Une lectrice nous signale : Au moins 20 femmes élues en Arabie Saoudite
Premières élections ouvertes aux femmes: au moins 20 Saoudiennes élues, dans La Presse
Premières élections ouvertes aux femmes: au moins 20 Saoudiennes élues, dans La Presse
Si la Fédération des femmes du Québec veut les contacter, voici le site Web: http://www.unchainedatlast.org/ Woman Breaks Through Chains of Forced Marriage, and Helps Others Do the Same, par Samuel G. Freedman du New York Times
“Comment réagiraient les hommes de chez nous si la réalité était inversée? Que diraient messieurs Trudeau, Mulcair et Couillard, si enclins à la tolérance et au respect de lois votées dans le passé?” Les hommes et la burqa, par Denise Bombardier dans le Journal de Québec Changeons la perspective. Imaginons que dans l’islam, ce soit…
Boys are being outclassed by girls at both school and university, and the gap is widening The Economist The OECD deems literacy to be the most important skill that it assesses, since further learning depends on it. Sure enough, teenage boys are 50% more likely than girls to fail to achieve basic proficiency in any…
They have a much higher idiot factor than women do, especially when young. This fundamental difference between the sexes will never be eradicated no matter how hard we try. (Although try we must.) Margaret Wente The Globe and Mail The idiot hypothesis is scarcely original to me. It has occurred to most serious scholars of…
There is a collision course between feminists and transgender activists. Elinor Burkett New York Times Elinor Burkett is a journalist, a former professor of women’s studies and an Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker. Do women and men have different brains? Back when Lawrence H. Summers was president of Harvard and suggested that they did, the reaction was…
Pierre Saint-Arnaud La Presse Canadienne Un regroupement d’organismes oeuvrant auprès de prostituées lance une campagne pour dénoncer l’exploitation sexuelle exacerbée durant le Grand Prix de Formule Un qui se déroulera le week-end prochain à Montréal.
Emily DeRuy Fusion In what appears to be an act of straight-up trolling his own family, a Saudi prince is creating a videogame called “Saudi Girls Revolution,” that features young Saudi women racing motorcycles.
Commentaire de Lise Ravary Journal de Montréal Le Conseil du statut de la femme a publié un avis hier, prônant un véritable partage des congés parentaux en permettant aux pères de passer trois semaines seuls à la maison avec leur enfant, à la fin du congé de la mère. Selon cet avis de 104 pages,…
Times High Education Sussex researcher speaks of ‘disbelief’ at comments over paper on gender bias A postdoctoral researcher has spoken out about her “shock and disbelief” at “sexist”, “sarcastic” and “patronising” comments she received in a manuscript review. An anonymous peer reviewer suggests that the paper, written by two female researchers, should include at least one male author to make…