Jose Zapetero’s Feminist Agenda
Friday 1st, 2011 by Zoe Williams
guardian.co.uk
On 16 April 2008, Spain scored a European first, (opinion is divided about whether or not it was a world first – it depends on whether or not you count the Amazons) when José Zapatero, the socialist prime minister, entered his second term and announced a majority-female cabinet. … more

Women at the top of Corporations
McKinsey and Company
Dowload Report

Why banning the veil would only cover up the real problems for British Muslims
Monday 18th April  by Andrew Gilligan
telegraph.co.uk
In some ways, they were like any other young women, waiting at the bus stop for the 25 to Ilford, clutching their mobile phones and small bottles of water. But thanks to Europe’s most controversial item of millinery, you could see nothing of Muna Jama and her friend but their eyes. … more

Women on Scotlands Boards
computescotland.com
At the current rate of change it will take over 70 years to achieve gender-balanced boardrooms in the UK. In Europe, only chauvinist Spain manages to beat the UK on low women board member numbers, while globally China at 6.6% will probably soon overtake the UK’s 7.8%. Hopefully Lord Davies urged recommendations accepted, will change quoted company annual reporting and also push a voluntary code of conduct onto executive search firms … more

30% of women would trade at least one year of their life for better body shape
5th April  2011
medcalnewstoday.com
Latest research conducted for new eating disorder charity The Succeed Foundation, in partnership with the University of the West of England (UWE), has found that 30% of women would trade at least one year of their life to achieve their ideal body weight and shapes. … more

Kenyan girls fight back against genital mutilation
18th April  2011
guardian.co.uk – Madeleine Bunting
Female genital mutilation (FGM) horrifies – and bewilders – westerners who find it incomprehensible that a mother would allow her daughter to be so brutally amputated with all the risks of infection, difficult childbirth and deprivation of sexual pleasure. What this film does is to show how custom – even when violent and dangerous – embeds itself in social expectations. … more

Women to blame for rise in injunctions
28th April  2011
telegraph.co.uk – Steven Swinford
Lady Deech, the head of the Bar Standards Board, said she blamed women who sell their stories for money for increasing use of the orders. … more

Scottish Parliamentary Manifesto Costings
28th April  2011
CPPR Report . … more