Despite the growing numbers of women in journalism, progress for women in news media grinds to a halt. Extensive results of the Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) released November 23 show that:…
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Gambia has announced it will ban female genital mutilation, a practice that affects three-quarters of women in the west African country. President, Yahya Jammeh, said, last night, that the ban would come…
Thirteen-year-old girl lured via Facebook, forced into prostitution by two young men and a 17-year-old girl in Toronto. “If there was not a demand for sex with a child, then there would…
Seven girls were kicked off their high school basketball team for complaining about the “very feely” coach. Sign the petition to save the Butterfly Cave that has acted as sanctuary to generations…
The “Female Viagra” isn’t selling! It turns out women don’t want to take an expensive daily pill with sketchy side effects that may or may not make submitting to sex more appealing.…
Rose McGowan, in her usual unapologetic style, speaks her mind about Caitlyn Jenner. She wrote on Facebook (the post has since been deleted): “Woman of the year? No, not until you wake…
Gawker Media has a problem with women. “A former staff writer describes how a media company founded on whistleblowing and radical transparency failed its female employees.” Woman posts terrifying account of playing…
Glosswitch asks: “Why don’t we value older women?” “As shown by the recent furore over Germaine Greer lecturing at Cardiff University, it’s not enough to disagree with an older woman. One must…
Canada’s new Indigenous affairs minister, Carolyn Bennett, says inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women will begin within two weeks. The US Supreme Court is about to consider a case that could…
Nearly two dozen johns in the York region arrested in sting operation for trying to purchase sex from underage girls. (Thanks to the implementation of Bill C-36.) British man travels over 500…
Pro-legalization advocates often try to deny the link between prostitution and big sporting events like the Grey Cup, but they’re wrong: “The link between large sporting events and sex trafficking is simple:…
Scripps College holds an event called “Project Vulva,” inviting women to decorate cupcakes like vulvas and discuss the taboo around female genitalia in our phallocentric society. Yet, it turns out that vulvas…
Hundreds of cops in the U.S. kicked off force for committing sex crimes. The abuse of power over women is horrifying, and this number is “unquestionably an undercount because it represents only…
Social experiment: woman pretends to be drunk in middle of day to see how men reaction. Surprise, surprise! They act like predators. A company that owns several popular restaurant chains across the…
Vanished women: The Filipino domestic workers who disappear behind closed doors. “According to the United Nation’s International Labour Organisation, domestic workers are some of the most likely to face abuse and exploitation…