Profiles and interviews
Four trends helping women in business move ahead
Women in Business: The Silk Road to the Top
Saint Johanna’: Iceland’s gay feminist
Iraq’s ex-minister for women’s rights speaks out
Activist: Women in Morocco — progress but ‘could do better’
Michelle Obama a voice for women in the White House
Afghan MP is successful but a victim of tradition
News
Dutch lead EU in rate of part-time women workers: agency
Women do best in Sweden, Belgium, Norway
UN urged to quickly establish super-agency for women
First black woman tipped for top French book prize
Angela Merkel: Germany’s successful, cautious chancellor
Rapists, hunger and hyenas stalk displaced Somali women
Prisoners turn beauticians at Malaysia’s ‘Jail Spa’
Sniff: women cry more than men, and for longer
US ‘Band of Sisters’ hope to inspire Afghan girls
Women-only demining teams tackle South Sudan’s legacy of war
In UAE, marriage is seen as the key to national identity
Delhi slum women hail a taxi to equality
Where have East Germany’s women gone?
Beauty in Venezuela is matter of pride, and scalpels
Lagerfeld: ‘No one wants to see curvy women’
Justice denied for Bosnian war rape victims
India’s mothers-in-law fight back against ‘persecution’
Tantrums and tiaras in Bogota prison
‘Mummy’ Merkel, trying to court women voters
Women in poor countries bear brunt of cancer epidemic
Yemen child bride, 12, dies giving birth: rights group
Turkish women lured to take part in fake TV show
Forbes: Merkel still world’s most powerful woman
Frau Power: The animated ‘Angie’
Women pickier than men about one-night stands
Thailand’s wine industry gets a woman’s touch
Merkel’s challenger packs shadow cabinet with women
Poll: British women want to be curvy not thin
Poise, power as women make mark in the cricket world
Croatia’s first woman PM set to take office
Despite risks, skin-lightening creams still seduce in Senegal
Burkas not welcome in France: Sarkozy
Three women set to paddle across the Atlantic
Local elections to mark another quiet step for women
Move over page-one girl, here comes German ‘Bild’ boy
Jail for female circumcisers in Senegal
Women candidates sidelined in Lebanon vote
Blonde therapy lifts spirits in crisis-hit Latvia
German mothers who work full-time happiest, study says
Saudi women pioneers brave clerics with ball games
Kuwaitis punish Islamists, vote for women
Iraq women learn to read in schooling against terror
Saint Johanna’: Iceland’s gay feminist
Afghan female provincial legislator gunned down
Vagina Monologues exposes divide in Kyrgyzstan
Afghan singer’s new refrain is a call for freedom
Indonesian women seek to oust men from parliament
German women march for equal pay
Indonesian porn law turns off folk dancers
Healthcare remote for most Pakistani women
Paris museum to open year-long show on women in art
Feminist university launched in Tunisia
Benin filmmaker takes her fight against child labor to school
Economic slump in Europe could hit women hardest
IPU: Record number of women parliamentarians in 2008
Russia bans women drivers… on the metro
French archbishop scoops ‘Macho of the Year’ award
In baby steps, Saudi women rise up
Lebanese feminists hold a sit-in on the occasion of the International Women’s Day in Beirut on March 8, 2009.
UN chief: End violence against women
Controversial Tunisian film highlights gender inequality
Women’s Day marks crisis of poverty, violence
A century on, Women’s Day is a reminder of enduring inequities
Women still under-represented in European politics
Fear of death stalks Pakistani women in Swat
Obama hails women leaders, calls for more participation
Obama mulls post for international women’s issues
Clinton honors women’s rights, calls for equality
Vatican says washing machine brought rights to women
Turkish Kurd women hold placards reading ‘Long live 8 March,’ and chant slogans on International Women’s Day on March 8, 2009 in Istanbul where more than 5000 women gathered to mark International Women’s Day. The day serves as a reminder of the fields in which women must still battle for fundamental rights, and where they remain victims of violence and enduring inequalities.
Bangladesh women, children bear scars of acid attacks
Women leaders demand equal rights on Women’s Day eve
Berlusconi faces ‘sexist’ complaint
Jordanian teenager kills sister over alleged affair
Expatica 2009