Category: women

South Australian MP Calls for Greater Online Protection for Women

Federal Member for Boothby, South Australia, Nicolle Flint, is urging the Australian Government to extend proposed legislation which will unmask online trolls and abusers to include additional protections for women. In a 60-page submission to the Select Committee on Social Media and Online Safety, Flint presented evidence of social media and online abuse of women…


Transgender Woman’s Wins ‘Should Not Come at Our Expense’: UPenn Women Swimmers

A transgender woman should not be allowed to compete with biological women because the person would hold “an unfair advantage over the competition in the women’s category,” a group said Thursday. The group, which includes 16 members of the University of Pennsylvania women’s swimming team and their family members, issued a letter to the university…


Why Are Women Holding Back?

Commentary Lockdowns and quarantines in 2020 had a disproportionate impact on women. Though some saw bias, the main problem was that services suffered most in that environment, and women dominate employment in this area. Now the post-pandemic recovery has disproportionately benefited services and presumably women’s employment prospects, but many who had worked before the pandemic…


Former Federal NDP Leader Alexa McDonough Dies at 77

HALIFAX—Former federal NDP leader Alexa McDonough, a political trailblazer who paved the way for women in politics, died Saturday in Halifax at the age of 77. Her family confirmed McDonough’s death after a lengthy struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. McDonough became the first woman to head up a major political party in Canada when she was…


Divinely Inspired Traditional Feminism: God-Gifted Roles for Females Are Timeless

Gender roles have been honored throughout the ages in all cultures as God-given roles until socialism and communism sneaked their way into free societies, labeling traditional families as “comfortable concentration camps” for women. The importance of the divine, as well as the family, has been pushed out in the bible of leftist feminist tradition, as…


Australia’s Northern Territory Government Pledges $7.5 Million for New Domestic Violence Crisis Facility

The Northern Territory (NT) government will spend $7.5 million (US$5.4 million) over five years on a new accommodation centre in Palmerston, about 20km from Darwin, which will provide critical support to women and children fleeing domestic violence. In a media release on Thursday, Minister for Families and Urban Housing Kate Worden said the government funding…


Women Left US Workforce Last Month, but in Fewer Numbers Than a Year Ago

The job market recovery for U.S. women faced a setback in September, much as it did about a year ago after many school districts switched to online learning. But the drop-off in the number of women working or looking for a job last month was much smaller than in 2020 as more schools reopened this…


‘Bodies With Vaginas’ and the Woke Dehumanization of Women

Commentary In the “Dune” series of science fiction novels, biotechnologists manufacture clones in breeding contraptions called “axlotl tanks.” Readers eventually learn that these “tanks” are the uteruses of unconscious lobotomized women—motherhood reduced to the status of gestating vats with the female victims of this despotism dehumanized by a lexicon that eradicates their humanity. Thankfully, in…


Taliban: Women Can Study in Gender-Segregated Universities

KABUL, Afghanistan—Women in Afghanistan can continue to study in universities, including at post-graduate levels, but classrooms will be gender-segregated and Islamic dress is compulsory, the higher education minister for the ruling Taliban terrorist group said Sunday. The minister, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, laid out the new policies at a news conference, several days after Afghanistan’s new…


Report: Taliban Has Banned Women’s Sports in Afghanistan

SYDNEY—Australia’s SBS TV has quoted a Taliban spokesperson as saying that women’s sports—and women’s cricket specifically—will be banned by his group in Afghanistan. “In cricket, they might face a situation where their face and body will not be covered. Islam does not allow women to be seen like this,” the network quoted Ahmadullah Wasiq, the…