We Must Integrate Gender Quality Into Devt Agenda – Women’s Manifesto Coalition
“Ghana can only overcome poverty and enhance the quality of its human capital if it fully integrates issues of gender equality in its policy and development agenda,” KinnaLikimani, Member of the Women’s Manifesto Coalition, has said. According to her, women are misrepresented in government despite being the majority of the country’s total population. Speaking at […]
Women of Tomorrow
To celebrate the international day of the girl child, a couple of people brought together girls and boys of various secondary schools. The goal was to talk about gender inequality and its effect on women and society as well as the way forward. The girls were asked to write things that make them feel disrespected […]
Somaliland Cans Female Football Tournament As Un-Islamic
The Somaliland Women’s Football Tournament was expected to begin on Thursday in the capital Hargeisa Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland said on Thursday it had cancelled its first women’s football tournament as it fell foul of Islamic values, sparking outrage among women’s rights groups. The Somaliland Women’s Football Tournament, featuring six female teams representing Somaliland’s […]
Knightley Says Film ‘Misbehaviour’ Highlights Battle For Equality
Keira Knightley said her new film “Misbehaviour”, the true story of how the Women’s Liberation Movement disrupted the 1970 Miss World competition, felt relevant at a time when people were still fighting for equal treatment. Knightley, 34, plays a member of the Women’s Liberation Movement, which storms the stage of the London theatre where […]
AW Gist : The Change Agents
This is about picturing the realities in our society. Just before you begin : This is a discussion between three social agents, three women involved in different social innovations who’ve been brought together to discuss the different issues they’ve solved, the different stories they’ve heard and how we all can become good influencers, good change […]
Equal Pay For Equal Play- U.S. Women Challenge Pay Inequality
Women makeup nearly half the U.S. workforce and earn more college degrees than do men each year, but they earn about 81% as much as men do Crowds have been chanting “Equal pay!” as the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team won its fourth World Cup and celebrated this week with a ticker-tape parade in New […]
It’s (still) A Man’s World As Equality Pledges Fail Women
World is way off track to meet a 2030 deadline for achieving gender equality, with not one country having reached the ‘last mile’ World leaders are failing 1.4 billion girls and women on promises of a fairer future, according to a global index launched at the world’s biggest gender equality conference. The research shows the […]
Gender Inequality Is Stunting Economic Progress
‘Do not let us off the hook; keep our feet to the fire’. These were the words of the UN Secretary General Mr. Antonio Guterres when he promised to personally lead the global body towards greater gender equality. As the world observes the start of 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence today 26 November […]
Gender Inequality Is Beyond Feelings
In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was adopted by the United States Constitution, and the lives of American women fundamentally changed. The right to vote didn’t just give women a voice in government, but a voice in society, and each year on August 26th, Women’s Equality Day, we take stock of how far we’ve come. Looking […]
Women Short-Changed On Commercial Land Deals In Africa
Land in Africa is often communally held, with fathers assumed to be the rightful owners who usually pass it on to their sons Women are often short-changed compared to men when communities are compensated or resettled during commercial land deals in Africa, and governments should take action to rectify that, researchers said on Tuesday. The […]
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