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Jul 01, 2008; Lippman, Abby ... HOMELAND KUDOS Thanks to you for publishing the article by Maya Khankhoje, "Homeland. security." in your Spring 2008 issue. It was a most lovely read. I read the piece as one who also did not grow up in Canada-but who followed a much less circuitous route to get here-and it aroused many ...
Go Home or Go Home
Jul 01, 2008; Mitchell, Penni ... If you told me a few years ago that equality "would cease to be a Status of Women policy objective, I "would have said you were paranoid (or else paraphrasing Margaret Atwood). If you told me a few months ago that Ottawa "would try to control the kind of films being made in Canada, I "would have ...
TURN THE PAGE
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... A group of British women's magazine editors agreed in April to draw up a voluntary code of practice on airbrushing and the use of size zero models. The U.K. Periodical Publishers Association will act as an arbiter for the discussions, to include the British Fashion Council. The ...
FIRST WOMAN JUDGE
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The United Arab Emirates' first female judge, Kholoud al-Dahiri, was appointed by presidential decree in March. The Gulf state recently amended its laws to permit ...
NEW QUEEN OF CHESS
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Hou Yifan, a 14-year-old from China who is considered by many to be a future world champion, won the Ataturk International Women Masters Chess Tournament in Istanbul in March. Hou was the youngest player to participate in the tournament, which was started as an annual event this year by ...
WOMEN TAKE ON DOMESTIC ASSAULT
Jul 01, 2008; Oates, Lauryn ... (KABUL) A few years ago, two police advisors from the U.S. turned Kabul's District 10 police station into a model for other stations. They established a records system for the first time, introduced communications protocols, created Kabul's first bicycle patrol, and gave the officers computer ...
FORCE OF CHANGE
Jul 01, 2008; Oates, Lauryn ... (KABUL) Deep in the heart of Kabul's shawre-naw("new city") is an unassuming red metal gate tucked in between two rundown shops. Behind that gate lives and works Tonita Murray, a Canadian who has lived in Afghanistan's capital for three years. Murray is the gender advisor to Afghanistan's ...
ABSTINENCE CAUSES PREGNANCY
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... A University of Washington study has found that 15-to 19-year-olds who have had comprehensive sex education rather than abstinence-only education are less ...
MADAME SPEAKER
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Pakistan's parliament selected its first female speaker, Fehmida Mirza, in March. Mirza, a nominee of the liberal Pakistan People's Party, won 249 votes in the 342-seat National Assembly. February's elections split the legislature between the ...
CERVICAL CANCER PROGRAM FOR CHINA
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... China's health ministry launched a pilot cervical cancer prevention program in March that will provide free screenings to over 200,000 women in the next three years. According ...
PAY BEFORE YOU PLAY
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Illinois has collected more than $1.2 billion in back child support payments since Governor Rod Blagojevich vowed to improve the state's record on child support ...
BREADWINNING GOOD
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The majority of men are happy to share the breadwinning role, with only 12 percent of men expressing a problem if their wives bring home the bigger paycheque, MSNBC reported this ...
BREAKING THE SILENCE IN JAPAN
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Japanese women are increasingly turning to police to report domestic violence, with 15 percent more cases documented in 2007 compared to 2006. "An increasing number of cases concern women who had previously suffered in silence but have ...
EQUALITY SUPPORT GROWS
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Women's equality is important or very important to 84 percent of men and 86 percent of women among 14,896 respondents polled in the world's 16 largest nations, according to a poll prepared for the March 8 observation of International Women's Day and conducted by Washington, D.C.-based World ...
WOMEN WEIGH IN
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... A survey sponsored by the Dairy Farmers of Canada found that nearly 86 per cent of Canadian women want to lose weight to improve their self-esteem. The December 2007 survey polled almost 3,000 Canadian women about their attitudes and emotions towards weight loss. It reported that 28 ...
ELECTION REFORM
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach's Progressive Conservatives won a bare majority of the popular vote in the province's January election-53 percent-but walked away with 88 percent of the 83 seats in the province's legislature. Meanwhile, the 47 percent who voted for opposition parties were rewarded ...
THE FUTURE IS OVER
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... The Women's Future Fund (WFF) was best known for its workplace donation program that disbursed donations to a diverse range of national women's organizations. It grew from 3 participating workplaces in 2000 to over 30 by 2006. Until 2006, the organization was able to give out 100 percent of ...
MS. REBUFFS JEWISH CONGRESS AD
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Ms. magazine refused to publish an advertisement in January that featured three prominent women associated with the Israeli government along with the text, "This is Israel." The ad was produced by the American Jewish Congress (AJC). The AJC charged that the publishers' decision ...
WAGE GAP HURTS WOMEN
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... Some things never change, and women's fair share of the wage pie seems to be one of them. Statistics Canada reported in April that young women entering the paid force are paid, on average, 15 percent less than men doing the same job. In 2005, women working full-time for a full year we re ...
WOMEN FACE TORTURE, EXTERMINATION
Jul 01, 2008; Anonymous ... In March, a report on rape as a weapon of war in the Congo recommended measures to protect women and girls in the country's wartorn regions. Getting Serious about Ending Conflict and Sexual Violence in Congo, produced for the organization, Enough, was written by field researcher Rebecca ...