Women's News from the Web

Ottawa Citizen
Women's hockey in Canada has come a long way from pretty in pink
Ottawa Citizen
Canada's women's team and the IIHF Women's World Hockey Championships are back in Ottawa, 23 years after the great publicity stunt that helped direct the National Capital Region and the rest of the nation to the idea that women could also play the game.

Gender equality remains a touchy subject in the far South, law forum learns
The Nation
Some Thai-Malay Muslim women spoke up about the lack of gender equality in the deep South, citing domestic violence, a lack of women in politics and local community leadership. One Thai-Malay-Muslim woman from the South who participated in the event ...

Afghanistan's Declining Human Rights Crisis Further Threatened
The International
The mission mandates “to protect citizens and their human rights, especially those of women and children” while “providing humanitarian and development assistance.” The UN Security Council unanimously renewed the mission to continue until March of this ...

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CTV News
Canada prepares to defend gold at women's world hockey championship
CTV News
OTTAWA -- Win one, lose one, is the current state of the women's hockey rivalry between Canada and the U.S.. Neither country has been able to win two in a row against the other over the last three years. If one wins in the preliminary round at an ...
Canada routs Sweden in warm-up for women's hockey worldsCBC.ca
Canada blanks Sweden in women's hockey championship tuneupOttawa Citizen
Team Canada Preview: 2013 Women's World ChampionshipsThe Hockey Writers

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Sun News Network
Why some women 'trip for bad boys'
Sun News Network
MONTREAL -- Some women are embarrassed if their significant other lands in jail, others however, actively pursue incarcerated men. "All inmates will tell you that there are women who trip for bad boys," said Stephane Lamarche, a former prisoner who ...

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The Express Tribune (blog)
Dear women, equality comes with a price!
The Express Tribune (blog)
Pakistan is now producing more female doctors than male ones and it is not a good sign. According to some of the senior doctors and medical staff, Pakistan's health system had won the gender equality battle at the cost of productivity. More women are ...

Globe and Mail
Canada routs Sweden in women's world hockey championship warmup
Globe and Mail
Natalie Spooner struck twice as Canada shut out Sweden 8-0 on Saturday in a warm-up game for the women's world hockey championship. Goaltender Shannon Szabados earned the shutout victory for the Canadians, while Jayna Hefford, Haley Irwin, ...

The Guardian
Is Mary Berry a feminist? No, just a rude woman
The Guardian
The women who decline to call themselves feminist but are nevertheless labelled feminist by other people, usually, natch, feminists. Women who are actually pretty rude about feminists but who can nevertheless end up declared feminist, in deed, if not ...

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The Guardian
How Egypt's radical rulers crush the lives and hopes of women
The Guardian
The new constitution has swept away recognition of women's rights and left the door open to the legalisation of perhaps Egypt's most crippling social issue – underage marriage. Draft legislation that would allow the legal age of marriage to be lowered ...
Activists Challenge Egypt's Views On Women's Status in SocietyAl-Monitor

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Toronto Star
Lisa Thomaidis guiding Canada's women's basketball team to new heights
Toronto Star
Lisa Thomaidis has been an integral part of the revitalization of the Canadian women's basketball program as an assistant coach to a team that rose from ashes to the Olympic quarter-finals. Now in charge as the team's head coach, the experience she ...

Day News
Saudi Arabia to allow women's sports clubs: paper
Yahoo! Canada Sports
Last year the conservative Islamic kingdom, where women must have permission from a male relative to take many big decisions, sent women athletes to the Olympics for the first time after pressure from international rights groups. Until now, women's ...
Women's Sports Clubs Will Be Authorized in Saudi ArabiaJezebel
Women's Sports Clubs to be Licensed in Saudi Arabia for the First TimeDay News

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Canada wins 1st exhibition game ahead of women's hockey worlds
CBC.ca
Canada defeated the Gatineau Mustangs 3-1 on Thursday in its first exhibition game in preparation for the upcoming women's world hockey championships. Meghan Agosta-Marciano, Haley Irwin and Jayna Hefford scored for Canada. Charline Labonte ...
Canadian women win fast, physical gamePembroke Daily Observer

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The Guardian
International Women's Day: Indians demand better rights – video
The Guardian
International Women's Day: Indians demand better rights – video. Women march through the streets of Delhi on Friday demanding the government change the laws to better protect women's rights. An inquiry into policy surrounding women's issues began after ...

Marc Garneau: What Canada can do about pay equity and getting women into ...
Globe and Mail
To that end, I would like to discuss four areas where I believe Canada can take a leadership role to boost equality for women: a new pay equity plan; attracting more women to politics; helping marginalized women around the world; and create a special ...

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CBC.ca
Canada's feminists get face time in NFB film
CBC.ca
Canada's feminist movement is explored in a dramatic and comprehensive treatment in the National Film Board's latest offering Status Quo? The unfinished ... "The word 'equality' has been taken out of the mandate of Status of Women Canada,"noted Cho.
International Women's Day: school is 'the new front line of feminism'The Guardian
Where is India's Feminist Movement Headed?New York Times (blog)
Why do some women view 'feminism' as a dirty word?Science Omega
Firstpost
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Hamilton Spectator
Canada falling behind on women on corporate boards: report
Hamilton Spectator
To improve Canada's performance, the report advocates a tough new “comply or explain” policy that would require companies to adopt a policy on gender equity, report the number of women in senior positions and explain when they fall short of their goals.
Corporate Canada needs 'gentle push' to increase women in its boardrooms ...Waterloo Record
More women hold top corporate positions in CanadaThe Province

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rabble.ca (blog)
EXCERPT: The Ascent Of Women
Huffington Post Canada (blog)
The economist Jeffrey Sachs, spearheading the United Nations Millennium Development Project, claims that the status of women is directly related to the economy: where one is flourishing, so is the other; where one is in the ditch, so is the other. The ...
Think child care is no longer a women's issue?rabble.ca (blog)

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From coast to coast, UPS Canada celebrates International Women's Day
Canada NewsWire (press release)
MISSISSAUGA, ON, March 8, 2013 /CNW/ - Around the world on March 8th, charitable and government organizations, educational institutions, women's groups, corporations and the media celebrate International Women's Day (IWD). The recognition and ...

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Forbes
International Women's Day: Charities Helping Women In Canada And Abroad
Huffington Post Canada
Whether it's violence against aboriginal women going without investigation, domestic violence, or unequal representation in the nation's halls of power and business, there are still many women-centred issues in Canada. Below are some of the groups ...
Saving women during childbirth: Maternal health advocates push for new global ...Medical Xpress
Making Girls and Women a Priority Today and Every DayForbes

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The Frisky
Culture exceptions 'threaten women's rights'
Aljazeera.com
The theme of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women conference this year is preventing violence against women. Some countries, like Egypt, Russia and the Vatican state, are fighting to change international agreements to make allowances ...
6 Things To Know About The UN's Commission On The Status Of WomenThe Frisky

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