one of 19 women who have become pilots in the Pakistan Air Force over the last decade.
• Reuters: Afghan women lose political power as fears grow – June 18, 2013
  A legal requirement that women make up at least a quarter of all provincial elected officials was quietly removed by conservative male parliamentarians, officials said.
• Huffington Post: A Global Goal on Gender Equality, Women's Rights – June 18, 2013
  In a new post-2015 development agenda, we must build on the achievements of the MDGs while avoiding their shortcomings.
• NZ Herald News: Pregnancy flight-ban 'discrimination' – June 18, 2013
  The total ban on women flying in the late stages of pregnancy is discrimination and not backed by evidence, says a NZ researcher.
• NYTimes.com: Japan’s ‘Science Women’ seek an identity – June 17, 2013
  Japanese women who studied the humanities were seen as being more polished and attractive, especially at Aoyama Gakuin University, which is known for its fashionable student body. “But the image of women in science is that of someone whose hair is disheveled and who does not care about beauty. Men think you are not cute.”
• Ynetnews: Egyptian man disguised as woman is harassed – June 17, 2013
  Bold experiment sheds light on testing daily experience of women on streets of Cairo as both tradition of patriarchy, political turmoil take toll on social climate
• WSJ.com: Norway to draft women into armed forces – June 17, 2013
  Saying it has the highest per capita defense budget in Europe, Norway aims to double the number of women as a percentage of personnel in its armed forces by the end of the decade, in an attempt to lay a template for other nations on the issue of equality in the military.
• CNN.com: Get used to women or 'get out,' Australia's army chief says – June 17, 2013
  Faced with a sex scandal in his ranks, the chief of Australia’s army delivered a blunt message to his troops: Treat your female comrades properly or "get out."
• The Online Citizen: What fathers say on Father’s Day – June 17, 2013
  To mark Father’s Day, AWARE invited three fathers to give their views of the newly introduced paternity leave and conversion of one week of maternity leave to shared parental leave.
• The Washington Post: Taylor Swift’s feminist doppelganger takes off on Twitter – June 17, 2013
  Taylor Swift is not a feminist. But Clara Beyer is, and she loves Taylor Swift’s music and sometimes she wishes Swift would change her twangy tune and be a little more progressive. On June 11, the Alexandria native, a rising senior at Brown University, tweeted: “Idea for a single purpose twitter: feminist Taylor Swift.”

 
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