Meadows says Gayle’s comments to reporter Mel McLaughlin are part of a pattern of behaviour that female sports journalists should not have to endure.
Read more here from the Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jan/05/fox-sports-journalist-neroli-meadows-unloads-chris-gayle
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Chris Gayle: Cricketer fined after tells female reporter, ‘Don’t blush, baby’
It’s the type of comment you might expect to hear in a 1970s nightclub — not on the sidelines of a professional sports match.
Read more here from CNN
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/05/sport/chris-gayle-sexism-fined/index.html?sr=fb
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In Israeli City of Haifa, a Liberal Arab Culture Blossoms
The bartender poured tall beers for two women who wandered in for an afternoon pint. Nearby, a 22-year-old woman with a partly shaved head and colorful tattoos sat alone, working on her Laptop. They were among the many coifed, pierced and tattooed women and men who populate a slice of Haifa’s social scene that resembles that of the well-heeled hipsters of Tel Aviv. But here the cool kids are Palestinians, and they have unfurled a self-consciously Arab milieu that is secular, feminist and gay-friendly.
Read more here from the New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/04/world/middleeast/in-israeli-city-of-haifa-a-liberal-palestinian-culture-blossoms.html?_r=0
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Why do women have a harder time sleeping than men?
Wage gap? Desire gap? Orgasm gap? Meet the latest member of the outcome-disparity club: the sleep gap. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, insomnia is more common in women than men — and experts believe there are a few specific reasons why this sad truth exists.
Read more here from CNN.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/04/health/women-sleep-less-than-men/index.html
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Endometriosis: A cause of menstrual pain
Up to ten percent of women of child-bearing age suffer from endometriosis, but many don’t know it. They think their menstrual pain and heavy periods are normal until they try to become pregnant — and don’t succeed.
Read more here.
http://dw.com/p/1HS9F