Three women, including Lt. Gov. Molly Gray and Senate President Pro Tempore Becca Balint, are among the Democrats vying for the seat vacated by the state’s lone U.S. House member, Democrat Peter Welch, who is seeking to go to the Senate. Both Republican candidates who have registered to run in the midterm elections are women.
Marine stakeholders and companies have expressed concern over an apparent gender imbalance on reconstituted boards of parastatals in the transport and maritime industries.
According to a nonprofit, women with asthma in the UK are twice as likely as men to die from an asthma attack.
Founder of the Everyday Sexism Project, Laura Bates, discusses the prevalence of rape and sexual violence against women and girls and how systemic misogyny explains why so many perpetrators escape conviction. Her new book, Fix the System Not the Women, was just released.
In a unanimously adopted statement, the United Nations Security Council urged the Taliban to “swiftly reverse” policies restricting human rights and freedoms for Afghan women amid fears that the Taliban was turning back the clock on women’s rights.
During the Taliban’s last reign in Afghanistan, from 1996 to 2001, they imposed severe restrictions on women, requiring them to wear the all-encompassing burqa and prohibiting them from participating in public life or education.
An MP has warned that women undergoing IVF treatment face workplace discrimination due to a lack of legal protections.
