Healthcare is failing women

A study by Interpol estimates that, in South Africa, a woman is raped every 17 seconds and one in four South African women suffers domestic violence.
6 comment(s)

---

Aids fight falters as funds dry up

The great news this past year is that now scientists have tentatively offered us a way to end Aids.
0 comment(s)

---

One plus one must make two

A lack of women in China means an estimated 30-million to 50-million men will be without a wife in 20 years.
1 comment(s)

---

Julian Assange: From hero to chauvinist pig

The Swedish view of Julian Assange has changed in a year from the James Bond of the internet to a paranoid chauvinist pig.
23 comment(s)

---

Men take a battering too

An organisation is being set up to combat the 'hidden crime' of battered men.
4 comment(s)

---

Media's gender apartheid

Outgoing JSE chief executive Russell Loubser's recent slapping of a female M&G reporter's behind at a press conference serves as a metaphor.
1 comment(s)

---

Fighting sexism -- my way

Men may be outraged by bum-swatting incident but, for women, it’s all in a day's sexual politics, says Nicole Fritz.
0 comment(s)

---

Big in Korea

Staying thin in South Korea is something of a national fixation, says Eamon Allan.
1 comment(s)

---

Prejudice peddled as tradition

Very few of the LGBT people and their supporters who celebrated Pride month recently could have known of an attack on their constitutional freedoms.
0 comment(s)

---

Feminists slut their stuff

The fact that they are scantily clad is precisely the point of the protest.
3 comments

---

Africa heads gay backlash

Gay rights in Africa are in the spotlight again after the arrest of two men in Cameroon, allegedly for "looking feminine".
11 comments

---

Dawkins, Watson and the elevator ride

This is the story of how what could have been an intelligent debate about sexism descended into a free for all, name-calling brawl.
55 comments

---

Children should be heard

President Jacob Zuma ended the Cabinet lekgotla by calling on government leadership to play an active role in public-participation programmes.
0 comments

---

Hair dos and don'ts

Women who wear an Afro or dreadlocks sometimes sneer at me, telling me they feel "liberated" by their natural hair, says Ayanda Sitole.
3 comments

---

TOPICS IN THIS SECTION

---

Advertisements

---