Japanese women have less clout in companies and politics than women in other advanced countries, the government said in a report that highlighted the need for steps to help women balance jobs and their personal lives.
From the 11th to 14th June 2007 ministers and delegates from 32 Commonwealth countries converged for the 8th Commonwealth Woman's Affairs Ministers Meeting (8WAMM) at the Speke Resort conference centre in Munyonyo,Kampala,Uganda.
Senior women from politics, trade unions and education meet to highlight Train to Gain pilot designed to help women obtain Level 3 qualifications.
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Vilma Espín, an idealistic socialite who fought alongside Fidel and Raúl Castro in the mountains of Cuba and later, as Raúl Castro’s wife, became a prominent advocate of women’s rights and a powerful member of the Cuban Communist Party, died Monday in Havana.
The Clinton family took a cue from the Soprano family on Tuesday, releasing an online video that spoofed the finale of the HBO drama and aimed at generating buzz — and money —for Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign.
The fight in combating violence against women has taken a new dimension in the North West Province.
Iran's former reformist president Mohammad Khatami Thursday vehemently denied breaking Islamic rules by shaking hands with women on a trip to Italy, amid growing condemnation from conservatives.
Setting quotas designed to have more women in politics and government may not have been the magic formula for more balanced political representation in many countries, but it has certainly been a key first step in many cases.
Native leaders and some premiers have gathered in western Newfoundland for the first national aboriginal women's summit in the hope of devising a long-term strategy to end a cruel cycle of poverty and violence.