Gender
This 2-minute meditation will help you find calm with your new baby
For those of you who have new babies, you know that life is full of everyday miracles. But this period can also mean sleepless chaos with little sense of time. This is the perfect moment to practice meditation.Below, I'm sharing a simple practice I teach new parents to help restore calm and Read More...
This startup uses photography to empower women around the world
The women and girls working with social enterprise Lensational use recycled and donated cameras to express themselves and earn an income. By Jennifer Chowdhury2015-10-04 12:00:17 UTC Bonnie Chiu has used photography to express herself for as long as she can remember. But it was a chance encounter Read More...
Why do empires care about women’s clothes
In 1820, in the Indian city of Benares, an English Baptist missionary named Smith helped to save a woman from the Hindu practice of sati, the burning of widows. He described the scene: ‘As soon as the flames touched her, she jumped off the pile. Immediately the Brahmins seized her, in order Read More...
Emma Thompson’s wonderful thoughts on feminism, ageism, Trump, and teapots
There’s a maxim in Hollywood that nobody knows anything, but perhaps they simply haven’t talked to Emma Thompson. The outspoken Oscar-winning actress can expound on any subject with experience and wit. With her new film A Walk in the Woods out this week, we called Thompson up and asked her to Read More...
Chiara Vigo: The last woman who makes sea silk
Silk is usually made from the cocoons spun by silkworms - but there is another, much rarer, cloth known as sea silk or byssus, which comes from a clam. Chiara Vigo is thought to be the only person left who can Read More...
Pop feminism inspiring more young women to get involved in politics
Beyoncé's August, 2014, appearance at the Video Music Awards. Emma Watson, Beyonce, Taylor Swift, Antonia Zerbisias — if you’re not sure what these four women have to do with Canadian politics, you probably haven’t been following the meteoric surge of pop Read More...
It's about time young women get credit for their feminism
Amandla Stenberg isn’t just a versatile young actress. She’s also a thoughtful feminist. Photograph: Donato Sardella/Getty Images for Teen Vogue When I was a young feminist – working at my first job in a women’s nonprofit and eager to single-handedly take on the patriarchy Read More...
See where women outnumber men around the world (and why)
Overall, there are slightly more men than women in the world. According to United Nations estimates for 2015, there are 101.8 men for each 100 women, with the number of men rising gradually each year since 1960. But a map by the Pew Research Center with the latest U.N. data Read More...
Last but one country: Women register to vote for the first time in Saudi Arabia
Women in Saudi Arabia are registering to vote… for the first time. King Abdullah issued a royal decree in 2011 granting women the right to vote as of 2015, but many critics doubted whether or not the decree would be followed through with, wary of Abdullah’s past empty promises. Now women are Read More...
Can the Safecity app make Delhi safer for women?
Since the wall near an abuse hotspot in Delhi was painted last December, fewer women are harassed there. Photograph: Salini Sharma/Safecity I was touched at rush hour at the busy Andheri Station. A person passing my rickshaw simply touched my breast and ran away while I sat disgusted and Read More...