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Our Urgent Need for Gender Sensitive Reporting
Written by Nighat Dad
Media craves news that attracts huge audiences and breaking news seems to be an indispensible part of every news channel. Reports having to do with women are always attention-grabbing, whether they be the appointment of the pregnant Marissa Mayer as CEO of Yahoo! in California or the shooting of Malala […]
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Changing patterns: Woman’s work in Pakistan
Written by Maria Farooq
I believe that cultural patterns of ‘woman’s work’ are changing and that this change is having a marked effect on the economy itself. While researching this, I talked to two women from different economic, social, cultural and educational backgrounds about such changes in behavior and how they interrelate to changes […]
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The era of “The State should give me” must end
Written by icostachi
Imagine the public budget as a big cake. The biggest slices cover expenses for pensions, education, unemployment benefits, medical insurance, social assistance, etc. Together they make up the components of the welfare state on which we rely so much. If one slice of the cake gets bigger, the other pieces […]
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Serbia: Campaigning for equality at work and a decent life
Written by Bojana Ruzic
The Serbian labor market is beset by huge problems. They include violations of workers’ rights in many forms, but one particularly entrenched problem is gender-based discrimination in the labor market and at the workplace. According to recent research by the Victimology Society of Serbia, 72,2% of women have experienced gender-based […]
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Ladies in waiting
Written by Andreea Vasile
Writer Charles Bukowski didn’t lose his virginity until he was 24. Troubled by a difficult home life and disfigured by extreme acne, the young Bukowski’s love life was almost non-existent. All the girls dated the handsome and the rich. It was only in Bukowski’s middle age that women started to […]
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Egypt: Let’s play politics not the victim game!
Written by Tarek Amr
Last Saturday, some Egyptian activists went to demonstrate at the Muslim Brotherhood headquarters. They demonstrated by drawing arrows on the street pointing to the headquarters and proclaiming, “here lies the sheep pen”. Brotherhood members then came and beat them up. Now both sides are playing victims. Each side tells […]
