Women's Views on News

Emma Caddow WVoN co-editor  An interactive advertisment on a bus stop in London’s busy Oxford Street has been designed so it can only be watched by women. The advert, which is being trialled for two weeks on a bus stop in front of Selfridges department store, is part of the children’s charity Plan UK‘s Because [...]

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Katie McQuater WVoN co-editor  Women across generations are willing and eager to provide financial support to their family members, whilst also maintaining a strong desire for self-reliance, a US study has revealed. The findings from the MetLife Mature Market Institute study are based on the responses of 1,060 women aged between 21-65 years old across [...]

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Emma Caddow WVoN co-editor  Last November, UK prime minister David Cameron announced he was appointing a female adviser. Her job spec: to assess how government policies would impact women. Now, we don’t want to state the glaringly obvious, but shouldn’t the government already be doing this? And shouldn’t it have enough female input within its [...]

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Katie McQuater WVoN co-editor  The rapid growth of virtual ‘pin board’ social networking site Pinterest has been documented in the media recently, its success attributed to its popularity among women. Around 80% of the site’s US users are female, although the UK has more male users. Pinterest was founded as a gender-neutral platform for people [...]

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Julie Tomlin WVoN co-editor Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin remained in Syria because she was determined the terrible story of events there had to be told. Colvin had hoped to moderate a discussion that is taking place on the growing crisis in Syria at the Frontline Club in London this Friday. On Sunday she wrote in [...]

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Ellie Watmuff WVoN co-editor One of India’s most outspoken cabinet members, Jairam Ramesh, the Minister for Rural Development, caused controversy on Friday by declaring that women in the country are increasingly demanding mobile phones, but “not demanding toilets”. His sensationalist comments formed part of a speech about sanitation, which he delivered in New Delhi at [...]

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Every day we’ll post up a number of story links that we think are interesting. They won’t necessarily be from that day, but usually will not be more than a few days old. The following are the ones we’ve found today. Story links: Is the fight against childhood obesity creating eating disorders, Time Ideas, February [...]

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Ellie Watmuff WVoN co-editor Parts of the South African city of Johannesburg came to a standstill on Friday over a mass debate on miniskirts. The Women’s League arm of the governing African National Congress (ANCWL) led a march against gender-based violence to the High Court, in protest at the treatment of two women who were [...]

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Ilona Lo Iacono WVoN co-editor  Many Italian feminists have long been concerned that the anti-Berlusconi protests organised by the women’s organisation “if not now, when?” were divisive, and drew the focus away from the real problems women faced. “Women are mortified by the female unemployment data, the salaries and the career perspectives, the precarious jobs … not by the [...]

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Ilona Lo Iacono WVoN co-editor  For the people of Vietnam, January 23 marked the beginning of the Year of the Golden Dragon (Nham Thin). This year is thought to be the most auspicious of the 60-year zodiac cycle for the birth of a child, especially if the child is a boy. Many couples will resort [...]

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