Article: Muslim women's voice will be heard in debate; AGENDA Recent Government plans to tackle extremism gives Muslim women a chance to come to the fore in society, says Shaista Gohir.(News)

Article: Muslim women to be trained for public office.
M2 Presswire;  March 9, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... 9 March 2009-UK Government: Muslim women to be trained for public office ... COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09032009 The Muslim Women's Advisory group have today kicked off a project to get more Muslim Women' involved in politics. There ...

Article: Empowering Muslim women - Hazel Blears.
M2 Presswire;  January 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... of opportunities available to Muslim women and provide information and ideas ... opportunities for women and young Muslims to play a greater role in civic ... leadership training courses for Muslim women and young Muslims, including work around boosting ...

Article: Gordon Brown launches the muslim women's advisory ...
M2 Presswire;  January 31, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Government: Gordon Brown launches the muslim women's advisory group(C)1994 ... LTD RDATE:31012008 The National Muslim Women's Advisory group (NMWAG) was ... Street. NMWAG will be led by 19 Muslim women representing a wide spectrum of ...

Article: Birmingham a model for Muslim women - report.(News)
The Birmingham Post (England);  January 24, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... many women?" A survey shows young Muslim women are far more emancipated, self ... ambitious than perceived by non-Muslims. A study of Muslims aged between 16 and 30 years old said Muslim women expect to balance both career and ...

Article: 'Mad woman in the Burqa': Muslim women as exemplar ...
Hecate;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... 2) There is a constituency of Muslim women that, as Polly Toynbee notes ... feminism', these ideas, held by Muslim women, exist. This jars against conventional depictions of Muslim women as oppressed and as, in fact ...

Article: VOA NEWS: MUSLIM WOMEN FROM AROUND THE WORLD JOIN A ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... By Mohamed Elshinnawi A group of Muslim women from around the world is participating ... techniques with the aim of empowering Muslim women to promote peaceful change in their ... the opening of the program, 25 Muslim women from various countries listened ...

Article: One man's patriarchy is another man's inconvenience: ...
Arena Magazine;  February 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... shedding of crocodile tears over Muslim women has come to characterise the rhetoric ... government departments. The plight of Muslim women has become a paradigm of victimhood. Australian commentary on Muslim women has targeted them, both blaming ...