The willingness to accept spoon-fed versions of the truth has limited the role of women in Islam, writes Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
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President Jacob Zuma has come under fire for comments he made about Venda women.
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/ 8 November 2013
Undaunted by apartheid and Aids, she has made all the difference to those otherwise abandoned.
Police have detained a Saudi columnist who supported ending his country’s ban on women driving, says activists.
Attempts to sex up and spruce up feminism to make it more palatable takes away its reason to exist, writes Laurie Penny.
One of the journalists fired by the men’s magazine, FHM, for making light of rape on social media had called women "semen receptacles" before.
Anger on social media has only increased after two FHM writers, suspended after posting comments about corrective rape, wrote an apology letter.
Two writers at men’s magazine FHM have been suspended for making comments about correctional rape on Facebook.
The BBC commentator who denigrated tennis player Marion Bartoli is part of a wider culture, writes Tanya Gold.
An Australian women’s group has defended ousted prime minister Julia Gillard, saying she had battled "gross disrespect" while in office.
In an attempt to refute cries of sexism in the wake of a heated Parliamentary debate, the ANC has dug itself into a deeper hole.
Facebook has agreed to update policies in response to protests by more than 100 advocacy groups over content promoting violence against women.
A new site that uses social media to fight sexism and demand change is getting attention on a global scale.
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Leader of Australia Julia Gillard’s face is said to have turned to stone when partner Tim Mathieson made a bigoted joke at an official reception.
Important people make idiotic remarks all the time, but these are now so much easier to appreciate thanks to the viral power of social media.
Men may be outraged by bum-swatting incident but, for women, it’s all in a day’s sexual politics, says <b>Nicole Fritz</b>.
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/ 25 January 2011
Two of Britain’s leading football commentators were taken off the air after making sexist remarks off-microphone about two female match officials.
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/ 26 September 2010
The ANC Women’s League has labelled youth league leader Julius Malema’s past criticism of opposition leader Helen Zille as sexist.
The extent of racism and other discrimination in higher education institutions revealed in a report is disturbing, says Blade Nzimande.
Men in powerful positions are presumably erudite and savvy enough to know what is offensive behaviour.
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/ 25 September 2008
It is disappointing and hurts that African women are the subject of disparaging rage and hostility from fellow women, who, unwittingly, inflict pain.