POSTED BY Jane Osmond IN Featured ON Jul 25, 2014 | 0 comments

Volunteer writers wanted

We are looking for volunteer writers to join our team. INTERESTED? Contact us at: editor@womensviewsonnews.org We welcome applications from all: the only criteria is that you have an interest in news and want to write exclusively about women. Our writers usually have some experience, but if you have excellent English grammar and an eye for detail we can train you up. You must, however, have internet access and the ability to work remotely (e.g. from home) and some or all of the...

POSTED BY Ruby Guyatt IN Featured, Media Spotlight ON Jul 4, 2014 | 0 comments

Change the labels media give women

Stop trivialising women’s achievements. The vice-president of Facebook in Europe has hit out at the words the media use in their portrayal of successful women. Speaking at a conference in London recently, Nicola Mendelsohn urged the media to change the language it uses to talk about women in business. “When I got my post at Facebook it was all about how I was a mother-of-four who had ‘won’ the position, alongside pictures of my wedding.” Mendelsohn said that the...

POSTED BY Sue Tapply IN Campaigns, Featured ON Sep 18, 2013 | 0 comments

Counting dead women

Karen Ingala Smith highlights the reality of cultural femicide. Many people know the statistic: ‘two women in England and Wales a week are killed through domestic violence’; but how many try to connect with that and to feel the impact of what it really means? In the first three days of January 2012, seven women in the UK were murdered by men: three were shot, two were strangled, one was stabbed and one was killed by fifteen blunt force trauma injuries. As a result, Karen Ingala...