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Helping your teenage daughter out of that comfort zone

At some point in the life of a teenage girl, she may have felt shy, or withdrawn from her usual bubbly self. While this may not be applicable to everyone, there are a lot of girls out there, who find it difficult to make friends; they are really shy and find it difficult to start up conversations, or join a group of peers they want to make friends with. You often find them standing in an isolated corner, tying away on their phones and acting disinterested in everything going on around them. More often than not, they do not want to be in that corner;Trust me, I should know, I was that kind of teen. Parents, guardians and friends may say stuff like; “you’re too shy or you’vegot to step a bit out of your comfort zone”, not caring to find out what her “comfort zone”really is, often times, her…

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Impact Inspire

From the Runway to Maternal healthcare-Liya Kebede

Liya Kebede is the founder of the Liya Kebede Foundation (LKF) which was established in 2005 for the sole purpose of attending to the needs of mothers who face death risks due to inadequate healthcare. An Ethiopian by birth, she is a supermodel who has been featured in major magazines, runway shows and print campaigns for leading designers and brands and has acted in several feature films. LKF is a non-profit organization which raises funds through donations and product partnerships and issues grants to leading development organizations working in Africa to improve health services. Alongside The Liya Kebede Foundation, she launched the hand-crafted clothing brand, lemlem, which is produced by artisans in Africa. According to Liya, nearly 300,000 mothers die from complications of pregnancy and childbirth every year and 1 million newborns die on their birth day. Her appointment as WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health,…

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Health & Personal

Living Above Deadly Diseases- A Case of Alzheimer

Although Alzheimer’s disease affects both men and women, the condition is gaining attention as a women’s health issue. There is no known physiological link between gender and development of the disease, but statistics show that more women than men are affected. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, almost two-thirds of Ameri­cans diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease are women, as are more than 60 percent of caregivers for people with Alzheimer’s. “Alzheimer’s disease is certainly a women’s issue,” says Ruth Drew, MS, LPC (licensed professional counselor), director of Family and Information Services for the Alzheimer’s Association. “Women are at the epicenter of the Alzheimer’s crisis.” Because the disease has a poten­tially devastating impact on both those diagnosed and their caregivers, Alzheimer’s awareness is essential for anyone, man or woman. But with greater impact among women, it is most certainly a key women’s health concern. This dreaded disease fits into a category of cognitive,…

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Happenings

Why Women Could Be the Key to Uber’s Success in Argentina

Uber may get a bad rap in the US and in most of the world when it comes to drivers sexually assaulting women, but in Argentina the ride-sharing app may help decrease the country’s sky-high rate of cab-side sexual harassment and violence. On average, 99 cases of sexual assault perpetrated by taxi drivers are reported to police every month in the Greater Buenos Aires Area, Javier Miglino, a lawyer and founder of NGO Let’s Defend Buenos Aires (Defendamos Buenos Aires), told Motherboard. “That can range from ‘simple’ sexual assault, meaning kissing or touching someone against their will, to rape,” Miglino said. He claims there’s been an “exponential” increase in reports over the last 10 years, but that could just be indicative of women feeling more comfortable speaking up. 80 percent of reported attacks take place on the weekends, he said, “typically to girls who’ve gone out dancing and hail cabs…

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A Changing Middle East: New Jobs for Women in Saudi Arabia

By: Katie Beiter For the first time, women in Saudi Arabia are being allowed to work in pharmacies, herbal medicine stores and optical stores in malls. The new opportunities are part of a plan, called Saudi Vision 2030, to diversify its economy away from a reliance on oil by utilizing a traditionally untapped resource: women. The ultra-conservative Wahhabi nation, known for having repressive laws surrounding women, has committed itself to increasing female employment rates from 22% to 30% mainly by reforming laws. “They are marketing it as a social reform but it is very much tied to the economic situation in Saudi Arabia,” Adam Coogle, a Middle Eastern researcher at Human Rights Watch (HRW), told The Media Line. Saudi Arabia, which has a population of roughly 31 million, is a vital member of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Around half of its gross domestic product is based…

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Happenings

Women have been named to some of Japan’s top posts, but the country still lags on female empowerment

By: Ann M. Simmons Acknowledging that Japan has failed to fully promote the advancement of women, the Japanese government has pledged to elevate their status in the workplace and in the country’s political arena. In the last five months, three women assumed high-profile political positions in Japan: The country’s new defense minister, the governor of Tokyo and the leader of the opposition Democratic Party are all women. In the corporate world, “male business leaders started to view women’s empowerment not as a human rights issue but an economic issue,” said Kaori Sasaki, a prominent women’s rights advocate and president and chief executive officer of ewoman Inc., a think tank and consulting firm. “Public companies have started to open the doors for women to be on boards — that’s why I’m sitting on several public companies’ boards,” Sasaki told The Times during a recent interview. “Also, companies started doing a lot…

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Governance in Heels

Women in Parliament: Where does India figure among the rest of the World?

By: Bhanupriya Rao While the global average for Women in Parliament stands at 22.4%, India is at the 103rd place out of 140 countries with a mere 12% representation. Within Asia, India is at the 13th position out of 18 countries. Countries like South Sudan, Saudi Arabia have better Women representation in Parliament than India. Women’s representation in elected bodies, Lok Sabha and state legislative assemblies is a source of huge disappointment. As we observed in a previous article, women occupy just 66 seats in the 543 member Lok Sabha, which is a mere 12%. The scenario for women Members of Legislative Assemblies (MLAs) across all state assemblies in India is even worse, with the national average being a pitiable 9%. The best among them, Bihar, Rajasthan and Haryana have 14% representation while the worst states are Pondicherry and Nagaland, which have no women MLAs at all. This being the…

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