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Who gets the money?
What can be done to give women’s career chances a boost? In this video, Deutsche Welle interviews Anke Domscheit-Berg, the founder of fempower.me, a consultancy firm that helps companies increase the number of women in management.
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Reserved and a little laid-back
Ronaq Zahoor is from Sopore in Indian-administered Kashmir
“I was born and brought up in Sopore, 50 kilometers from Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir. I am reserved, a little laid-back and an abstract thinker.”
Ronaq Zahoor, the latest addition to the Women Talk Online team, talks about her life in Kashmir, the conflict, the dangers and her love for writing.
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Calling eager bloggers!
Most times, it’s about being fat, maybe too fat, as in the case of Holley Mangold, the US weightlifter who tips the scales at 157 kilograms and has been constantly suffering jibes about her ‘obvious’ weight problem. But what is your take on the connection between how you look and what you achieve?
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Announcing the winner of the blog contest
Dear readers, thank you very much for the enthusiastic response we received for our blog competition announced in June. It was very exciting to know what you think about education and the kind of experiences you have had at school.
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Editorial: “To dress or to undress?”
"Slutwalk" programmes are an attempt to sensitize men towards their female contemporaries
Sherlyn Chopra is the first Indian woman to feature in Playboy. The Indian media is choc-a-bloc with news about the model, her life and challenges, the hardships she faced and the accolades she won after she was chosen to “decorate” the pages of Playboy. The media in India obviously knows that this will generate a lot of interest, and it has. Until now, Indian newspapers and magazines have been trying to create the impression that they are simply presenting the “facts” as they are. Strangely enough, in a country which has seen a couple of shocking incidents of crime against women in the past few weeks, nobody has commented on the social impact of Sherlyn’s “contribution” to Playboy or that of other scantily clad stars.
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