Digest of stories affecting Women Worldwide

March 2011

Silent No More – The Women of Arab Revolutions
March 24, 2011 by Carla Power
time.com
The uprisings sweeping the Arab world have toppled not only dictatorships. Gone too are the old stereotypes of Arab women as passive, voiceless victims. Over the past few months, the world has seen them marching in Tunisia, shouting slogans in Bahrain and Yemen, braving tear gas in Egypt and blogging and strategizing in cyberspace… more

What it Takes to reach the top
March 30, 2011 by Jane Martinson
guardian.co.uk – The Women’s Blog
Evidence suggests that women make businesses better – but why are there so few of them at the top? We hear from four company bosses … more

Bangledeshi girl, 14, charged with adultery was lashed to death
March 29, 2011 by Farid Ahmed and Moni Basu
cnn.com
Hena Akhter’s last words to her mother proclaimed her innocence. But it was too late to save the 14-year-old girl. Her fellow villagers in Bangladesh’s Shariatpur district had already passed harsh judgment on her. Guilty, they said, of having an affair with a married man … more

Career progression
March 30, 2011 by Liz Bolshaw
ft.com; Women at the Top blog
There is a banking adage that the best time to ask for a loan is when you don’t need one. The same goes for jobs. With the focus now so firmly on gender diversity at the top, the time has never been better for successful women to ensure they are visible to headhunters. Senior management and board positions are seldom advertised; the task of finding talent at this level usually rests with specialist executive search firms ….. more

I am every woman
March 10, 2011 by Natasha Walker
newstatesman.com
As we mark 100 years of International Women’s Day, Natasha Walter argues that British feminism is shallow if it does not try to learn from the abuse faced by women who have fled their countries to seek asylum here … more

Violence against women in Tahir Square
March 8, 2011 by Laurie Penny
newstatesman.com
Right now, thousands of Egyptian women who gathered to commemorate the centenary of International Women’s Day in the newly liberated Tahrir Square are being assaulted, harassed and brutalised. Not by Mubarak’s thugs, but by the men who lately stood beside them as equals on the barricades … more