Tokyo: A new study has revealed that hospitalized women are less likely to die when their doctor is also a woman. According to media reports, the study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, included treating physicians and patients age 65 and older. The study found that 8.15 percent of women aged 65 and over…
Released on Friday, coinciding with International Women’s Day, the data compiled by UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) shows that the pace of progress against FGM remains slow and woefully off track to meet the Sustainable Development Goal of ending the practice by 2030 (SDG 5, target 5.3). The global pace of decline worldwide would need to…
Ms. Pandit was a veteran politician and leader in her own right but also came from a family background steeped in politics, including her brother, Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister following the country’s hard-won independence from a near century of British rule. An active Indian nationalist, she was also the first Indian woman to…
“Even one mutilation is one too many,” António Guterres said in his message to mark the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), observed annually on 6 February. The UN estimates that globally, more than 200 million women and girls have been subjected to some form of FGM, which involves the removal…
Hijab is mandatory for female students in Indonesian schools, Photo: File Jakarta: A teacher at an Indonesian school cut the hair of 14 female students as punishment for not wearing hijab correctly. According to the World News Agency, the teacher cut the protruding hair in a school in a town in Java, Indonesia, after expressing…
People go to great lengths to make the moments of their life memorable, there is no dearth of lively youngsters in the world who do something unique to make these moments memorable forever. Something similar happened to a female news anchor while she was reading live news in the studio, when a TV reporter entered…
Taliban prevent 30 female students from going to UAE on scholarship; Photo: File bill to: The Taliban government prevented 30 female students who received scholarships to study in the UAE from going to the UAE on scholarship. According to the international news agency, 22-year-old student Laila told AFP that 30 students, including me, were sponsored…
Melbourne: A court sentenced the former principal of a Jewish community school in Melbourne, Australia, to 15 years in prison after being found guilty of sexually harassing two student sisters. According to the international media, according to the evidence submitted to the court, the 56-year-old former principal of Addas Israel School, Malika Lefer, studied at…
US President Joe Biden has announced that he will nominate a woman, Admiral Lisa Franchitti, to head the US Navy. With this nomination, Admiral Lisa Franchitti will be the first woman in US history to command the Navy and serve on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But it is unclear whether the Senate will also…
Photo courtesy of Instagram Everyone loves their favorite food and drink, but one British female chef has been missing out on something for years. According to foreign media, 31-year-old chef Loretta Harms was diagnosed in 2015 with a rare syndrome called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), which caused her to be unable to digest her food. According…
