Women's Views on News

Rachel Salmon WVoN co-editor They are part of the largest migration in human history. Young women are pouring into China’s cities from the countryside and powering the race towards industrialisation. And in her book Factory Girls, Leslie T Chang finds out what drives them. Twenty-five years ago, the idea of a young women ‘going out’, leaving [...]

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Meg Kissack WVoN co-editor  PETA adverts have already been accused of vilifying women’s pubic hair (see WVoN story), but have now taken their sexist marketing one step further and are advocating violence against women in their latest advert. If you haven’t seen it already – it’s fast making its way around social network sites – [...]

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Sarah Cheverton WVoN co-editor The Islington Tribune reported this week that advisers from the Iranian and Kurdish Women’s Rights Organisation (IKWRO) are concerned that non-English-speaking women were being denied places in North London refuges. Refuges confirmed that they can no longer afford translation services due to the cuts and are being forced to refuse women [...]

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Sarah Cheverton WVoN co-editor The World Bank’s World Development Report 2012 is the first ever devoted to the issue of gender equality. But does it go far enough to challenge the more complex – and controversial – issues impeding global gender justice? Fundamentally, the report holds that gender equality is “smart economics” – making a [...]

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Jane Osmond WVoN co-editor When I began writing for Women’s Views on News nearly two years ago, I realised that I needed to plug myself into cyberspace to source relevant stories about women. What I found was an active ‘feminist blogosphere’ featuring thousands of women all over the world writing about their experiences of being [...]

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Sarah Cheverton, WVoN co-editor Firstly, I have to ‘fess up. Until today, I had never heard of Ann Coulter. Apparently, she’s an American social and political commentator – although commentator here really just means, ‘someone who says things’. Which Coulter definitely does. According to Wikipedia, Coulter is “well-known for her conservative political opinions and the [...]

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Jane Osmond, WVoN co-editor Regular readers of Women’s Views on News will remember our recent Facebook Rape Campaign which resulted in Facebook having to remove a particular page that advocated rape against women through the use of ‘rape jokes.’ The campaign, which went global, started last October and ended in November with the removal of [...]

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Rachel Salmon WVoN co-editor  Rumana Hashem  is one of a group of campaigners successfully fighting plans by a British company to dig a massive open cast mine on prime agricultural land in north western Bangladesh, which could displace nearly a quarter of a million people. I spoke to her recently about the campaign and how she became [...]

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Meg Kissack WVoN co-editor  I was walking back from a lecture today and I received this text message: From West Mercia Service ATTENTION ALL GIRLS AND LADIES: if you walk from home, school, office or anywhere and you are alone and come across a little boy holding a piece of paper with an address on [...]

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Jane Osmond WVoN co-editor BBC News recently ran a piece about a protest planned against a ‘Miss Undergraduate’ event which is to take place at the University of Birmingham in February 2012. The qualifying event featured the wearing of ball gowns, rather than swim suits, and was open to all undergraduate women of all ages, [...]

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