Today’s print edition of the Washington Post has a front page article about Ted Leonsis, who has been the owner of the Washington Capitals NHL hockey team and now has reached a deal to also be the sole owner of the Washington Wizards NBA basketball team. The article, written by a man named Les Carpenter, [...]
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M.I.A. is a popular and controversial musical artist from England, of Sri Lankan origin. Though many of us remember her music from years ago (I have to say, her song “Galang” is still one of my favorites), her 2007 album Kala got a lot of play. The single “Paper Planes” was sampled everywhere, from commercials [...]
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There has been a series of poisonous gas attacks against school girls in Afghanistan. The most recent occurred on Sunday in Kunduz province, in which at least 13 girls fell ill. They reported symptoms such as headaches, vomiting and shivering. On Saturday, 47 girls from a different school had reported feeling dizzy and nauseous, while [...]
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I saw this photo on MSNBC. The caption was: Afghan women learn how to make a doll at an April 15 workshop in Kandahar sponsored by a Malaysian nongovernmental organization called Mercy. Some 80 women participate in every workshop despite rising tensions in the city between the Taliban and NATO troops.
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Would you really want to be in a car where the driver is wearing a niqab (a full face veil with an open slit for the eyes)? Doesn’t it seem reasonable that the driver’s sight would be restricted? Well, last month, a French police officer gave a ticket to woman who was wearing a niqab, [...]
Filed under: Burqa and Other Veils, International, Religion | Tagged: Burqa and Other Veils, France, Niqab, Sarkozy, Veils | 10 Comments »
I saw a short blurb about a new independent movie called “Women’s Studies.” It’s coming out on pay-per-view on May 1 and DVD on June 8. I don’t know anything about it, but the blurb was funny: An independent horror movie about a pregnant grad student who is kidnapped by an all-girls school that is [...]
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Title IX, passed by Congress in 1972, prohibited gender discrimination in educational programs and activities receiving federal financing. The biggest impact was on sports in high schools and colleges. The law requires that universities perform multiple steps to determine whether women are being provided with equal opportunities to participate in sports at the university. One [...]
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Today NPR released a few graphics depicting the gender and race pay gaps. As you can see, though the gap has been closing over the years, progress has been slow. There are still significant racial gaps. But its interesting to see that gender gap persists for all races. The accompanying article is worth a read, [...]
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