Ireland’s new abortion law is a progressive one. But the resulting abortion service erects serious barriers for some people seeking abortions in Ireland.
The Queen Bee myth has more to do with how companies are structured than it does with women actually undermining one another at work.
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At a time when corporations are struggling to address gender gaps at all levels, killing off stereotyped myths such as the Queen Bee Syndrome is essential.
Men make more money in women-dominated fields, such as teaching.
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Men who work in female-dominated fields tend to get more prestige and higher wages.
Hari Ibu presents an opportunity to explicitly acknowledge the difficulties faced by janda and other women marginalised in their community.
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Attitudes toward single women have repeatedly shifted – and part of that attitude shift is reflected in the names given to unwed women.
Young married Catholic couples in the 1960s were subject to strict religious teachings that decreed artificial contraception unacceptable.
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Voters tend to view female candidates as strong on issues like education and health care, but weak on national security. Female veterans might be able to overcome the stereotype.
Products like backpacks, beer and Q-tips are marketed in a gender-specific way.
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The sale of women’s backpacks is up by more than 20 per cent in the past year: but why can’t we just call it a backpack? Why does it have to be a ‘lady backpack?’
Women have to push through barriers to access higher education.
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In the early 20th century, women’s food started being described as ‘dainty,’ meaning fanciful but not filling.
Seventy-eight percent of the people executed for witchcraft in New England in the late 17th and early 18th centuries were women.
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Health services are routinely falling short when it comes to providing care to lesbian, bisexual, trans and other sexual minority women.
Refugees awaiting municipal bread distribution in Akcakale, Turkey, Oct. 20, 2019. Three-quarters of the Syrian refugees in Turkey are women and children.
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Turkey is threatening to send 3.6 million refugees back to the Syrian territory it just invaded. Deporting these vulnerable people would make them the collateral damage of a chaotic, many-sided war.
From city to country girl, but will she stay?
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