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It’s International Women’s Day: How women’s rights fared in the past year
By Victoria Bisset, Adela Suliman, and Naomi Schanen On March 8, 2024 LONDON — It’s International Women’s Day. U.N. Secretary General António Guterres has urged faster action to achieve gender equality, amid what he described as “a fierce backlash against women’s rights.” “Billions of women and girls face marginalization, injustice and discrimination, while the persistent…
Read MoreOrganised backlash unravels progress in women’s rights: research
By AFP On March 8, 2024 Conservative counter-campaigns are unravelling global advances in women’s rights, the latest “backlash” in a series dating to the 1980s, activists and experts warned ahead of International Women’s Day on Friday. Organised and politicised, the counter-movement unpicks abortion rights, fuels online hate and harassment and encourages domestic violence, researchers say.…
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Lightfoot and Martinez call for women to have reproductive health privacy in court records
By A.D. Quig On March 12, 2024 CHICAGO — With one week to go until the March 19 primary, Cook County Circuit Court Clerk Iris Martinez brought out former Mayor Lori Lightfoot to help her unveil a new push to redact and seal court records that mention a woman’s reproductive health, an event Martinez’s Democratic…
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When Companies Invest In Women, Everybody Wins
By Priya Krishnan On March 12, 2024 According the International Women’s Day website, the goal of the 2024 #InspireInclusion campaign is to “collectively forge a more inclusive world for women.” They want everyone to “imagine a gender equal world that is free of bias, stereotypes and discrimination, as well as diverse, equitable and inclusive.” While I…
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Stamping out police sexism: Sign up to our expert International Women’s Day panel event
By Lauren MacDougall On February 21, 2024 To mark International Women’s Day, The Independent is bringing together a panel of experts to discuss how police forces in the UK are tackling violence against women and attempting to stamp out institutionalised sexism. Three years on from the kidnap and murder of Sarah Everard by Met Police officer Wayne…
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Another executive at Japan’s top oil firm is fired for sexual harassment as #MeToo awareness grows
By the Associated Press On February 22, 2024 TOKYO — The head of a renewable energy subsidiary of Japan’s top oil company, Eneos Holdings, has been fired for sexual harassment, the companies announced Wednesday, as awareness of the #MeToo movement grows in the country. Japan Renewable Energy Corp. said in a statement it dismissed chairperson…
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LinkedIn Under Fire For Ageist Ads: Fails To Take Timely Action And Uphold DEI Policy
By Sheila Callaham Mar 8, 2024,08:03am EST LinkedIn members have been pushing back for months against the company’s release of two ageist ads that stereotype older people as unaware and uneducated in business and technology. The ads were released in November 2023, and members of the LinkedIn community have been calling for removal ever since,…
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3 Ways the Pandemic Left its Mark on law in the Workplace
BY DAN EATON MARCH 11, 2024 4:30 AM PT On March 19, 2020, Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered all Californians except those working in “federal critical infrastructure sectors” to stay home due to the COVID-19 emergency. Nearly four years later, COVID-19 is still with us, but pandemic-related government mandates mostly are gone. In my Aug. 3, 2020, column,…
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In Congo, Peace Means a Halt to ‘Brutal, Illegal Mining’
Peace laureate Pétronille Vaweka urges U.S. role to end worsening war over strategic minerals. By James Rupert On March 7, 2024 Pétronille Vaweka, a Congolese grandmother, has mediated local peace accords in her homeland’s wars. But now, she says, one of Africa’s longest, bloodiest conflicts can be solved only if the United States and other…
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