By: Dave Kaup Tammy Dickinson is the US. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri. She was one of the 46 U.S. District Attorneys asked to step down by the Trump administration. Nearly a dozen women are stepping down from their roles as U.S. District Attorneys following the Trump administration’s request that all Obama-era appointees resign. Attorney Gen. Jeff Sessions recently asked for 46 attorneys to resign. Since Trump took office, 16 others have already left. Former Atty. Gen. Sally Yates made quite an exit in January when she opposed Trump’s travel ban and was subsequently fired. Friday’s announcement did not affect more than 20 acting or interim attorneys. Some have been serving as placeholders until Trump’s nominees are confirmed for the positions, BuzzFeed News reported. Sessions also began offering reprieves to several attorneys, including Dierdre Daly from Connecticut, allowing them to remain in their posts, according to Politico. His…

Singapore has seen more women research scientists and engineers (RSEs) holding PhDs, according to a survey by the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star). The latest National Survey of Research and Development, showed there were 2,740 women PhD holders among the (RSEs), compared with 1,729 in 2010. This is a more than 50 per cent increase. The figures were revealed recently by A*Star to mark International Women’s Day, which is celebrated on March 8 every year. The Figures showed that there were 7,168 men compared with 2,483 women, according to the 2014 survey – a ratio of nearly three to one. Similarly, nearly one in three of all RSEs in Singapore is a woman, with the 2014 survey putting the proportion at 29 per cent. Singapore’s ratio exceeds that of many developed countries and research heavyweights. In 2013, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development saw similar in France…

Algerian activists who had gathered to mark International Women’s Day recently were forced to disperse and arrested by large swathes of police as they demonstrated. Activists from the Tharwa Fadhma N’Soumer and Djazairouna associations had gathered near the Grande Poste in Algiers to denounce inequality in Algerian society and pay tribute to the women who died during the black decade of Algeria’s 1990’s civil war. “The police told us that they were there not for our little gathering but for something else and that we were in the wrong place at the wrong time” one activist who was present, Djamel-Eddine Oulmane, explained. “We must constantly reiterate that we are here to ensure that women acquire more rights and full citizenship in relation to men,” Oulmane continued. “It must not be forgotten that women had the right to vote in Algeria, while some countries did not have it in 1962.” According…