- Laurie Penny: That's enough politeness – women need to rise up in anger--"The men who run the world have become too used to not being afraid. Let's make them afraid."
- 'Mademoiselle' Exits Official France--"In a memo addressed to state administrators across France, Prime Minister François Fillon ordered the honorific — akin to 'damsel' and the equivalent of 'miss' — banished from official forms and registries." NYT
- E.U. Considers Quotas for Women in Boardrooms NYT
- Saudi women no longer need male OK to vote or seek office
- Crisis looms for private schools in Saudi Arabia as 9,000 teachers quit--"A senior official at the Council of Saudi Chambers of Commerce and Industry said that many private schools fear losing more teachers in the near future following the recent decision of the Ministry of Education to hire 40,000 women teachers for government schools."
- Allowing women drivers in Saudi Arabia will be 'end of virginity'--"Allowing women drivers in Saudi Arabia will tempt them into sex, promote pornography and create more homosexuals, according to some conservative Muslim scholars."
- Saudi women push challenge to driving ban--"No laws prohibit women from driving, but conservative religious edicts have banned it and officials comply with those."
- Saudis and Female Olympians--"The controversy ahead of the summer Olympics in London is starting early as criticism grows over Saudi Arabia's decision not to take a female team to the games."
- Women only to work in Saudi Arabia lingerie shops
- Blast from the Past: Saudi court rejects divorce plea from EIGHT-year-old girl married to 58-year-old man
- Afghan woman is killed 'for giving birth to a girl'--"A woman in north-eastern Afghanistan has been arrested for allegedly strangling her daughter-in-law for giving birth to a third daughter."
- Afghan women trapped in tribal court system
- Afghan concern over 'guidelines for women'
- Women Expose Secret Genital Cutting Rite
- Egypt bans military's forced virginity tests
- In a Baghdad E.R., Women's Psychological Wounds Go Untreated NYT
- Extremist Jews prevent women from voting in Israel
- In Jerusalem, women are voiceless at a decidedly womanly event--"The controversial exclusion of women from various settings in Israel because of pressure from ultra-Orthodox Jewish leaders reached a new level this week with a major conference on gynecological advances that is permitting only males to address the audience."
- Israel police: A dozen extremist Jews attack woman hanging posters near Jerusalem
- Lechery, Immodesty and the Talmud: Ultra-Orthodox Jews and the Modesty Fight NYT
- The Growing Influence of the Ultra-Orthodox in Israel--"Veiled women, radical rabbis and gender segregation: Israel is facing a rise in the influence of ultra-Orthodox Jews."
- Canada: Face veils banned for citizenship oaths
- French businessman 'to pay all burqa fines'
- Australian Muslim women must show faces for identity checks under new law
- Cairo's 'hijab-free' zones trigger cries of hypocrisy--"In Cairo, the latest controversy centres on several high-end bars and restaurants that have recently declared themselves 'hijab-free zones,' refusing veiled women entry."
- Fireman Sam creator David Jones held over veil remark--It was claimed to be 'offensive'.
- 'Strict Muslim' raped four women at knifepoint to 'punish them for being on the streets at night'
- Shafia family found guilty of first degree murder in Canadian honour killing--A fatwa has been issued against honour killings, domestic violence, hatred of women.
- Sterilized by North Carolina, she felt raped once more--"Elaine Riddick was only 14 when the state decided that she was not capable of mothering children and quietly cauterized her fallopian tubes. The $50,000 now offered to her only makes her angrier." Emphasis mine.
