Women

Tangshan And Xuzhou: China's Treatment Of Women

It was a busy Friday night at a barbecue restaurant in the Chinese city of Tangshan. A group of women were having dinner together when one of them was approached by a male diner.Recoiling from his touch, she said "go away".

24 June 2022
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Myanmar Women Struggle With Menstrual Hygiene

A year after Myanmar erupted into civil war prompted by a February 2021 military coup, more than half a million people have been internally displaced and millions are unable to access basic food and medical needs.For women, the hardships are compounded by the challenge of managing their monthly periods. “I have to use one sanitary pad for the whole day and night.

31 May 2022
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Indonesia Passes Long-Awaited Sexual Violence Bill

Indonesia's parliament passed a long-awaited sexual violence bill on Tuesday, a landmark decision that raises hopes of justice for victims after the country recorded a spike in reported cases during the coronavirus pandemic.Indonesian women's rights activists have for years condemned the lack of avenues for victims of gender-based and sexual violence to seek justice in a country where abuse is often considered a private affair and victims are discouraged from filing a report.Cheers

13 April 2022
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Long COVID: A Generation Affected By Disability

Long COVID could create a generation affected by disability, with people forced out of their homes and work, and some even driven to suicide, a leading expert has warned.Prof Danny Altmann – an immunologist at Imperial College London – said that the United Kingdom’s (UK) current approach to COVID fails to take the impact of infections sufficiently seriously, adding that more needs to be done to aid diagnosis and treatment of long COVID.“It’s kind of an anathema to me that we’ve kind of thrown

24 March 2022
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COVID: Women Bore Brunt Of Social, Economic Impacts

The social and economic burden of COVID-19 has fallen disproportionately on women around the world, the Red Cross has warned, in a stark analysis of the impact of the pandemic.Women were particularly affected by the loss of income and education, rises in domestic violence, child marriage and trafficking, and responsibility for caring for children and sick relatives, according to a comprehensive report published by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) on

23 November 2021
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China’s #MeToo Movement Faces Crackdown

China's #MeToo movement has stumbled in the face of swift internet censors, a patriarchal society and a legal system that places a heavy burden on the claimant.Explosive claims this month by tennis star Peng Shuai that a former top Communist Party politician had sexually assaulted her marked the first time allegations have hit the top layer of government.But her accusations were swiftly scrubbed from the Chinese internet, and she has not been seen publicly since.Others have faced the sam

22 November 2021
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The Smart Climate Money Is On Women

Women account for 43 percent of the agricultural labour force in developing countries, but account for only about seven percent of investment in the sector. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN), investing more in female farmers could increase agricultural yields by up to 30 percent – almost enough to offset the decline in output expected by 2030 because of climate change.

16 November 2021
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Can The COVID Vaccine Affect The Menstrual Cycle?

After her first Pfizer vaccine five months ago, Dahye Yim, 30, noticed something different with her menstrual cycle.Unusually heavier and with more physical symptoms such as a migraine, she went online to see if other women had experienced post-vaccine cyclical changes.She uncovered similar stories but failed to find scientifically-backed information on possible short-term vaccine side effects.The South Korean national, a PhD student based between London and Berlin, told Al Jazeera: “After I

3 November 2021
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How Pink Is Powering Green

The colour pink is commonly associated with females. It stands for all things typically feminine - love, kindness and compassion. This, anecdotally, may have evolved from hunter-gatherer times, when women needed to fetch edible pink leaves or berries from green foliage.

19 September 2021
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Chinese Olympian Interview Sparks Backlash

A Chinese state media interview with an Olympic gold medallist asking when she would get married and have children has sparked backlash online.The CCTV segment with Gong Lijiao, who won the women's shot-put final on Sunday, also described her as a "manly woman".Netizens have criticised the interview calling it sexist and narrow-minded.They discussed it online with the hashtag: "Is marriage the only thing that can be talked about women?"The questions have led many to o

6 August 2021
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Lipstick And COVID-19

“Is my lipstick protecting me against COVID-19?” ranks as one of the more intriguing email queries we have received from a member of the public since we began coordinating the world’s largest tracker of sex-disaggregated data on the pandemic. In fact, the question points to an important universal truth regarding public health.We established the tracker in March 2020 because we thought that COVID-19 was unlikely to be equally distributed in any population. That hunch has proved correct.

7 July 2021
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