What in the world is happening…
Self-immolation by Afghan women trapped in oppressive circumstances seems to be on the rise.
Fourteen pages of the commission’s report are dedicated to brief descriptions by family members of reasons these women committed suicide. Most are because of rape, beatings and accusations against their honor.
Despite arguments that, among other things, “female judges might become pregnant while serving on the bench and that would affect the judiciary’s prestige”, Egypt has, for the first time, appointed 31 women judges.
In the UK, a new report reveals that Black and Asian women find it harder than white women to get jobs.
EOC chair Jenny Watson said: “Young Pakistani, Bangladeshi and black Caribbean women are ambitious and equipped for work, but they are still suffering even greater penalties at work than white women. Time after time women told us about the ‘unwritten rules’ in their workplace, hidden barriers that prevent them from realising these ambitions. Without tackling these unwritten rules, change will never come.
In Iran, anti-stoning activists are being detained.
In England, a debate about women’s prisons.
And in St. Louis, renovations at Busch Stadium will ensure that women will have as many restrooms as men.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Wednesday that those changes will put the new stadium in compliance with a state law the stadium’s architects didn’t know existed last year. Enacted in 1995, the law requires that sports stadiums and other large public venues have as many toilets for women as it has toilets and urinals for men.
