A piece by the New York Times this month exposes a striking gender inequity in the fields of computer science and engineering. Numbers have long ago proven that investing in women as tech entrepreneurs is good for the bottom line, and that co-ed ventures in computer and software engineering tend to be the most successful. And yet, women continue to be scarce in this professional field…
Dorothy Height, known as “the godmother of the civil rights movement” and a hero to many Americans, passed away yesterday at 98 years old. Her passing certainly brings much sadness to all those who remember her seven decades of relentless advocacy for racial equality. But in celebrating the life she lived, Americans are also reminded of the crucial but often overlooked role of women in the civil rights movement.
Today is Equal Pay Day 2010: Meaning that Tuesday, April 20, 2010 symbolizes how far into 2010 women must work to earn what men earned in 2009.
Protesting in the name of women’s rights, hundreds of Yemeni women gathered in Sana’a, Yemen’s capital city, to persuade the government to pass a new bill that would ban marriage to a child under 17 years old. As approximately half of Yemeni girls are married by the age of 18, and some as early as nine, the child marriage bill has sparked an intense debate among the bill’s supporters, the government, and the religious opposition, who claim the bill violates the laws of Islam.
After a long period of disputes, street protests, and a whole-scale government intervention, women judges can finally celebrate this week’s constitutional ruling: for the first time, women judges can join the benches of Egypt’s top administrative courts. While many see this as a success story for gender equality in the workplace, others see it as a cause for great concern.
The recent return of Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan’s southern provinces has also marked a return to many of the dangerous tactics utilized to restrict women’s access to education. Despite the devastatingly violent acts targeting many Afghan schools, especially the female students, it has been reported that hundreds of women are participating in underground education programs across the Zabul province.
