Should a woman’s testosterone level matter in sports?
Picture the lineup of athletes along a start line as they wait eagerly for the sound of the gun or gymnasts as they perform flips on a balance beam with unfathomable precision. Although tremendous skill, hard work and thousands of hours of practice are involved in them molding their bodies for sporting excellence, nature is […]
More Women in Govt, but Far From Gender Equality – Survey
The number of women in parliament in Africa has almost doubled over the past 15 years to 24% while the number of women in cabinet has grown five times in 30 years to 22%, the McKinsey & Company Women Matter Africa report revealed on Thursday. Africa has more women in parliament than the global average, […]
Women Are Crushing It At The Rio Olympics, But The Media Keeps Focusing On Their Husbands
More women are competing in Rio 2016 than any previous Olympic Games, bringing the games closer than ever to gender parity. But that doesn’t mean sexist stereotypes against female athletes are going to go away. Take Hungarian swimmer Katinka Hosszu, known as the “Iron Lady.” Hosszu shattered a world record Saturday night in the women’s […]
Female deacons? Has Francis put us on the path to a woman Pope?
Every time the Pope is cornered by the press on an aeroplane he seems to say something awkward. Remember “Who am I to judge?” – his remark about people in a homosexual relationship? This time, on the way back from a trip to Armenia, the beans he spilt were about a new commission to study […]
South Africa: Government Calls On Women to Share Their Stories During Women’s Month for Tell Her Story Campaign
Government calls on all Women to share their stories during Women’s Month for the Tell Her Story campaign using the hashtag #TellHerStory. This forms part of the 60th anniversary commemoration of the 1956 Women’s march to the Union Buildings against pass laws. The 60th anniversary of the Women’s March will be held under the theme; […]
How Your Body Can Tell If He Or She Is Really ‘The One’
On Valentine’s Day, a dating anniversary, National Girlfriends Day (August 1), any day you see a romantic comedy, or basically any day, you may be asking the following question about the person you are currently seeing, dating, engaged to or even married to: Is he or she The One? We’re not talking about Neo from The Matrix but […]
There Really Is No Difference In Intelligence Between Men And Women
A recent study compared the intelligence of men and women. But are we facing the wrong direction on this issue? Look on the Internet, on social media and in nearly any comedy club and you’ll find people saying how stupid the opposite sex is. Some web sites actually focus on why men are better than […]
The Evolutionary Reason Why Women Orgasm
Why do women have orgasms? The question has long confused scientists; after all, orgasm isn’t necessary for conception, and women can orgasm even when they’re not having reproductive sex. Now, a new study brings an interesting new theory into the mix: Women’s orgasms could be a vestige left over by evolution itself. In a literature […]
Saudi Arabia Just Created a Division for Women in Sports
In what is already shaping to be a monumental summer for Arab women in sports, Princess Reema bint Bandar Al-Saud has been officially appointed as the Vice President for Women’s Affairs of the General Sports Authority in Saudi Arabia Monday, according to the Saudi Council of Ministers. Four years ago, two Saudi women athletes, Sarah […]
Straight Women In Tanzania Marry Each Other In Order To Keep Their Houses
Straight women in Tanzania are marrying each other and even sharing beds in order to keep their houses in the absence of husbands, according to reports. A centuries-old local tradition, called ‘nyumba ntobhu’ or ‘house of women’, has been given a modern revival by members of the Kurya tribe in remote villages in the north […]
Gambia Criminalises Child Marriage
The Gambia has criminalised the practice of child marriage after Lawmakers on Thursday unanimously passed into law the Children Act Amendment Bill 2016. The Bill followed a pronouncement made by the President last month that banned child and forced marriages in the country. In tabling the Bill before the Lawmakers, the Attorney General and Minister […]
Vaginal Ring A Game-Changer in HIV Protection?
I awoke on the morning 18th July 2016 excited to attend my first International AIDS Conference. While this was the 21st International AIDS Conference, I had no idea what to expect. Neither had I ever heard of microbicides. That is until I met Anna Miti on the shuttle from the airport to conference. She invited […]
Our Generation will See Healthcare in Africa on Par with the Rest of the World
Packed securely inside the boxes in the picture above was a new mammography system, being ferried upstream from the Port of Lamu in Kenya, where I traveled last month, to a small rural town, where women were in need of access to screening. Every patient everywhere in the world deserves such access. But the boxes […]
Poverty and Inequality Reduction has Remained Less Responsive to Growth Successes Across the Continent, Says AfDB African Development Report 2015
African economies have grown substantially over the past decade, but poverty and inequality reduction has remained less responsive to growth successes across the continent, says the 2015 edition of the African Development Bank (AfDB)’s African Development Report, that was officially launched on 26 July 2016 at the Bank’s headquarters in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire by the AfDB […]
Forced Sterilisation and Other Rights Violations of HIV Positive Women Must End, Urges Graça Machel
Graça Machel has called for an end to impunity for violations of the rights of women living with HIV, such as forced sterilisation. The former first lady of Mozambique and South Africa was chairing a debate at the International AIDS Conference in Durban last week. She said the international community must develop a new sense […]